Locking threads - Dangerous grounds

[IWIK]

Competitive Response: Limited Time Offer for Freedom Mobile thread was recently locked by @Jeremy_M on the grounds of keeping it "easier and searchable" while still saying "Great conversations going on in this post"

Call me a conspiracy theorist but I suspect this has everything to do with the poor response this was receiving from the current community and nothing to do with "searchability" (whatever that is) although I'm sure it does make things easier for the PM team.

Public Mobile, please, I love you and you're doing great things here but resist the temptation to censor your greatest supporters! You know you will obviously take a ton of flak for making a promotion that rewards some people and excludes people that have been here, growing this community WITH you!

Remember who keeps your community (which is what separates PM from other providers) alive and well.

I tell people to check out PM, and will continue to do so. Even though I don't know anyone on Freedom Mobile.  

[David_J]

 Moving this to 'thinking about it' as there are I think there are good ideas here - like the RFD summary and the general concept of being careful locking threads vs. enabling searchability within the Community.