The last comment about locking is what happened later to our ~last~ thread. They aren't upset at us.... but good to keep them happy.
Thank you.What I was just demonstrating is what happens when we have to remove a comment on a thread that has several thousands of replies.
I just removed the two replies before this post here, and that is what caused that slowdown.
Some seem to think we just locked that other thread for the fun of it. No, there is a glitch with removing replies on threads that are that big. And considering that this thread had been attracting some trolls, and attracting some returning bannees, and had some flamewars occasionally erupting, we couldn't continually bring the site to a standstill to clean things up.
That is why it was locked.
As for why the Hobbit Hole thread has not had such a fate, simply put, it hasn't required us to remove many comments. We'll probably have to lock it soon. I only hope that me explaining this will not cause some to go and post crap on it in an effort to get it locked.
Thanks for your help in the demonstration. LM