Could we please know if a thread is locked without opening it?

Claudio,

I completely agree with you. In the by-gone, olden-days of the Adobe forum, there was that little Lock icon that you mention. It is missed and I'd cast my vote to bring it back.

It was a great "touchstone" for sub-fora, like FAQ's, as newer users could easily see that ALL threads were Locked, and could quickly get the idea that they should only be reading, and not posting there - not even comments on the FAQ articles.

I'd actually take things a bit farther and have sub-fora, like the FAQ's locked at the main page level, with only the MOD's being able to post there. Stickies are seldom seen. If a user, such as myself, needs/wants to post to the FAQ page, then a PM to the MOD's should do the trick.

I am also in agreement on the speed of the fora and how frustrating it is to hit a "deadend," and have to Back, or otherwise navigate out of it. Any help in keeping our experiences pleasant and expedient would be appreciated, and I would hope that more could be done in that regard.

Good point,

Hunt

Didn't a mod once say something to the effect of this Jiveware not supporting such a basic, trivial, common sense, and helpful feature?  For a short while I think topics were being changed to say [locked] in front but I assume it gets time consuming when you're busy locking so many of them.

Just another Jive flaw to add to the list.

A response to a politely asked question is always nice but I suspect the response won't be happy news anyway.

Claudio González wrote: Navigation in these forums is very slow even when everything is working as planned, so it's very annoying to have to open a thread to find that it has been locked. The icon of a lock, even [Locked] at the beginning of the thread title would be enough. Surely it cannot be too difficult?

I think this is a perfectly valid and politely formulated question/suggestion, so I expected at least an answer. Not only it hasn't been answered, but we continue having threads locked without any indication in their titles.

I also notice that we continue reading new posters giving users directions on what to do and how to do it, while some moderators openly and repeatedly recognize that the software used for these forums in notoriously defective, and explain why we cannot expect the many reported problems to be solved in a near future.

I am disappointed.

Message was edited by: Claudio González. Reason: I had to add here a comment that I couldn't post in the obvious thread because it had been locked.

There has been a locked icon before. I have seen it. I have seen it a few times here and there but not no more (as you pointed out of course).