Now I've noticed some inconsistencies between bug reports in the
PC Bug Reports subforum being locked, or otherwise being moved to
General Mod Discussion (and even both, in one exclusive case). Now I know it's really none of my business, but as this is what this thread is for, I'm going to put it to some use and give my personal insights.
My suggestion would be to favour moving over locking. Wouldn't be a true Kazzymodus-style argumentation without bullet points, so I got that covered.
- Members can just make a new thread in the General Mod discussions after their old one is closed. Simply moving an already existing thread, complete with any information and posts from other members it may or may not already contain, saves time and effort for the one with the issue and the ones with potential solutions.
- Alternatively, if people decide not to remake the thread, then the issue may not ever get solved, and in a worst case scenario, never discovered and subsequently fixed by the mod creator (which, considering many people use a lot of mods at the same time making issues difficult to track to the source, is already an issue). Meaning that in time, someone who failed to find said thread through the search function (or, y'know, just failed to find the search function) could make a duplicate thread, perhaps even in the PC Bug Report subforum again. Once again, moving would save everyone a lot of time in such a case, including the staff.
- It keeps the Bug Reports forum free of clutter. Yes, I know, that means it clutters the General Mod Discussion instead, but considering that TCF is Re-Logics prime source of bug reports one could (and in my case, does) argue that it's slightly more important.