I just created a new topic in Hot Deals and can't edit it

[Muse]

Title is "What search engines do you use to find Hot Deals?"

I couldn't edit it and I opened a new page, went to the topic and it's locked. What's up with this? TIA

Edit: Oooo... are you folks having trouble with your software? What's that stuff about "FONT"????

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Thread unlocked and moved to Off Topic.

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[minendo]

I couldn't edit it and I opened a new page, went to the topic and it's locked. What's up with this?

I would venture to guess that it was locked since it is not a hot deal.

 

[Lord Evermore]

The font face stuff seems to be that you tried to use a special font when you pasted in. Locked posts can't be edited.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
The font face stuff seems to be that you tried to use a special font when you pasted in. Locked posts can't be edited.

I didn't do anything out of the ordinary in posting. I've posted around 2000 posts on Anandtech Forums and never seen that. It's just screwy and nothing I could do would make it go away. I assume it's a glitch in the software.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: minendo

I couldn't edit it and I opened a new page, went to the topic and it's locked. What's up with this?

I would venture to guess that it was locked since it is not a hot deal.

Not every post in my experience in Hot Deals is a "hot deal". Some are related topics and to my mind it's stupid to restrict the topics to the extent that you can't post interesting closely related topics. Just whether or not a certain topic is appropriate enough to belong in the Hot Deals Forum is a judgment call on a case by case basis. That I can understand. However this topic is totally on topic and to see someone jump on it in less than a minute and lock it is scary and points up an anal attitude on at least one moderator's part. My opinion.