I'm not entirely understanding your analogy there...from my experience, when your puppy does something bad, you tell it off so it understands what it's done, not lock it away in the dark with no explanation.
I mean, from what i can see, all that's happened is a bit a of muppetry and then suddenly, blam, thread lock. If this was to happen with every thread that had a bit of muppetry in it, then half the threads on the .org would be locked.
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