This must be a glitch of some sort...I'll tell Hankers, I.D. and Jafo.

It's a site issue. The posts show as locked when checking through "My Posts" but are not locked when selecting the post normally through the forums.

Uvah...it's a site issue. The posts are only locked if you go through "My posts"...mine aren't, but, if you go through the Forums, the posts aren't locked.

Hope it gets fixed for you all. I can go back to 2008 and all mine are available. 

Just curious. If you mouse over where the icon or logo would be on the left side it says locked post. However have you tried to mouseover anything to the right of where it says locked post? ? It all works.

All of mine from Oct 3, 2014 and back are locked too. Doesn't really matter to me though, if a post is over a year old and no one has posted on it in a year or more, it should just be deleted in my opinion. Might save a LOT of database space.

I guess it would save on nekrothreads....still.....seems kinda.....harsh

Auto-closing of threads whose last response was over 12 months old is actually a plus.  All too frequently old issues with the sites/forums/software are 'revived' when they are no longer relevant....and thus redundant.  The poster is under the impression the issue is current without referencing/realizing their antiquity.

If a thread were considered historically significant Admins can reset/unlock them.

Spam-bots trawl for suitable 'phrases' on which to respond/post.  In fact one of Island Dog's long-since hidden was still being hit on a weekly basis.  Locking them cures that...

Makes sense considering the necro threads seen of late.