I had previously posted suggesting to rename Lock to Archive. I apologise, this feature is
not needed at all. It should only be needed where a discussion is quite permanently closed
per policy (such as a past request for permissions). In this case, such thread should be
simply protected using the standard page protection tools available to sysops.
I worked out some more suggestions here:
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_moderation_in_Flow
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svetlana