So what's the reason for preemptively locking the thread, and THEN having the discussion about whether to move it etc?
A thoughtful way to approach this would be to have a post linking out to a discussion like this, leaving the thread open and a timeout (maybe) on locking.
If you open a discussion, 90% of users participating in such thread would vote "no" and while discussion is ongoing, spam would be increasing. Threads like this are locked to prevent "spam." Ongoing discussion threads are rarely locked by mods unless there is lots of spamming.