I know have been on the forum for a while yeah sure do know that but that doesn't mean am not permitted to ask questions to what I definitely dont have idea about, so they say we learn new things every day and also there is this parable that says: those who asked questions when arrived at a strange place: (DONT MISS THERE WAY or DON'T GET LOST) so I took this medium to ask this quick question:
1. Where do the topics go? after a Minute I set my eyes on it and I come back again to check for that topic I won't find it
2. Who has access to locked topics in the forum apart from the creator of that topic?
There are chances that it might be deleted if lock by the moderators if the topic was locked it might not be deleted it will not be lost.
But as so many topics also created in the section the locked topic will not get bump since it is already locked so it will just be pushed on the last page or somewhere in the ending pages.
The OP could lock his topic or the mods.