I know sometimes mods lock threads at their own discression, especially at boards where they are a local moderator.
Not at their own discretion though.... that's like saying they're responsible for adjudicating what should,and what shouldn't be posted. We've got rules already; so basically, the moderators are only there to blur out/control incessant posting.
I just think it would be a nice courtesy if mods would just add a post before locking a topic to justify why they felt it should be locked
Is this really necessary?? Ofcourse, when a post is deleted, a user gets notified through PMS for the possible reasons that happened. The same case would imply when it's locked by the MODs.
Look, you have no idea how much time and energy it takes to manually run the forum. Why not avoid tryna make their job more strenuous?