Why was the other topic closed?
(As someone not involved in moderating either thread until now)
Because different mods caught it each time and it was a marginal call that could have gone either way and the mods that caught it the second time didn't think to do a check to see if it had previously been locked and since it's a low-controversy low-impact moderation discussion we didn't all sit down and hash out the major ramifications of such a dramatic and decisive action as locking a low-content thread.
When this kind of thing happens, it's almost always one of the following things:
- Mods saw one thread and not the other
- Different mods saw one thread and the other and made slightly different judgment calls
- The thread was a marginal case that could have went either way and moderation involves discretion
- In many cases, although not this case, the people pointing out the "different treatment" don't realize that the threads were in fact different and the reason they're being treated differently is because they're not the same
No great conspiracy.
And with that, and looking at the deleted thread derails and console war bans in this thread, we will be correcting this discrepancy by locking this thread