Thread locking policies?

[shanen]

Probably posted somewhere, but I couldn't find it. URL?

Situation is that I found a thread quite similar to my problem, but it's locked without answer. I had some additional data, but...

 

[Cobalt006]

It may have been locked due to the nature of it. Depending on what it was about.

 

[shanen]

It was about USB booting to an old computer, a ThinkPad X30. The discussion from a couple of years ago was similar to what I was doing last week, though my approach involves YUMI. Mostly I wanted to ask if it had ever been solved, because it was left dangling there, but if I get a solution when I return to the problem (probably not until two weeks from now), then I would have been glad to share it...

 

[cliffordcooley]

Old threads do get locked to prevent necro-bumping (aka: resurrecting old threads). Which is what you are looking to do.

What you could do is start a new thread and link back to the original thread of interest. Then post your issue and request help finding a solution.

There has also been threads locked because for instance specific words in the thread attracts spammers. Therefor locking the thread could result in less work for site staff.