I think when a thread boils down to two people kicking a can back and forth, it begins to lose its signal-to-noise ratio. I'm certain the thread was locked because it became obvious to everyone that a feature suggestion was no longer being discussed and the general chatter had no end in sight.
What's worse, the two of you weren't even disagreeing with each other, but simply bashing a non-existant paperclip who wasn't present to defend himself. Sometimes people subconciously have to get the last reply in, and locking the thread breaks that cycle. This should have been pretty self evident.
- Raccoon
