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...so i've noticed a LOT of threads have been closed down lately. some deservedly so, some...not so much. a couple specific threads i noticed were the "advice for-from all" thread and the "guys in the clarinet section" thread. o.O i don't understand how "advice for and from everyone" belongs in the trumpet sticky...this man said that yes, he specifically played trumpet, but he wasn't looking for a trumpet skill. he was asking how to circular breathe(which i will point out ALL musicians can do, even percussionists/pianists/etc... if they wanted to). He also said he could help anyone out with double/triple tonguing...(which i will firmly state that woodwinds, as well as brass can do. i know, i've done it and was required to do so for a few songs i had to play during the school year..and i play clarinet and sax). he was inviting all people to give or ask for ANY general or specific advice. not just trumpets.

the "guys in the clarinet" thread...i'm not sure the closer of this thread really read the entire thing to fully understand what was being said in there. yes, it could have been closed do to the "clarinet" specificness, but i feel i must clear the air, so to speak. the post mentioned that we shouldn't "segregate genders" when no one was doing that at all. in fact, it was just the opposite. that thread was put there by the author to make known his dislike at gender selected instruments. he thought it shouldn't matter if you were a girl or boy. the rest of the discussion following was mostly logical response to this.

can i get any clarification on why suddenly so many threads are being closed? as opposed to how many were being closed in the recent past.

thank you for a logical explanation, i really appreciate it. a lot of what you said makes sense, but at the same time, that same logic is kind of working against you. now you have many locked threads on the very first page, which is what most people look at. they don't really have their own queries that they need to make a whole new thread, but there is nothing for them to post on if they have any knowledge that could be pertinent. another solution could be(if this is possible, i have no knowledge of what mods can and can't do to alter threads) change the thread title to something more all encompassing. that way, the threads aren't locked so people can still post and communicate and at the same time you're getting rid of the specifics. or, again if possible, you could delete the thread entirely. that would leave space and get rid of a page of locked threads, which is what seems to be happening. it would also show members more relevant threads that are being hidden on pages that they haven't ventured into yet.

that would explain the sudden activity, thanks. also thank you for fully explain the reason they are being locked instead of closed. although i know it is against the rules to "re-make" a thread that already exists, sometimes it takes a very long time to find that thread. some people, myself included, don't spend that kind of time searching through all the pages of what has now become irrelevant information in the hopes that they MIGHT find what they were looking for. sometimes people need a quick fix. some people are posting just because they think it's unlikely that someone has answered specifically what they need answered, with some topics..this makes it easier to continue discussion, in older topics that have disappeared from misuse it might be hard to continue where everyone left off, in which case you would need to start the conversation over with a new question anyway.

a suggestion for letting people know what they did wrong with their threads could be making a "recently closed threads" sticky or announcement on the main forum. this way people could check here to see if their vanished thread has been deleted. you could also give a 2-3 word reason as to why the thread was closed. this is optional, of course, if you want to take the extra time and effort.

yeah, i've noticed that you guys post the reason it was locked. that suggestion was purely circumstantial, assuming you followed the first suggestion of deleting, instead of locking. that way people would still know why their thread was shut down, but there wouldn't be an excess of unusable threads sitting on the front page.