User blog comment:Aokpisze/Timeline of the MB's, 2009-Present/@comment-3003185-20120517213840

And you know what I don't get?? It used to be, whenever the owner of a topic asked for the topic to be locked, it would be locked, unless others protested greatly.

Now, it's, the topic "belongs to everybody," and everybody needs to agree to lock it.

That's just plain unfair. Let's say that the owner of the topic doesn't want anybody to argue in the topic anymore, or the topic has worn out its usefulness; the owner should be able to request it to be locked, especially if there's only one other user (who doesn't agree with the topic owner).