Originally Posted by Janszoon

Personally I'm not comfortable with locking it and effectively silencing all conversation about the loss of a member of our community. If the comments get too far off topic they can always be deleted, but completely shutting down any conversation seems to me to be extremely disrespectful to both Howard's memory—as a guy who certainly enjoyed the "banter" aspect of this place—and to other members who maybe haven't logged in for a while and are unaware of what has happened.