Alright, I follow... though I don't think we would need to make it read only, nor would I want to. I think with proper tags we can keep it "Post-Allowed" or whatever it is.

Or, is your idea to make it read only and then have some main discussion thread somewhere else? I don't know how that would work quite frankly.

And again I ask... see merit on the other idea of merging threads as explained in the post above yours?