> If accurate I must be unlucky to hit so many locked questions. Well, there's another possibility... A lot of those 200 locked posts were created when Stack O

> If accurate I must be unlucky to hit so many locked questions. Well, there's another possibility... A lot of those 200 locked posts were created when Stack Overflow was still very young, and are quite popular - they're locked because they turned into discussions or polls and are pretty much played out when it comes to getting anything answered, but keeping them around preserves whatever value made them popular. It's hardly surprising that you might stumble onto a few of the more popular posts regularly - there are a lot of links out there to some of them. It's pretty safe to say that something like this - http://stackoverflow.com/q/686216/ http://stackoverflow.com/q/686216/ - doesn't need more answers, and doesn't need to be repeated. But it's there, locked, in the archive for those who want to refer back to it.