New Locked comments

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/pfroqg/new_locked_comments/

created by [deleted] on 01/09/2021 at 11:10 UTC

24 upvotes, 5 top-level comments (showing 5)

All of a sudden if an OP responds within their own post, the comments are getting locked. I started noticing it last night and now it’s very prevalent across varying subs. So you leave a comment, they respond, but then you can’t respond again because their comments are locked. Why is this happening now?

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Comment by AutoModerator at 01/09/2021 at 11:10 UTC

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Comment by [deleted] at 01/09/2021 at 11:16 UTC

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Appears to be a glitch/bug affecting the whole site. It shouldn't typically happen unless mods set the content to locked.

Comment by llamageddon01 at 01/09/2021 at 11:13 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

The best we can fathom out is that it’s yet another of Reddit’s increasingly frequent and annoying glitches. We are seeing more and more reports of this but have yet to see any kind of official acknowledgment or explanation, unfortunately.

The moment we know anything concrete, we’ll put it here but for the moment I’m afraid we’re just as bemused about this as you are :/

Comment by [deleted] at 01/09/2021 at 15:50 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I noticed that last night on r/tipofmytongue and wondered why the mods would do that

Comment by Truth_Speaker_4 at 02/09/2021 at 16:46 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I know some mods might lock or delete comments if they've been hit by a spam bot but it's late & they need to go to sleep.