But it can be disrespectful, especially if someone puts a lot of thought into a thread and other's decide to just start requesting locks.
Let's see: what are the threads that people usually ask for locks?
1: Anti-cheat, which is easy to suggest, and a no-brainer as well.
2: Answered threads which isn't rude at all to ask for a lock.
3: Extremely Rude threads that break the rules which I don't mind asking for a lock as that person was rude anyways.
4: Suggestions that are already being worked on which is probably something that might take some effort so I understand if you think it's rude for this.
5: Reports, which doesn't take a long time.
6: advertising threads-those need staff attention and even if it does "revive" it, it gets removed ASAP so those fine in my opinion.
7: threads that accidentally break rules which may take some time to think about, but for most part, most of them are questions or requests for updates.
8: threads that have to do with like "most favorite blah blah blah that include people"
If you think that asking for one is rude, let's go through each one again.
1: Asking for locks aren't really that rude TBH. Most people are informing them that they already are creating one. Most people will understand and not be unhappy knowing that there's hope.
2: How is it rude to ask for a lock on an answered thread?
3: Those should be locked ASAP or edited. I would think that it would be a good idea to get that to staff attention. Plus, it kinda feels like Karma for those sort of threads.
4: I think that asking for a lock for these threads may actually be somewhat rude, mostly because some of those things take some time to think up.
5: I mean most of the reports are screenshots anyways and since it won't be accepted anyways, it won't matter.
6: N/A (bots don't have feelings)
7: Quite rude for this situation. No further questions asked.
8: Also rude. In fact, I never see any "competition" for this as what staff say. That should be left to staff and I completely disagree with locks on that one.
Yeah everything can be counted as "rude."
If you think that you should be able to handle being called a noob, etc people should be able to do the exact same with this.