OK let me play Devil's advocate because I could hardly care if it stayed open or not but I could somewhat understand why it would be locked.
Most of the members of this site is typically a fanboy by nature and as different as our opinions in many subjects maybe, we still all share a similarity in taste, such as cars, jets, anime and most likely, girls that carry huge swords or guns. While a thread about Milla Jovovich maybe tolerated, I doubt you can get away with starting a thread about someone like say, Hillary Duff or the Olsen Twins. If you think about it, with Japan's obsession with underaged sexed-up starlets, you could argue that this type of thread would be a related subject. But I doubt the site wants to attract that type of people that would enjoy this type of discussion. It may be that on the same note, if a Rainbow Brite was left open, then soon we'll see threads based on the Smurfs, the Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake(worst case scenario) and if any of these were locked then the person that opened them would cry out about why it was locked when it was totally OK for the Rainbow Brite to be left open and die out on it's own.
I don't know if that's close enough to a fair answer that you may be looking for Jem, but that's the only sense I could make out of it.
And yes, I'm probably the most guilty for fanning the Milla type discussion... but read my sig, I'm self admittedly shallow...
Good luck Jem.
>EXO