I said this already many times but they wont change it .. i also posted about the locked threads in here before. As a general rule, never ever deal with any newbies on locked threads.

Its not only that, but its simply too easy for them to scam around here cause people usually act after being scammed and even defend potential scammers cause they have no "screenshots" .. but in the end, basically all accusations become true and looking at the history of this board especially, or lets say, just a 6 months period ... how many of the accused turned out to be true and im guessing way over 50% (how many times u see a it was a "misunderstanding" ?) , so this way of thinking to prevent scammers doesnt  work for me - it encourages more to come.

A locked thread usually means the topic is done with. When talking about sales, locked threads should mean the seller either doesn't sell anymore or the goods got sold already.
If you want to be on the safe side, don't buy anything if the sale thread is locked. Easy solution.
No need to remove a feature that got it's use over this.

Gift cards are obviously stolen and you didn't use escrow and you now want to disable thread locking.   Yeah, good luck.  You're going to need it.

Something should happen - once the software is able to customize more features. For example, its not supposed to limit some "freedom" as you would imply by saying "its a forum" but given the amount of scams and attempts, why not set a real serious trust system, which would be similar to the signature rules.

Why are "newbies" with zero postings allowed to lock threads and self moderate topics but for their signature or posting/pm rights they need to "verify" themselves by activity. For me its like a loophole they are abusing - at least make it more difficult for them. If there is already an order in place set by activity and trust for such things, why allow newbies from the start to self moderate? Thats something you wont find on "any forum".

The idea is not to limit the board, but to adapt some rules that make more sense regarding especially financial offers. Most here are because they are supporting Bitcoin and often post themselves to warn others of paypal etc, so I dont see why someone would be opposed and especially real "newbies" coming here should be having the same interest in safety and im sure they would understand and support it, for their own good.

How many real newbies come on here with broken english "have 88$ pp, need btc.. no trust u first blabla" and lock the thread?

Of course, im saying the same, avoid any trades in such way with newbies but this is supposed to be a protection for future real newbies that most likely will see 2-3 scammers every time on the first page without realizing.

The second part is exactly what I mean - they are limited by the 5 minutes cooldown and this already forced them to switch to skype and made them easier to expose, so whats wrong with the same logic used on locked threads and self moderation. Why not allow after a certain activity.. its a small step, but wont hurt anyone apart the scammers.

Another scam out of the digital goods section. I can post "told you so" fast enough...

Yes I thought of that when it happened but didn't want to break rules... or have a mod move it here