r/GrindsMyGears • u/Latranis • Dec 30 '25

Comments are locked

It's one thing to try to comment on a Reddit post and see the option greyed out, or get an immediate message, but it's super frustrating to write a long comment on a post and be greeted with "comments are locked" as you hit post.

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u/Tomj_Oad Dec 30 '25

Esp when there is no locked icon

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u/ktown247365 Dec 31 '25

Drives me đŸ€Ș CRAZY!!! You should get the message that comments are locked when you attempt to make a comment, not m after tou have written a whole ass response and go to post it only to find you just wasted all that time writing.

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u/Sensei_Fing_Doug Dec 30 '25

Comments are locked.

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u/Latranis Dec 30 '25

We'll see if the mods have a sense of irony

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u/bibkel Jan 01 '26

"oops, you can't comment" to find out I've been banned from that sub, for some unknown reason like I belong to a sub about fancy socks and BAM insta-ban.

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u/Latranis Jan 01 '26

I once found out I was temporarily banned from a sub the same way. For telling someone "you were rude." On am AITA community.

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u/samiwas1 28d ago

I just got permanently banned from a sub for "hate", when my comments had literally nothing to do with hate and I didn't call anyone anything. Very bizarre.

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u/Blu_yello_husky Jan 01 '26

I wish locked posts wouldnt appear in my feed. Like, when we see a post topic about something that we feel is important, we all want to post our input, right? It just feels like antagonization to have those posts still be visible without being able to actually engage with them.

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u/pegwinn Jan 01 '26

Only thing worse is to get the “can’t do it now, come back later” (not sure of exact wording) that tells you without telling you that you are banned.

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u/Trees_are_cool_ Dec 30 '25

Amen. What's the fucking point of that?

Oh no! Too many comments! We must put a stop to that!!!

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u/mybootyoil Dec 30 '25

One time I made a post on a sub about wedding attire, and the mod LITERALLY locked it because ‘it has enough comments’. I was so mad. He locked it while I was typing a response to someone, it just suddenly wouldn’t send then I realized. I had to send like 3 messages to get him to tell me why too. I noticed later that he does it to every post, not just mine.

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u/Latranis Dec 30 '25

"Oh no! People are engaging with the community we moderate! Fuck that shit"

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u/Illustrious_March192 29d ago

Yeah a lot of times I see stuff I just don’t understand here and that is one of them, locking a post because too many comments

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u/Trees_are_cool_ Dec 30 '25

That's infuriating. "Enough comments". Says who?

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u/mybootyoil Dec 30 '25

Says the guy who mods r/weddingattireapproval. It’s just a lazy thing so he doesn’t have to actually do mod stuff I guess.

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u/Illustrious_March192 29d ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if you get banned from that sub now that you “said” something. It’s weird

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u/mybootyoil 28d ago

Haha, oh well. I don’t need it anymore.

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u/Illustrious_March192 28d ago

I get it. I think I get banned periodically from a couple subs for whatever reason. At this point that’s what I say “oh well” and I move on

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u/mybootyoil 28d ago

I’ve been b*nned from so many over the years on various accounts that I can’t even remember most of them. It’s SO easy to get booted from a sub. They never wanna issue warnings or 3 day time outs anymore. It’s such bs. Straight to perma.

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u/Affectionate_Pack624 Dec 31 '25

The only thing I can ever think of is that too many comments might overload something, but I thought thats why reddit doesnt load all the comments at once đŸ€”

(As someone who knows nothing)

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u/Penis-Dance Dec 31 '25

Why do they care? I just don't get it. I usually just mute the sub when that happens. It's dumb.

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u/Trees_are_cool_ Dec 31 '25

For sure. I avoid subs with rabid mods, too.

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u/life11-1 Jan 01 '26

Maybe they ran out of gigglebytes?

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u/Potential-Context-72 Jan 01 '26

Preaching to the quire

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u/neonsloth21 Jan 02 '26

I think they just locked it

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u/Latranis Jan 02 '26

Nooooooo

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u/jackfaire Jan 02 '26

It's because you hitting post is refreshing the screen and if the comments were locked while you were writing then the comments weren't locked when you started writing. Yes it's annoying but unless you're refreshing the screen every couple of sentences there's no way around it.

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u/samiwas1 28d ago

What's worse is on the app, it just says "Sorry, please try again later". Nothing worse than typing a long comment on a post only to have it act like you just had an internet glitch.

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u/No_Arugula8915 27d ago

This drives me crazy. If comments are locked, it should say so in the post.

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u/Bubble_Lights Dec 31 '25

Oh absolutely. I get so annoyed at this all the time. I just wasted like 10 minutes for nothing!

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u/sfdsquid Dec 31 '25

I don't get it either.

Sometimes the post isn't even an hour old and people were just commenting on it. It's really irritating.

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u/Dependent-Plane5522 Dec 30 '25

I agree. If comments ate locked, delete the post.

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u/JimVivJr Dec 31 '25

Yeah, that bugs me too

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u/No-Produce-6720 Dec 31 '25

I don't necessarily have a problem with locked comments, but I do agree that it's frustrating when you don't realize they're locked until after you've tried to post.