Recently I've stumbled on question which I would be thrilled to continue the discussion on them had they not being set to "Locked". So yes, I really think SO is killing a healthy discussion from that perspective.
off-topic: In Hebrew there is a children song which in loose translation means: "It's not so pleasant to see a closed kindergarten"[1]. I guess this feeling applies to stack overflow discussions as well. It's not that fun to find an interesting question being locked.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...
http://serverfault.com/questions/68883/linux-command-line-be...
Recently I've stumbled on question which I would be thrilled to continue the discussion on them had they not being set to "Locked". So yes, I really think SO is killing a healthy discussion from that perspective.
off-topic: In Hebrew there is a children song which in loose translation means: "It's not so pleasant to see a closed kindergarten"[1]. I guess this feeling applies to stack overflow discussions as well. It's not that fun to find an interesting question being locked.
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnRCI8aLt_Q