I clicked on the thread from the main page about an hour ago, and read through the information from the link Jaerik posted. I then spent time writing a fairly lengthy, very positive, grateful and insightful reply. Clicked "submit" and got a error message stating the thread was locked, and I could not retrieve the content of my post.
Not gonna try to recreate the post; it was too lengthy for that.
Long story short -- thanks for posting that link Jaerik.
Please don't lock threads. Not everyone trying to post wants to make every thread a flame war.