lordrichter wrote: »I asked one of the mods a while back this exact question, he says about a week.
Right. There is a time dilation effect and that answer does not account for it. There is a variable conversion factor. It is determined by counting the number of days between the time something urgent hits the forum, and the official response comes. That is "about a week".
More seriously, I feel that a couple months is more appropriate than about a week, for most threads. That is because of people who do not use the forum regularly, how fast information ages on the forum, and how many mods there would need to be to lock all of those threads. ZOS_BillE is fast, but he is still only one human. I think.