hey,
i can understand not wanting to moderate the same endless discussions on the same topics on a daily basis, e.g. the anti-israel protests. and i can understand still wanting to allow some news coverage surrounding that topic, such as: https://www.reddit.com/r/berlin/comments/1m18dtw/berlin_court_rules_ban_on_palestine_congress/
in theory, the idea of locking such threads nearly instantaneously and prohibiting any discussion seems fine, if that is what the mods want. in practice, this can clearly get abused, as can be seen in the aforementioned example. that thread is not simply a lin