I concede the discussion may have been imperfect, but I feel I was getting somewhere new there. I am new to the website and I may not have been as familiar with the logistics and formatting customs of the website as I am now. Nevertheless, I feel I did a good enough job for the discussion to stay. Every member of this website is new at some time. Perhaps the administrators, moderators, and editors of this website should be more tolerant of other peoples' views, behaviors, and interests. I wrote with considerable effort and thought and now its all inaccessible. I am disheartened, disappointed, and discouraged.

What is a locked discussion? I don't know what that is. What do you mean by "the limitations in functionality"?

If a person doesn't want to read or participate in a discussion, he or she has the choice to not do so. Nobody was obligated to read or participate in the discussion.

I actually thought the discussion was going so well that I wouldn't have been afraid to cite portions of it in the future.

If the discussion is not returned to public view for public participation, I may be taking my interest in trivialism to another, more understanding, and more respectful online forum.

I don't like to see my and my supporters' posts disappear. I do not want to plagiarize from a source that no longer is accessible, but now not doing so in the future will be that much more difficult. I and everybody else who participated in that discussion deserves due credit. The disappearance of the discussion was damaging, rude, and disrespectful.

If possible, I would like to see the discussion returned to public view. It would help me and others advance.