To LMS: Well, it seems the rules aren't as defined as they should be in this area. The staff is continuosly discussing it, that's why the mods handle the issue slightly differently. In my opinion the rules are clear that you may not advertise or promote sides and never for-profit sites. However, if you name or credit the source of your pictures/scans it's just respectful and should therefore be allowed. I'm not so sure about links in a signature though. When I started out [as mod] I thought no links that lead to sites outer BZ were allowed. Since then I learned that links to fansites seem to be tolerated. However, if I come across links that aren't clearly leading to a fansite I would likely have them removed. The staff cannot click on every link we come across so there needs to be some kind of commonality.
I try to name the source every time. I hate it when people doesn't. Okay, it is a lot of info to save, but as I said, it's respectful. Though I have to admit that I hadn't thought about that at the beginning and posted pics without naming the source. I kinda like TFS' strictness on that matter, without source the post will be deleted. It's a shame for all pics lost though ...
To Danni: I don't know much about the technical side of things, Danni, but I don't think it will be possible with the software the forum is based upon which seems to be rather basic.
Also if you could lock the thread you would take the other members' right to participate on a thread in the forum. Maybe they got valuable content to share. And also you have to keep in mind that not every member take care of the topic once it's been started. So who could possible control which topic is open, which is locked, which had been forgotten by its creator. And it happens all the time that members just cut on their visits to BZ or completely ignore it for periods of time, so what to do if they had forgotten about unlocking? And what about someone wanting to create a thread on a model, searching if the model already got a thread here, finds the thread and then finds out that it's locked and he cannot post the infos he's got. Rather than PMing the creator of the thread he would start another thread on the model. You know it's true, Danni, it's the easiest way. And we would have to get rid of dozens of Double-threads. So, nice thoughts, but I don't see they're likely to happen ...