# Best practices for archiving topics

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-archiving-topics/27069
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2015年四月1日 18:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-archiving-topics/27069 "2015-04-01T18:17:22Z")
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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2015年四月1日 18:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-archiving-topics/27069/2 "2015-04-01T18:25:51Z")

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> [@Should closing a topic remove wiki edit-ability?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-locking-a-topic-remove-wiki-edit-ability/25680/7):
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> There is no such thing as locking a topic. Do you mean close? If so then yes, as the description for close indicates, this is correct. Close only prevents new replies, that is all. Archive freezes the topic in carbonite, preventing any changes at all, it becomes a stone monument, or tombstone, depending on how you look at it…

We don’t use archive on our instance (except our staging instance where we like to try and break things), so I can’t really say when to use each as we don’t focus on archive at all in our live site.

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