# Better indication a topic is locked

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-indication-a-topic-is-locked/29826>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [9 يونيو 2015، 10:04م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-indication-a-topic-is-locked/29826 "2015-06-09T22:04:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [9 يونيو 2015، 11:21م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-indication-a-topic-is-locked/29826/7 "2015-06-09T23:21:22Z")

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I am not a big fan of imagining problems users “might” have, I am a fan of reacting to reports from real users.

I’m not convinced this is unclear, and more significantly, _I have never heard a report from any user or site owner that this was a problem._

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/0/b008ef0e65e29d8ccc69dfb001cc057f67897931.png) 

That said, I am interested in providing a better more condensed set of Staff Messages, perhaps using iconography. But it’d be the same message, in the same place, with the same color just with a lock icon and smaller.

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