I think DocJohn was saying they close it momentarily to see if they can cut some posts out to reopen it but often times there is too much to cut out so it's just left locked. I hope you are not sitting there for yrs waiting for it to be reopened!
Just assume if a thread gets locked, it'll stay locked!
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