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Is your proposal related to a problem?

Commenters who are involved in an argument often feel the need to "get the last word" or retaliate when moderators step in. Moderators can remove the comments, but often no rules are being broken and it's possible that good discussion might be lost with removal. Locking the entire post can stop other comment threads which may not be contentious.

Describe the solution you'd like.

Adding the ability to lock replies to a top level comment could allow discussions to cool down, or give mods time to clean up threads which are becoming a problem.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

locking all comments, removing comments.

Additional context

No response