Whats the Thumb Tack and Padlock icon mean?

[Kyper]

As many of you have noticed on several posts appears a thumb tack, or , what this means is that the topic is stickied and will therefore always appear at the top of the message board.

As many of you have also noticed on several posts appears a padlock, or , what this means is that the topic is locked and therefore no more replies can be made to it.

These icons can be scene in two places on the board for a topic. In the left column that is nothing but icons. You will notice that they are all bundled together there, and could look something like this for a post that's both locked and stickied .

The other place you will see them is in the Subject column, and there you will see them individually side by side.

There are many other icons you might see in the two left most column of the board, but most of those are self explanatory.