Okay, so I've actually been thinking about this for a while, but it just popped into my head again today and I figured I might as well make a thread about it. Oftentimes, due to the ambiguity of some rules and the personal judgments of the Ninjas, people won't understand why their (or another's) thread was locked. They'll usually either:
a) Post it here, asking why it was locked (as if we locked it)
b) PM the Mod they think locked it
c) PM another Mod asking why it was locked
None of these are fail-safe. We can't tell why things are locked sometimes, and if they PM a Mod that wasn't the Ninja that locked the thread in question, sometimes even other Mods can't tell why it was locked because of the room for interpretation. Hence my suggestion: a lock timestamp.
This can't possibly be hard to implement, so I don't really see the "Web Team has better things to do" etc. argument as being valid. If submitting an edit would result in an edit timestamp, logic dictates that it would be fairly similar to implement a feature where submitting a lock would result in a lock timestamp. Same difference.
Now, this timestamp would show who locked it, and when. That way, if anyone wants to know why, they can PM the Mod they know locked it, and get a definite answer, rather than "I think it was locked because ______".
I see no drawbacks to this. What do you guys think?