Reply box still available in locked thread
Reply box still available in locked thread

Young people were becoming more anxious long before social media, and we should not be fixated on simplistic explanations that reduce the issue to technical variables, researcher says - Beehaw

I logged in earlier and wrote out a reply to a message in my inbox but it wouldn't go through when I hit send. After waiting and retrying I investigated further and discovered that the thread had been locked. I then checked the Modlog to see if it had been locked whilst I was typing and discovered that it had been locked 12 hours earlier.
Why can I click on the reply button and open up the reply box on a locked thread when viewing a post in my inbox?
When viewing the thread directly the reply button and box are available but you cannot type in the text box so I suppose I'll be grateful that not everyone who attempts to interact with a locked thread will have their time wasted like mine was.