I have to say, our forums are everything I dreamt they'd be. We have such good discussions here.
It's extremely rare to lock a thread here. I do tend to change the titles of threads to make them more specific (i.e. "Game is too hard" to "Monsters attack too early") but otherwise, there's extremely little moderation here.
Frankly, as a regular on forums, I'm not quite certain WHY these forums require so little moderation. The current internal theory is that FE, as a turn based strategy game, attracts a different (i.e. older) demographic. That's the best theory we have right now.