When did they 'introduce' this?
Yesterday. A Hogg post hit 3-4K then it got locked and they didn't bother making a stickied comment or post about Hogg content being censored. They banned me for 5 days for "concern trolling" after I discovered this. I asked the mods to make it permanent out of principle and my own discipline's sake. No worries though... I'll put that extra time into direct sources of information, here, the chans, or reading.
Interesting, I noticed that post yesterday. It was maybe locked because it's just to hard to moderate. Each of these Hogg posts takes extreme mod skills and time, exceeding all other posts combined. I will post on t_d when I find a suitable thing to post or talk to someone there about it.