What is the purpose of this?

There is legit no purpose other than to "clean things up" and now I can't find threads that I would go back and reference

They should at most just lock them.

I would suggest making a suggestion to make archives public.

I would suggest making a suggestion to make archives public.
~ @Lady_Hestia

Exactly what I was thinking ^

But since there are (or at least I thought) staff archives, we should make a public archives and a staff only archives.

I would suggest suggesting making a suggestion to make archives public.

I think you meant:

I suggest suggesting a suggestion to make archives public.

I think you meant:
I suggest suggesting a suggestion to make archives public.
~ @metr0n0me

So you're suggesting that suggesting suggesting a suggestion would be the suggested phrasing?

So you're suggesting that suggesting suggesting a suggestion would be the suggested phrasing?
~ @chrisandmatthew

that's a mouthful