@BillDubuque By my reading, the topic was quite inactive until you decided to edit the title to use MathJax for text formatting. Based on answers to
this meta question, it appears that the consensus is that this is an inappropriate use of MathJax. Four distinct users tried to remove the inappropriate use of MathJax, and you reverted it every single time. It seems that locking the post to stop the edit war was an appropriate action