I honestly don't understand what the problem is. Are people killing themselves over it? Lock this thread, and everything will just shift to another thread. Just like it happened the last time Stump locked a thread, and the 3 times before that, when modbot locked a thread.
It's getting close now, and no matter of thread locking is going to change that. If anything, put the ones that are starting to lose their minds on a "break". No need to punish the ones that are discussing the console/reveal sanely. I still think the previous thread shouldn't have been locked, because apart from two guys discussing twitter sources, that thread was a lot more sane than this one. Which again shows, that locking a thread is not an answer in cases like these.