in reference to the idea that other threads have done it and nothing bad has happened - the last one I recall being "popular" did get locked - however, it was locked due to someone bumping it repeatedly several times a day by a single user and while they
were doing it by randomly pinging deities - I think it was more the nature of the bumps and the content of their posts
While personally, I would find a mass ping thread a bit more on the iffy/spammy side than others, it has happened before and while someone does have to maintain the deity accounts, they're more likely to not pay a single bit of attention to pings/messages, lol.
As a note, none of the other threads were really ever 'organized' from what I remember. It was more just random threads that started out with people pinging the deities and other replies followed in their footsteps.
I'm unaware of the shadow thread mentioned earlier but it might be worth tracking these threads down and actually seeing if the mods gave a reason for the lock. Unless they were straight deleted then any locked thread should have a clarifying post by the mod/admin that locked it.
In that vein I'll see if I can't find the thread I referenced earlier.
Edit: Here's the one I was thinking of.
So that one specifically was axed due to being bumped constantly and not the fact it was a ping thread.
However, in my search there were plenty of threads that started off with a title or OP that was basically "Okay now ping the deities" and while some didn't even get a full page of replies others got to 5+
Looking through some of them, people either lost interest or something else happened that got people to stop posting because usually the end of the thread was someone popping in months (Or years) later to bump it with a new ping.
There is actually just a thread called "
Ping the Deities" and there are a few variations on that title. None of those specific ones were locked at the time. Although rules might have changed, of course, and since this is an organized mass-ping it might be considered different.