Stop locking every thread

mongus · Post by **mongus** » 10 Jul 2006, 06:25

the thread asking for drone to be banned is locked, why?

Its not a flame war im making, im asking for him to end that bad habit.

Its even disturbing the mods start locking those threads he post in, bc ther may be good reason to rezz them, no the reasons drone fragger does have, that is something like "yes? omg!".

Im serious on he stoping that, or he should be banned.

Even those RFMWFTBBQ threads deserve more locking that the one i made, that was to talk about that, not to bitch about some cool fact, he could have showed up and say something even.

but well seems you rather prefer houndreds of posts like omg wtfbbq cool1!!.

you lock stuff to easy handed.

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 10 Jul 2006, 08:04

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 10 Jul 2006, 08:35

Because asking for people to be banned is unacceptable.

Post by **Tim Blokdijk** » 10 Jul 2006, 10:22

You really have to know what your doing when you ask for a ban.
And just outright asking for it is clearly not the way to do it.
Nothing constructive would come from that topic you made.

Min3mat · Post by **Min3mat** » 10 Jul 2006, 15:10

Nothing constructive would come from that topic you made.

since when has ANYTHING in OT been constructive useful or even interesting for that matter ;P

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 10 Jul 2006, 18:58

Um... I have rezzed 4 dead threads. All for good reason.
2 for map remakes, 1 for a mod re-release, and 1 other for something else which I forget now.
That is not "all the time"

Decimator · Post by **Decimator** » 10 Jul 2006, 19:10

Nothing good is going to come out of this thread either.

Post by **jcnossen** » 10 Jul 2006, 20:36

IMO, people should be allowed to discuss it, even though it might be pointless. An admin shouldn't judge pointlessness or lock according to that.
On the subject of rezzing threads, I think it's better if you make new thread and link to the old one, drone.

FoeOfTheBee · Post by **FoeOfTheBee** » 10 Jul 2006, 21:09

jcnossen wrote: On the subject of rezzing threads, I think it's better if you make new thread and link to the old one, drone.

That, and summarize.

This way you don't have to wade through an old thread before understanding the post.

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 10 Jul 2006, 21:20

Okay.

KlavoHunter · Post by **KlavoHunter** » 10 Jul 2006, 23:23

Drone pwns

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 11 Jul 2006, 19:59

jcnossen wrote:IMO, people should be allowed to discuss it, even though it might be pointless. An admin shouldn't judge pointlessness or lock according to that.
On the subject of rezzing threads, I think it's better if you make new thread and link to the old one, drone.

It's flamebaiting. Period. What is drone going to do? It's a threat to his status here.

If the thread had been "I think drone needs to stop ressing old topics" I wouldn't have locked it, but it's not mong's call to make weather that's a banworthy offence or not, and it's not a mature way of addressing the problem if there is indeed a problem. I'd be a little more flexable maby if the violation was something against listed rules and clear evidence was posted, but I think it's absolutly inapropriate for people to make a public demand for another comunity member to be banned without a solid reason. How the hell is he supposed to follow rules he doesn't know exist? We have no listed rules about rezzing threads, we DO however have listed rules about respecting other comunity members.

I think it's terrible that a couple people decide they don't like someone for whatever reason and all of a sudden the slightest err's in thier behavior is banworthy. Frankly get over yourselfs, grow some maturity and tolerance. That thread was a poor attemt at psychological warefare, and I think that kind of thing is absolutly unacceptable to do to another comunity member.

keithjr · Post by **keithjr** » 14 Jul 2006, 22:42

I would like to weigh in that I agree with Swift on this one, and I support the use of locks on spent threads. If an issue is resolved, there's no point in having 3 pages of after-gossip hanging around. Locking threads is an effective tool for keeping a forum organized, searchable, and managable by making threads concise.

TradeMark · Post by **TradeMark** » 14 Jul 2006, 23:01

I know only few reason to lock threads:

1) If the discussion was moved to another thread.
2) If the discussion was ended, and everyone agreeded to that.

I dont like locking either if just one moderator thinks its "good" thing to do...
Doesnt matter if people talks shit, let them just talk shit... and best way to get rid of idiots: dont reply to their stupid posts.

Johns_Volition · Post by **Johns_Volition** » 15 Jul 2006, 05:54

I demand this thread to be locked.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 15 Jul 2006, 07:43

I was originally appointed a moderator to get a handle on flaming, not because the forums were too unorganized or there was too much off topic banter going on, that stuff really doesn't hurt anyone, the flaming does. I lock threads that have decayed into flamewars and I lock threads that are started as flamebait. That's my job and I'm not apologizing for it.

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