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Stacey

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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 10:51 am Post subject: Locking threads that aren't abusive

Why?

Who decides what's interesting and what's not? Why is it any skin of the mods' noses if a debate rambles for a bit? Sometimes a thread loses impetus for a while only for someone to come along and inject a new idea or there are actual developments in the subject being discussed.

It comes across as very heavy handed and arrogant for a mod to just decide to lock a thread that doesn't actually go against the guidelines. Is this a community or a club for people 'in charge'?

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: York

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 10:55 am Post subject:
Careful, you'll get locked What hacve I missed? Edit:I haven't been drinking, honest. Who/what has been locked? Last edited by Rob R on Tue Jul 15, 08 10:59 am; edited 1 time in total

Jb

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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 10:56 am Post subject:
Hear hear. Do we arrest people who aren't breaking the law on the basis that they might at some point in the future do so?

Rob R

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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 11:06 am Post subject:
Oh, I see now

pookie

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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 11:07 am Post subject:

JB wrote:

Hear hear.

Do we arrest people who aren't breaking the law on the basis that they might at some point in the future do so?

Minority report, thought provoking film!

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 11:12 am Post subject:
I think there's many people who aren't keen on the debates in the first place or would like some locked much sooner. So, locking after 22 odd pages seems a reasonable compromise to me.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: York

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 11:21 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

I think there's many people who aren't keen on the debates in the first place or would like some locked much sooner. So, locking after 22 odd pages seems a reasonable compromise to me.

Mafia's hit 31, someone isn't doing their job.

Having read it, it did seem rather abrupt.

vegplot

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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 11:23 am Post subject:
There are times when it take me ages to formulate an argument or make a point and it's frustrating to find a thread locked just because it's gone on for a long time. Mods presume that everything to be said has been said, this can be an incorrect assumption and stifles debate.

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 11:29 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

I think there's many people who aren't keen on the debates in the first place or would like some locked much sooner. So, locking after 22 odd pages seems a reasonable compromise to me.

I think the problem is that it seems rather arbitrary. No rules were broken, we don't have anything saying we'll lock threads that are off topic (there'd be almost nothing on here

) and yet the thread is just killed.

Northern_Lad

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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 11:33 am Post subject:

JB wrote:

Do we arrest people who aren't breaking the law on the basis that they might at some point in the future do so?

No, but people can be 'sectioned' for their own safety before they do anything that would really warrant such treatment.

I've not read all the thread, but it's my experience that after about 15 pages people are entrenched, and after 20 they start using munitions.

Stacey

Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 8380
Location: Kernow

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 11:46 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

I think there's many people who aren't keen on the debates in the first place or would like some locked much sooner. So, locking after 22 odd pages seems a reasonable compromise to me.

Why? If it upsets you that much don't read it.

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Location: Earth

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 11:51 am Post subject:
I was purposely avoiding it while I was busy, but intended going for a read when I had time, what if I had a burning opinion that nobody had put forth already, eh? Or was it really getting out of hand? I'll have a read later hopefully

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 11:51 am Post subject:
Bet it was that Stacey again, wasn't it

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 11:57 am Post subject:

Stacey wrote:

Treacodactyl wrote:

I think there's many people who aren't keen on the debates in the first place or would like some locked much sooner. So, locking after 22 odd pages seems a reasonable compromise to me.

Why? If it upsets you that much don't read it.

Don't worry I didn't read it.

However, some poor mods will have to to keep an eye on things so I'm happy with a reasonable balance.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: York

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 08 11:58 am Post subject:

Fee wrote:

Or was it really getting out of hand? I'll have a read later hopefully

Nope, not a single stoat had been mentioned.

Incidentally the introduction of the stoat to the forums seems to have improved things far more than locking ever did.

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