Locked means locked. If you were aware that the thread was supposed to be locked, then you shouldn't have bothered trying to get in the last word (*what* you posted is not relevant; the post was closed) after the fact. Bara will be plugging that loophole for the future.
I didn't KNOW it was locked while i was typing, thinking, typoeing, evaluating, checking (getting my coffee cup out of the Microwave, answering the phone, etc ) my reply... it was relevant in that particular manner (call it, bad timing) -- but how should i guess if any other threads will get locked under these conditions?
All i'm asking is IF such threads belong to JoeUser -- are they unsalvagable and, as a result, removed some peoples time & opinions expressed?
Once Bara rolls out the fix for the loophole, any attempts to post replies after it is locked will get rejected.
I can give a perfect example of what these kind of threads can do to a community.
Many years ago there was a lot of speculation about what was going to be done with Iraq. At that point WinCustomize was a small and friendly community - until the infamous Iraq thread. Suddenly community members were at each others throats. This started to spill over into other threads, a number of people developed bad attitudes and the site degenerated.
Topics such as politics and religion should be kept to sites designed for that purpose. People have such opposing views that things never end well.
Yeah, right, whatever - as i suspected... this was a bigger problem that only GunslingerBara or Kryo can handle. My first reaction was that a moderator has intervened in (yet again) another silly "situation" created by an OP and **NOT** made worst by anyone squeezing in supplemental comments -- grammatically correct, btw.
Never been on JoeUser, myself -- but i paid them a quick visit after the strange [post-lock comment removed] auto-delete function only to realize the Lock didn't recuperate anything, anyhow for any reasons than being censored for having an opinion.
Weird.
If you're going to say such and such is not allowed here but is allowed there then doesn't it at least behoove you to publish *which* forums there are not shared here?
Where is here anyway? Even the moderators have no idea where someone is posting from. Everyone thinks that here is the site that they frequent but it's not.
I happen to know that /forum/412 exists on Joe User and GalCiv2 and many other places. However most people have no idea. What about the other 755 forums? Can someone tell me specifically which ones are *safe* and which ones are prohibited?
My specific compliant is not about the locking of threads or deleted content. In my opinion not enough threads are locked or enough content deleted. My complaint is that what used to be the GalCiv2 site has essentially become the Off-topic/Impulse/Personal Computing site.
........attn: all your answers are loaded and ready to go......just start all paths at THe Beginning...
I dearly hope you're being satirical.
Probably not.
Afterall.....this IS the Internet....
wow, quoting and responding to a reply 3 months short of 2 yrs old...
that's just so... so...
oh wait.
forgot, it's the internet.
never mind.
The threads about political pundit Glenn Beck and the War on Terror have been relocated to JU Politics in keeping with this policy. Posters take note and mind to put future such threads in the appropriate location.
Thx for that
pm'd kryo with essentially the same message, v.
kryo...please move the health insurance stuff there too?
....(could move the entire Off Topic Forum to JU, in my opinion.)
the health care thing should have been posted under current news instead of off topic
If I had my druthers I would prefer to post on all sites *except* for JU and WinCustomize as those sites seem to have a much different type of clientele that in general I would prefer to not associate with. But I don't have my druthers so the only way to reach those that I do feel I have something in common with is to use the Off-topic forum and hope that most JU denizens will realize that since the post is not in their Politics forum that it was most likely not addressed to them and therefore will be less likely to respond.
Off-Topic has been flooding our WC forum in the last few weeks....politcals...games...'please talk about the first thing that comes into your head' prattle.....and the extremely classy.."Do I just have a dirty mind, or"...which is just plain "Off".
Would be wonderful if WC could be bypassed....we're quite capable of creating our own prattle...
The computing posts are fine....but the swamping of our own threads with this stuff is a real turn off for visiting the forums...
Mumble's health care thread looks reasonably civil as yet, so I see no need to bother it. Can't say the same for those other threads, whose author seems to thrive on contention.
Come to think of it.. why is this thread on WC?
Lets get back to skinning
Blame Brad for that one, it was already here (note it's about three years old) before he put the OTF there.
My post had to do with relevance to WC, not civilty. I wasn't aware the number of and/or frequency of foul language was related to Thread site. I thought subject was the criterion.
As noted in the OP, the reasoning for the thread moves, and the rule in general, is that such threads very rarely remain civil (if they even begin such), and it's the lack of civility in threads not at all related to our products causing community fragmentation on the various sites that is the underlying concern. So on the off chance that a thread does stay civil, there's room for a bit of flex in the rule.
Eventually as the normal site specific traffic slowed down then as a percentage the Off-topic along with Impulse and Personal Computing traffic became the predominate traffic. In some sense it's damned if you do or damned if you don't because what's essentially happening is that the site is dying and if it were left to it's own devices it would probably die out completely.
I can only say the same thing that was said to me when I made these very same complaints and that is you can clearly see that these posts originate in the Off-topic forum and if they really don't interest you then you really don't *have* to open the thread and read stuff that you know is only going to annoy you.
I know this is easier said than done because of the "train wreck" syndrome but that's the best I got. Ideally folks should have some control over who they wish to target as their audience but such is not the case and those that make the decisions have made it clear that the forum sharing will continue "as is".
Looking at the recent posts page of WinCustomize, although there are some related topics, there are actually only four posts about skinning.
At a time when we are trying to build a decent community once more the forum is being strangled by dross. If this was a plan to undermine WinCustomize then you can pat yourself on the back because it has worked.
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