Unprecedented Locking of a Thread

First he didn't say whether the topic was relevant but had he it wouldn't have phased me. 9 out of 10 threads on this board disolve into utter nonsense. One has to wade through mounds of bullshit (some heaped on admittedly by yours truly) to get information or an answer. I have NO problems if the Lindens look at topic relevance, content relevance or any other form of relevance. Their toy, their rules.

I'm continually amazed by this entitlement mindset.

You offering, David?

*gently takes the coffee cup from your hand and sets it on the table..smiles at you and wiggles his eyebrows*

Neualtenburg has its very own forums, moderated by their own people, for discussion of their project. Neualtenburg can happily exist there. Pathfinder linked to them in his closing thread.

Given the ability of group forum moderators to censor thier own forums, that is NOT the place for discussion of government in SL as a whole.



Thus, the new thread.

-Ghoti

It's not nice ta make a girl shiver while at work!

Personally, I'm satisfied with Ulrika's original concern, and satisfied with Pathfinder Linden's answer. Anything else is a bad imitation of Neil Simon.

I think Pathfinder is doing a pretty good job. I think a heavy hand was desperately needed in these forums with the right touch, which I think PF is providing.

um i want what liona is getting please

I have noticed quite a lot of this business over the last few months. If some people are arguing in a thread, it gets locked. If a thread contains a personal attack, it has a really good chance of getting locked, and the people who were arguing don't reach a conclusion. If a thread starts talking about something other than the original topic, it may get locked, even though there was no problem at all with what was actually being discussed. Back in the old days you could argue with and flame people, which is a perfectly natural thing on forums, and participants would actually come to some understanding. They'd agree to disagree, or put each other on ignore if it got bad. Nowadays it's cut off right in the middle and nothing gets resolved, and people either start new threads or snipe at each other in other threads because their original setting for communication was closed. If a thread turns into a personal mud-slinging festival between two people, it should be enough to tell them to stop it and take things to IM. Locking the thread prevents other people from commenting, even though they might have something worthwhile to say, and in my opinion should only be the very last resort.

I think people should feel like they can argue about something without being nannied to death, and I find the current tendencies to lock these threads to be patronizing.

Forum rules...

Oh wait, these arent for the SL forums. Carry on.

Things revealed by this thread thus far:

1. No matter how reasonably someone voices a concern, there will be at least one reply that basically amounts to, "omfg stfu n00b!!!1!!1!"

2. It's possible for a moderator to respond to a reasonable question with a reasonable answer.

3. David's in demand.

Huns I have noticed that you are breaking your normal modis operandi lately and writing over one line?? Egads! Please tell me you are ok -- No fever? All is well?

I agree, but so far I haven't seen anything close to somebody being nannied to death. There are a VERY small number of people who resort to personal attacks, character assassination, name calling and such. Once those people are trained everybody will forget about it.

I don't think Pathfinder's trigger finger has been too itchy, given the depths to which things had descended.

It isn't as though he's ever aborted a "discussion" that was actually going to resolve anything. If only left to their own devices, they would have worked it out? Haw!

(I always liked Jeska's style. Short and to the point.)

Keep up the good work, Pathfinder.

Buster

i agree with moopf...
and omg ulrika... end of the world soon

and i also disagree that the information was irrelevant. it provides a history of past thoughts.

while i have said being a moderator of any forums is a no-win situation and the moderators deserve some slack, the moderators still deserve to be told when they've done something stupid.

I agree Pathfinder did a good job explaining his actions. Reasonable and detailed reasoning. Good Job.

What I would like to see is the removal...complete removal...of any posts that are simply inflamatory without intelligent response. (boy am I gonna get it for that one )

Good start Path...now just keep it going..a bit more.....

Pathfinder should not have closed Ulrika's thread on government. His explanation about people being confused by a gap in the posts doesn't make sense, there are many things about many threads that might confuse people, such as pointless references to tin foil hats, and those posts don't get closed.

There is a very significant difference between the old post and the new post - the old post was started by Ulrika and the new one was started by Pathfinder Linden. Ulrika is an avowed socialist and advocate of government and politics in SL. Closing a thread by her on government for such a frivolous reason as Pathfinder cited is like closing a thread on electricity started by Nikola Tesla.

Yes. Despite saying that I'd let it drop, I have to admit that it still bothers me. I just cannot see the logic in locking a thread that had no ongoing arguments, only a new civil discussion tacked to the end of a resurrected thread.

Why start a new precedent of randomly locking resurrected threads? I say unlock it.

~Ulrika~