mods gonna lock interesting threads just cos they got revived

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fair enough. genuinely confused about where that leaves us, but not hugely invested as much as kinda irked that a lol thread was locked fairly gratuituously. That's not trying to be a dick to either Laurel or Kate but, y'know, there's a lot of stuff posted out there just about every day that lots of people are gonna feel strongly about.

but not in a 'this is worth a clusterfuck' kind of way.

quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 5 March 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Just to be fair (and as one of the people that started parallel threads, mine intended to point out the ridiculous aspect of being linguistically obsessed by things like this, also to get a cheap laugh and make fun of crazy dog breeders), i dont think these threads should have been dropped or locked, but i am not going to make a big stink about it.

First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Friday, 5 March 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link

kind of ironic that I didn't actually see your thread or know about its existence until just now

Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Friday, 5 March 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link

OMG I could not make heads or tails (hurr hurr) of that poll, jj, so in the spirit of actually having A Lot of Work to do today, I just breezed past it!

The other side of genetic power today (Laurel), Friday, 5 March 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link

"ironic" isn't really the right word there, I know

Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Friday, 5 March 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link

This is why mods shouldn't be permanent, so when they fuck-up like we all do, they don't take administrative action to correct it.

i'm #FFFFFF btw (bnw), Friday, 5 March 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link

no worries my thread is so awesome and hilarious that it is dropping itself from site new answers

xpost wait what now

First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link

na i don't follow that at all xp

quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Have you even looked at what 90 - 95% of the activity on MRF is these days??????

Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link

my solution doesn't really make sense but see I can't just delete it now like you dudes could. More on point, if a dispute involves a mod they should probably allow another mod to take action regarding it.

i'm #FFFFFF btw (bnw), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link

what in the HELL are you talking about

Hervé Grillechaise (WmC), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link

(he said, at the risk of starting something)

Hervé Grillechaise (WmC), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link

I think he's talking in part about the tendency of mods to edit their own typos

Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link

which I agree is kind of annoying, if you notice it, since not everyone can do it and most ppl aren't going to ask a mod to fix typos for them

Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link

there's some consistency merit to having mods post requests for mod action on things they were going to do but it seems like introducing a middle man for propriety's sake (also the fact that mods do often bounce things off of each other in private before taking action is difficult for non-mods to take into account, since it happens in private)

Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, that's what I meant. While the spell-check annoys the shit out of me... I really mean for actual disputes/fites.

i'm #FFFFFF btw (bnw), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link

that's not a bad idea, maybe? i think if a thread starter had gone to you with this request, you prob mightn't have taken it as seriously as you did when the actual complaint was against yourself dan?

quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link

That is possible, but I am trying to remember if there is a recent example where someone complained that a specific thread was offensive/hurtful and I argued that it should remain open as opposed to locking/deleting it; let me search and see (having trouble because this type of thing rarely come up; people have asked for posters to be banned and sometimes they have, sometimes they haven't).

Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link

remove my last few posts from this thread?

There is this thread, where the poster wanted something they were embarrassed about removed, but the other people on the thread really enjoyed the contribution and felt he had nothing to be embarrassed about, so the litmus test that fails there is that no one seems to have taken offense to the posts in question.

Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link

Can We Please Ban This Asshole?

This was a request for someone to be banned where the posts in question were undoubtedly abrasive/offensive, but counter-indicative of the posting style of the person who wrote them. It was suggested that the suggest ban button be used and, if further concerns needed to be addressed that the mod was missing, to communicate via email.

I don't really see anything else in the past two months that isn't "can you delete/change this for me"/"can you ban me from posting". I agree with the (non-)action taken in both cases, particularly wrt to the request for follow-up conversation in case 2 if that wasn't a satisfactory answer.

Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Friday, 5 March 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link

btw for the record, I didn't ban the unhelpful sockpuppet or delete its post but it is pretty much a given that pulling that type of stunt on these threads is going to get you banned so I don't know why people continue to do it

Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Friday, 5 March 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link

lol the original blog post is nuked right now too

ice cr?m, Friday, 5 March 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link

i completely missed this and i feel good about that. locking thread in my ocd way; if there's something still unresolved here, plz start a new dialogue.

forksclovetofu, Sunday, 7 March 2010 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link


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