mods gonna lock interesting threads just cos they got revived

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

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

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)

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

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?

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).

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.

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.

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

lol the original blog post is nuked right now too

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.