A New Record!
<div class="IPBDescription">Congratulations!</div> This forum now has more locked threads than any other on the Internet! Amazing!
Thanks to the Gestapo of moderators on that one. I'm glad you are around to stifle communication at its very source.
I expect this thread to be locked, and possibly myself to be banned from the forum. Of course we can't have anyone realize the siituation here.
Please tell me, what exactly is the purpose of locking a thread? In most forums I have seen it is because activities with questionable legal implications are being discussed, or maybe there is excessive swearing. However in the Natural Selection forums it seems it have something to do with disagreeing with a moderator, being born in August, having brown hair, or clever this... random thread locks!
Note: I posted this is Off-Topic hoping that maybe that would reduce the chance of it being locked. We'll see.
Thanks to the Gestapo of moderators on that one. I'm glad you are around to stifle communication at its very source.
I expect this thread to be locked, and possibly myself to be banned from the forum. Of course we can't have anyone realize the siituation here.
Please tell me, what exactly is the purpose of locking a thread? In most forums I have seen it is because activities with questionable legal implications are being discussed, or maybe there is excessive swearing. However in the Natural Selection forums it seems it have something to do with disagreeing with a moderator, being born in August, having brown hair, or clever this... random thread locks!
Note: I posted this is Off-Topic hoping that maybe that would reduce the chance of it being locked. We'll see.
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As you can see from my post count, I participate actively in the forum. I am sometimes thoughtful, sometimes irreverant, and sometimes emotional. But I have never felt constained in my ability to express myself and my opinions, so I regretfully disagree with the sentiment of your post.
By the way, how were you able to execute an exhaustive survey of all forums on the Internet.? Do you have a tailored web-crawler to do this? Do you have software that counts locked threads? Or were you simply being sarcastic and petulant?
(If you have any difficulty with these polysyllables, I would recommend any of the excellent versions of the Oxford Dictionary. Good luck. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
In the third case, most threads seem to get shoved to Off-Topic, but a few certain topics are simply unwanted, not needed, and/or have been discussed to death in previous topics.
If you're bitter over having one of your topics locked, check my reason to see where you fit in.
[edit1] <i>uhh yeah, what Vimstl said</i> <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--><!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Thanks but I could understand just fine. Now go awe your little brother again with your amazing grasp of the English language. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
As for your not feeling constrained, that's great. I on the other hand just started participating in the forums yesterday and already a thread I was having a discussion in was locked. Looking through the Suggestions and Ideas forums there are numerous locked threads and moderator threats and edits.
A moderators job, as I see it, is to help communication between forum members, only locking a thread or banning an individual in extreme situations.
on these forums. So I say they should LOCK this one
as a cruel twist of irony <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
It's like this in 1984 or something. How I wish I was blissfully ignorant of the excessive moderating.
Perhaps your prayers have been answered. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Now quit whining and exagerating so much. It's the reason no one likes you here, or in real life.
Locked topics are the result of what has already been said...
1. The conversation has degenerated into flaming.
2. The topic has started out as a flame.
3. Nothing new has been offered, and someone bumps with merely a " =) " post.
Whilst disagreeing with a moderator is not necessarily against policy, most cases of this have been locked because it became immauture and flamey. I accept criticism when it is presented to be in an adult manner.
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I also think you're exaggerating your very few locked topics...
There is one case that was funny enough to remember. <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=16095&hl=' target='_blank'><b>This</b> is what happens when forumgoers REALLY don't play nice</a>, and I think that SpyderMonkey's actions were quite warranted.
Before being edited, the thread title was originally an attention-getter one would interpret to be against Flayra/NS, only to see it was in its own odd way a compliment. It kept getting crazier from there.
Wait a few months. Watch the flames pile up.
Soon every topic that has a hint of controversy is a swearfest where the object is to make the other guy look bad, regardless of the topic or your opinion on it.
Oh yeah, compare me to some of the worst fascists ever! It's true! I *love* walking around in black leather trenchcoats and shooting people for no damn reason at all.
Do you freaking know what the hell you're talking about?
it's funny cause you're wrong. i like this guy. he's right, he really is.
and just because he hurt your feelings is no reason to attempt to hurt his.
It also lets whiny brats act like they're superior to everyone else and pretend like they know what they're talking about.
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And I'd really love to know where you got this from. Not everything you read on the Internet is true, you know.
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It's called hyperbole.
The reactions of <i>most</i> of the moderators to my post are almost hilarious. There is absolutely no sign of concern or friendliness, and even a few personal attacks on me.
I have no doubt that moderating forums this large can be aggravating, but that is no reason to chase away some of the few people who are trying to be reasonable. The discussion I was having had no flaming at all and I was enjoying the debate. Upon coming back the next day it had progressed by maybe two posts, none of which were flames, but it was suddenly locked.
I was very upset at the time, and in an entirely different thread I was in I noticed quite a few people mentioning that the actions of moderators seemed unreasonably harsh. I <i>did</i> over react by saying *all* of the moderators are Gestapo-esque, it is probably only a few.
With this thread alone as an example I think any reasonable person can see that those in charge often react with knee jerk responses and could stand to be a lot more professional and tolerant of new forum members.
I am not one of the bad guys, I just wanted to come to the forums and quietly and rationally discuss one of my favorite games, but with the current situation that doesn't seem possible.
Calm down, drink a cool glass of your favourite poison and view the situation with an open mind. If you post a new topic that makes a good point, or a suggestion that has merit and hasn't been discussed before, then you'll find you recieve a healthy discussion about the topic. That's what I do and I've never had a thread locked on me. And I personally KNOW I've annoyed monse on one or two occassions <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
The mods are under no obligation to be "professional" in their dealings to you. A "professional" gets paid. They do not.
Even if the mods were completely draconian and fascist, which they're not, what concern is it of yours? You're free not to post here or read these forums. You're free to not play NS, even. That's the difference between these forums and <i>1984</i> - if you try to escape the tyrannical rule of the mods, they will not hunt you down and kill you. They will simply forget you were ever here.
If I were a mod, I'd be tempted to drive the point home by temp-banning you so you wouldn't have to feel compelled to suffer under my tyranny any further. Obviously the mods here are far more patient than I am.
The fact is, you came into a forum that is hosted and moderated by a group of people out of the generosity of their hearts, for love of a game that is distributed freely, and the people who play it. You encountered some of said people in the course of performing their job of making these forums pleasant for everyone. And your reaction was to post an obvious flame-bait topic, spitting in the face of all their hard work.
And you get all bent out of shape at receiving anything less than perfect <b>professionalism and courtesy</b>? Are you on <b>crack</b>?
'K, everyone be quiet, starting.... NOW!
That's what you get when you compare normal, intelligent people to the Gestapo. It's <i>crazy</i>, I know but there you go.
You obviously haven't been to the DoD Forums in the past 2 years....
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=5&t=24889&hl=' target='_blank'>http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/in...f=5&t=24889&hl=</a>
Basically, it's requesting blood and gore be in the game. It was locked because Flayra doesn't want blood and gore in the game. If the Suggestions and Ideas forum is for discussing ideas of new game elements, why wouldn't the moderator lock something that wasn't ever going to be included? Seems kinda futile to post a new topic that is hopeless before it even starts.
I think I'll let him have the last word.