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by **Dancing Mustard** on Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:24 pm

...why the hell has this thread ( viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90574) been locked?

It's a polite request for a certain type of player to join a private game. At the very worst, it only deserves to be moved to the callouts section... but why on earth has it been permanently locked?

Furthermore, why hasn't the mod who locked it posted in the thread, depriving me of the opportunity to quietly PM them for clarification and forcing me to come here and make another separate thread in order to get a clarification?

Seriously, sometimes you guys do things that I don't agree with, but I see why you do them... but at times like these I just have to wonder if some of our mods might just be pressing buttons at random and hoping for the best.

by **pimpdave** on Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:26 pm

You should post the text of that thread here. It's just as valid (if not more so) in this forum than in Much Ado About Paperclips.

Since you were supplied no reason, I can't fathom why they would find fault with you just posting the text here. In fact, I assume that was the reason it was locked, that it was supposed to be moved to this forum, but a mistake was made. Help them out a little.

by **hwhrhett** on Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:28 pm

sounds like it should have been in callouts. and was innappropriate for callouts. borders on flaming, or encouraging flaming in game-chats too.

by **AndyDufresne** on Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:30 pm

Best to avoid flames and the encouragement of flames.

Lets not walk yourself down any unnecessary road, DM, now that you are back in the Community.

--Andy

by **Fruitcake** on Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:31 pm

AndyDufresne wrote:Best to avoid flames and the encouragement of flames.

Lets not walk yourself down any unnecessary road, DM, now that you are back in the Community.

--Andy

Is it me or does this sound very sinister bordering on stasi like in its delivery,.

by **pimpdave** on Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:33 pm

Andy, you have to admit it was clever and in an overtly tongue-in-cheek tone.

Probably would have sunk to page 2 within a day, and been lost at sea within a week. But a good play on words and fun joke until it does disappear.

by **Dancing Mustard** on Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:46 pm

AndyDufresne wrote:Best to avoid flames and the encouragement of flames.

But the thread in question did neither of those things... it was clearly a tongue-in-cheek invite to a game in which trash-talk was encouraged and in which people would not take themselves too seriously.

Just to make this clear (and feel free to go actually check this fact): Nobody was flamed in the thread itself, nor was anybody encouraged to flame anybody else.

Perhaps this is just another case of a moderator skim-reading the topics of forum threads and arbitrarily locking them based on their pre-conceptions?

I mean, did whoever locked that thread actually read it? And if so, do they speak English as their first language?

AndyDufresne wrote:Lets not walk yourself down any unnecessary road, DM, now that you are back in the Community.

What? Is this another random threat to ban me?

For what? What have I actually done? I haven't flamed anybody, and the only reason that I've had to make this thread is because the moderator who screwed up this decision didn't even dare to sign the thread they screwed up in?

How on earth am I the one getting threatened with a ban on this occasion? Why does everybody on the mod-squad seem so terrified of letting me make threads around here? I feel like some kind of panic-alarm gets tripped in your staff-room every time I log on or something.

by **Artimis** on Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:56 pm

Well, with regards to the locked, offending thread, I would like to apply for the post of Fuckhead also. I've been informed on many occasions that I have a tendency to 'over' communicate in a mostly base manner. I'm confident that my torrential down pour of verbal expletives will be appreciated rather than rebuked in the game you plan to set up. Please inform me of the particulars by any means at your disposal.

Artimis

by **owenshooter** on Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:04 pm

time to lawyer up DM, you are just too clever for them... that post violated nada...-0

by **targetman377** on Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:50 pm

dancing mustard its casue you already fufille that role so they thought you did not need anyone else so they closed it

by **Dancing Mustard** on Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:04 pm

targetman377 wrote:dancing mustard its casue you already fufille that role so they thought you did not need anyone else so they closed it

See Andy, now this is a flame. This is the kind of thing you're supposed to be moderating. That's the sort of comment you were hoping to find when you (or whoever) panic-locked my thread.

Now, will Targetman be getting the same kind of censure that I tend to receive for that kind of comment (y'know, flaming being against the rules and all)? Or will double-standards be deployed in my direction once again?

Eager to see your response.

by **lgoasklucyl** on Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:15 pm

This poses a rather interesting dilemma I would love solved by a moderator.....

DMs thread is locked for 'encouraging flaming'. Now, it's pretty apparent that the thread may encourage flaming within the game chat, though not in the thread itself. Any flaming within the thread would have to come from someone else instigating, as the rest of the comment is a mere game invite.

Note the dilemma: Flaming is not allowed in game chat? Or is it that it just shouldn't be encouraged, but it's plenty okay for it to happen?

Last I checked mods had a pretty bad track record when it came to punishing the likes of Dfork and other individuals who continuously run their mouths in chat, so I must be missing something if flaming in game chat is illegal.

If it's not illegal, then wtf is wrong with encouraging it?

If it is illegal, why is DM being locked and 'threatened', yet individuals who are in C&A at least once a week for driving people away are left virtually unscathed?