The pointless locking of threads

[Axel]

Nah, if they did close it people would moan.

[JackBuddy]

If you wanna crack down on spam and pointless posts then why don't you take away post counts from forum games. The only reason some losers go there is to get an extra 50 posts or so a day.

[Recursion]

IMO, they contributed the most to the community. In the setup thread we would have loads of discussions about different setups etc...

[Foals]

The Achievements/Challenges thread shouldn't have been closed.

[today]

Post your hairstyle thread, shouldnt be locked, it can help new people choose hairstyles.

UNLOCK IT

[GommeInc]

From the announcement -

That announcement was a bit pants really. The "what you last downloaded" thread fits under the same reason. I've downloaded some songs when they'e been mentioned before :/

I think there was one in the console games forum closed aswell, based around games you own and games you've recently bought. The last few posts in one of them were 2 members discussing a game :/ They seem to of been closed with no thought in mind, and suggesting they're re-opened means they're wasting their own time again :/

The setup thread was also quite interesting too. These "what are you doing" threads weren't even that bad to begin with, you would think the way they handled this situation that it was a cancer upon the forum

[Nereo]

In fairness to management they are trying to improve the forum by trying out different stuff like this, however when they see threads like this which make it quite plain that people disagree with the changes they should reverse the decision and in this case re-open threads

[Slowpoke]

It wasn't to see whether members disagreed or not, Nereo. It was plain and simply because a lot of threads were being abused by people spamming.

[Nereo]

It wasn't to see whether members disagreed or not, Nereo. It was plain and simply because a lot of threads were being abused by people spamming.

I know it wasnt to see whether members agree but what i'm saying is if you have a large amount of members agreeing one thing then management shouldn't ignore what the people are saying and do someone else. Plus as a few other people argued, some of those threads didnt have a lot of pointless posting but were closed anyway.

[GommeInc]

It wasn't to see whether members disagreed or not, Nereo. It was plain and simply because a lot of threads were being abused by people spamming.

Surely you agree that they just wasted their time with this whole situation? If threads were being spammed in, target the threads that were actually being spammed in, not threads that were seemingly harmless e.g. Console Games, Technology etc.