The pointless locking of threads

~~Foals~~ · 09-10-2008, 02:32 PM

The 'What was your top played...' thread was hardly spammed, people posted once a week max as that's when the Last.FM stats are updated. So that shouldn't have been closed really. Re-open it please.

awelsh · 09-10-2008, 06:06 PM

What I find stupidest about this rule is:

They say they didnt contribute to the community, however in the "Post your setup" threads in both console gaming and the technology section there were always people wanting to know where to get certain items that another member had. Also the dumbest thing ever, the "Post what your listening to" thread stays open, so im guessing that contributes a hell of a lot does it? and of course its not spam so i guess ill post what im listening to every 15mins so im out of the edit limit

Heart Break Kid · 09-10-2008, 06:11 PM

yes most of them should
like the RS ones which were repeatedly spammed
by at least the same 4 people

Coldplay · 09-10-2008, 06:22 PM

They should all be deleted, so all the people who spammed them and are complaining, have something to REALLY complain about

awelsh · 09-10-2008, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by Coldplay

They should all be deleted, so all the people who spammed them and are complaining, have something to REALLY complain about

Not really, if the moderation team actually moderated the spammers and issued warnings and/or bans to the certain spammers instead of simply closing the threads it would have been fine.

What I find VERY STUPID is the fact the post what your listening to is the only one to stay open, becuase posting a song isnt classed as spam but posting lets use an example like: "Post your games" they are practically the same, people may want to know what new games are out? names of certain games maybe?

Plain dumb decision by management of this forum as usuall in the past year or two.

lolwut · 09-10-2008, 06:35 PM

Sent this as a PM to Professor-Alex, but here you go:
I know some of the threads which got locked where pointless... I agree with that, but the "Post Your Setup" thread did contribute to the community and did foster a community. If you look in the thread, you will see that lots of discussion does actually occur. In the majority of cases, we quote eachothers set-up and query them on it. We also generally discussed reccomended computer parts and so on. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the definition of a discussion?
I'm sorry to have to send you this, you've probably been getting a lot. If you have, surely this shows you that we enjoyed that thread and it was actually, contributive.

Coldplay · 09-10-2008, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by awelsh

Not really, if the moderation team actually moderated the spammers and issued warnings and/or bans to the certain spammers instead of simply closing the threads it would have been fine.

What I find VERY STUPID is the fact the post what your listening to is the only one to stay open, becuase posting a song isnt classed as spam but posting lets use an example like: "Post your games" they are practically the same, people may want to know what new games are out? names of certain games maybe?

Plain dumb decision by management of this forum as usuall in the past year or two.

You said it, Not me...

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