There's 50,000 members. If you look at a topic, maybe a dozen or so replied. But look at the views. For every one member that posts, many, many, more just read the posts.

There's 50,000 members. If you look at a topic, maybe a dozen or so replied. But look at the views. For every one member that posts, many, many, more just read the posts.

 

John... How is this an explanation for locking a thread?

 

 

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Hey guys -

Put 3 people in a room, and they will have 6 different opinions on how the forums should be moderated.  We know that, and do the best we can in order to keep most people happy.  That also means there will always be people who do not agree with one decision or another. It comes with the territory.

 

If you don't like how one decision went, you probably agree with many others.  It's just the law of averages.

In before the lock

 

 

  I never knew what IBTL stood for.  I always thought it was something risque. lol.  

There's 50,000 members. If you look at a topic, maybe a dozen or so replied. But look at the views. For every one member that posts, many, many, more just read the posts.

So do any of these non-posters pm you that they are offended? Are posts locked for fear of offending people that read but don't contribute to the community?

Asking outside of I have a product I'd like to b^tch about or politics rules.

Evan,

We just received 57 PM's that are offended by your post.  LOL! 

Evan,

We just received 57 PM's that are offended by your post. LOL!

Thanks Glenn that made me literally lol.

There are threads that have been active for many years with thousands of responses, and viewed 10X more.  On going for several years and with all those posts, one would think it's been covered pretty well.  Threads like that should continue, there are always new members and, possibly new input and the opportunity to voice an opinion.  There have been topics started that barely last a page, has that thread really covered all the bases.  Topics generally lose wind all on their own and work their way to the back pages.

 

As of late I've been spending time on a few android forums.  International as well as BR I can't say how many members but I would say quite a lot.  The topics covered, many with very technical responses, while mainly dealing with the newer phones and OS still allow threads to continue dealing with 5 year old out dated smartphones.  Why, because people still use them and questions arise.  Don't recall ever seeing a "IBFL" or a thread shut down because everything has already been covered.

This I agree with, I don't agree with Lund Explorer even though he is my idol.  Everyone is entitled to express their opinion or ask a question regardless of age.

Moderating, interesting subject.  I can certainly understand a thread locked and posts deleted due to policy infringements.  I do not understand locked threads where no infraction has occurred.  Just saying the topic has been covered pretty well eliminates a member from expressing his/her opinion, not every one is signed on daily. Members IMO are the most important asset of any forum.

 

I believe you misunderstood the point I was trying to make in my prior post.

 

Of course everyone, including the children, should be allowed to express an opinion.  The problem is that if you or I have the temerity to question them, or to point out the error in their thinking, we are subjected to them pulling out the "kiddie-kard".  When I recently replied to one of the more moronic posts made in a locked thread, I was told in no uncertain terms "Don't you know you're talking to a 14 year old?".  The answer I couldn't make in a thread that had been locked would have been "YES!".  There was also a question I would have asked; "Doesn't this kid know he is conversing with adults?". 

 

All of us, regardless of age, should expect to have our posts responded to and that includes replies that point out that our original posts may have been incorrect.  However, if the kiddies are supposed to get a free pass then I feel it is only reasonable that their member status should state so.  Moderators have special titles, so perhaps they should as well.

 

All I was trying to point out was the simple fact that when you enter into an adult conversation, you should be expect to be treated as such.  Not as some kind of weird protected class.

 

BTW, didn't you guys learn about "Idols" thousands of years ago?

An idol brought Greg Brady bad luck.