Monk
Caveman Ninja
While staying "on topic" or at least in the neighborhood is a definite goal, this board's thread closures take it to an extreme level. Seriously draconian - it is VERY difficult (for me, at least) to get any sense of "community" when it feels like stepping outside a topic for a micro-second will cause a thread closure.
In the one instance where I've stepped out of topic for more than a post and the thread was moved by a moderator (rather than being closed) so that the new "off-topic" conversation could continue, another moderator comes along and closes it because the original topic cannot fruitfully be continued! Bizzarre.
I guess I'm just used to a lighter more community-minded / peer style forum rather than this constant bashing posters on the head approach. I rarely get even a "quiet warning" elsewhere to address any forum behaviour of mine.
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When I close threads it is because they have no conceivable value other than the self-amusement of the posters.
Who exactly SHOULD we be amusing in order to have our threads unmolested?
It DOES feel sometimes like the on-topic rule is being used to make the Pandora forum a usable manual written by the users rather than any actaul community thing, because IMHO communities just aren't that... mechanical I guess is the word.
As for whether a thread MAY be postivie OR productive in the future - you know what, think about the US space programme for a moment. The biggest reason they have been able to give for spending millions (billions?) of dollars in advance is "because we don't know what we'll find, but we find stuff worth the money we've paid on a regular basis". Human interaction and exploration is often like this. We're not digitl, pre-programmed and completely predictable - we are the analogue nubs of the forum, the bits which MIGHT go one way but COULD go a completely different way and surprise everyone. Conversations - true community behaviour rather than being herded - is like that. It wanders, it meanders, it produces wonderfully off-the-wall (yet related) results.
I'm not saying we should dissolve all the groups and just leave "off topic", but herding forumites this much seems very totalitarian. It's certainly more offputting than what I've seen of PoinsonedV. Mostly...
Thanks to gp2.eXe for pointing me at the original thread, sad to see it got closed.
Ta.
In the one instance where I've stepped out of topic for more than a post and the thread was moved by a moderator (rather than being closed) so that the new "off-topic" conversation could continue, another moderator comes along and closes it because the original topic cannot fruitfully be continued! Bizzarre.
I guess I'm just used to a lighter more community-minded / peer style forum rather than this constant bashing posters on the head approach. I rarely get even a "quiet warning" elsewhere to address any forum behaviour of mine.
QUOTE
When I close threads it is because they have no conceivable value other than the self-amusement of the posters.
Who exactly SHOULD we be amusing in order to have our threads unmolested?
It DOES feel sometimes like the on-topic rule is being used to make the Pandora forum a usable manual written by the users rather than any actaul community thing, because IMHO communities just aren't that... mechanical I guess is the word.
As for whether a thread MAY be postivie OR productive in the future - you know what, think about the US space programme for a moment. The biggest reason they have been able to give for spending millions (billions?) of dollars in advance is "because we don't know what we'll find, but we find stuff worth the money we've paid on a regular basis". Human interaction and exploration is often like this. We're not digitl, pre-programmed and completely predictable - we are the analogue nubs of the forum, the bits which MIGHT go one way but COULD go a completely different way and surprise everyone. Conversations - true community behaviour rather than being herded - is like that. It wanders, it meanders, it produces wonderfully off-the-wall (yet related) results.
I'm not saying we should dissolve all the groups and just leave "off topic", but herding forumites this much seems very totalitarian. It's certainly more offputting than what I've seen of PoinsonedV. Mostly...
May I humbly suggest that if you made a thread expecting it to get locked/in order for it to get locked, that could in fact fall well within the definition of "trolling"? It FEELS like it, to me. Maybe half-trolling then?PoisonedV said:1. i wasn't trolling at all 2. i hate 4chan
that said, i created the thread fully expecting it to be locked. thats half the reason i made it
I must admit I've found it hilarious too - not searching, duplicate threads (oops I could be in toruble here) and gravedigging are all frowned upon. Maybe they only want new topics... sounds more and more like an unofficial user's guide!u9i said:I find it funny that people are bitch slapped for not using the search function and creating duplicate threads, yet when they do, they are bitch slapped too. There is just no pleasing some poeple.
Thanks to gp2.eXe for pointing me at the original thread, sad to see it got closed.
Ta.
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