What's with all the topic locking?

Post by **Mozgus** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:35 am

racketboy wrote:I haven't done any or noticed any....

He's basing it on just 2. The one I did, and Duct's locking his own thread. This thread is based on exaggeration.

Post by **fastbilly1** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:39 am

Oh I see how it is, me stating how great RC ProAM serves no purpose?

Actually I was planning on posting to it yesterday and noticed it was locked. The poster never came back so I figured it was no problem.

Post by **marurun** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:41 am

Well, the smiley up there was an indication that this thread was only partially serious, though there was some serious concern behind it. So here are the serious concerns:

Why lock a thread just because its covered by an article? Racketboy articles are largely opinion. We should definitely be able to discuss our own preferences. And no, I don't think Racketboy makes these articles so that people won't create redundant threads in the forums. I think he creates them for a number of reasons, but I suspect that's not really one of them.

And as for LoD's thread lock... I can understand wanting to limit discussion on a personal topic once you've got from it what you can, but unless there's a policy about locking personal threads it's probably not a good idea to lock it. If I ask a similar question I can't lock the thread when I'm "done" with it without asking an admin, and a good admin would say "Why should I lock it just because you're done? You start a discussion, you should let it take its course." As soon as you post the thread is out of your hands. Locking should be reserved as a method of dealing with problems like a thread that's declined into insults and harassment or which discusses something prohibited.

So anyway, now that that's out of the way, look back at the smiley and remember that this is more about meaningful discussion. I'm not trying to pick on anyone.

Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, I'm so critical of everyone else because I can't live up to my own standards. So I have to make other people suffer because of my own failures. So take that, all you non-screw-ups!

Post by **Mozgus** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:05 am

Once again, there's a comments section for a reason. They can be used for the discussion. Also, most of the articles like that already have their own corresponding thread in the forum. We don't need any duplicates. I stand by my decision, and Racket can always change it back if he wants. God forbid I try to discourage GameFAQs level of thread quality.

Post by **racketboy** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:24 am

marurun wrote:Well, the smiley up there was an indication that this thread was only partially serious, though there was some serious concern behind it. So here are the serious concerns:

Why lock a thread just because its covered by an article? Racketboy articles are largely opinion. We should definitely be able to discuss our own preferences. And no, I don't think Racketboy makes these articles so that people won't create redundant threads in the forums. I think he creates them for a number of reasons, but I suspect that's not really one of them.

And as for LoD's thread lock... I can understand wanting to limit discussion on a personal topic once you've got from it what you can, but unless there's a policy about locking personal threads it's probably not a good idea to lock it. If I ask a similar question I can't lock the thread when I'm "done" with it without asking an admin, and a good admin would say "Why should I lock it just because you're done? You start a discussion, you should let it take its course." As soon as you post the thread is out of your hands. Locking should be reserved as a method of dealing with problems like a thread that's declined into insults and harassment or which discusses something prohibited.

So anyway, now that that's out of the way, look back at the smiley and remember that this is more about meaningful discussion. I'm not trying to pick on anyone.

Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, I'm so critical of everyone else because I can't live up to my own standards. So I have to make other people suffer because of my own failures. So take that, all you non-screw-ups!

Good points -- If I thought my writings were the final authority, I wouldn't have a comments section below the posts

Post by **racketboy** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:26 am

Mozgus wrote:Once again, there's a comments section for a reason. They can be used for the discussion. Also, most of the articles like that already have their own corresponding thread in the forum. We don't need any duplicates. I stand by my decision, and Racket can always change it back if he wants. God forbid I try to discourage GameFAQs level of thread quality.

I don't mind having discussion in both places. The comments section isn't all great as its harder to keep track of the new posts unless you keep checking back to that page. Plus there is no quoting, etc. I wish there was a good way to intergrate to Wordpress comments with phpbb, but my programmer said the only solutions he has seen may cause database corruption if something goes wrong (or something like that -- can't remember details)

Perhaps we need to make more sticky threads pointing to articles that are recommended for "best games" and then have continued discussion in those sticky threads.
Sound good?

Post by **Mozgus** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:37 am

racketboy wrote:Perhaps we need to make more sticky threads pointing to articles that are recommended for "best games" and then have continued discussion in those sticky threads.
Sound good?

Awesome idea. That would work fine.

Post by **marurun** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:43 pm

Maybe we should just have a separate forum category in which only admins can make new threads, and there's a thread for each article. Find an article you like and want to talk about it? Go to the relevant thread. Of course, that has its own limitations. You could have threads about different aspects of an article and maybe not want them squashed together. So maybe just pinning/stickying them is best.

Post by **Adderall** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:09 pm

I don't see the point in locking anything. I think that if people want to post in a thread (as long as it's not spam or something) then they should be allowed to.

I was also ready to respond with some good game selections and nice descriptions of them.

Just because you don't want to give some girl special treatment doesn't mean that I have to be locked out from helping. I mean, it seems like a very negative thing to do. It's bad for me because I'm locked out, and it's bad for her because maybe the games she would really like to get have yet to be posted.

Just my 2 cents. Locking is bad, especially in a smaller community such as this one.

On the other hand......... not my board, so feel free to do whatever you want. The only reason I'm posting this is because that's the topic of the thread. If it hadn't come up, I wouldn't bitch about it.

Post by **The Apprentice** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 9:15 pm

Racketboy's articles are not perfect. There are plenty of things in his articles that should have been there (take a look at the most recent NES article) but aren't. However there hasn't been extensive locking, but misplaced blocking. Moderaters are people, they are bound to make decisions that dissapoint some of us (look at Benheck's forums) but the rest of us got to deal with it. Really I don't think this topic should be here, it just points out what we already know and invites stupid arguements. That topic in post 2 should've been left alone, but this one is questionable.