Why was the "MS rule world thread" locked?

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:00 pm

Um ... Why?

It was hardly trolling in OT (as our self-righteous Dr suggested) and no more likely to start a flame-war than any other thread in OT (the most innocuous threads end up with five-word vocabulary individuals insulting each other).

So could someone humour me and explain why?

Thanks!

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:01 pm

it was an invitation to flamewar obviously.
and because the mods like to play emperors

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:03 pm

The most alarming thing is that Kale can lock threads!

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:06 pm

I think it was rightfully locked. It was such a blatant attempt at trying to get certain responses, that it's... well... even... even within Kale's rights

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:08 pm

blueznl wrote:I think it was rightfully locked. It was such a blatant attempt at trying to get certain responses, that it's... well... even... even within Kale's rights

Hope you're joking - otherwise you are defining a precedent that allows just about any thread to be locked.

The abruptness of the lock was shocking.

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:09 pm

It was originally in 'General Discussion', where it was locked, then later moved.

I agree with Mr fool, an invitation to flamewar - nothing that belonged in a PB 'General Discussion' topic.

cheers

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:10 pm

Okay, I understand the General Discussion thing.

As to invitation to flamewar, this forum doesn't need an invitation.

Check out just about any thread.

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:15 pm

The abruptness of the lock was shocking.

Your right. I would have let it go at least a few post just to see what happened.

Any time now this thread will also be locked, and this post will prob be deleted!

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:19 pm

As to invitation to flamewar, this forum doesn't need an invitation

we define flamewars differently then. Just look at my politics thread. The only negative person in there was blueznl.
I haven't really seen more than 2 flamewars here and participated in none of them. Nearly.....
ok. but we still define them differently.

nothing that belonged in a PB 'General Discussion' topic.

Exactly. Besides it could have been formulated better. Like the "creative" thread, that had some discussable point and didn't run into flames or anything

About kale and the other mods, i think they are doing a decent job. not sure if kale is a mod though. Rings is the silent mod and he was around when the thread was moved at least...

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:22 pm

MOSTLY do a decent job. There have been cases where posts that should NOT have been deleted have been deleted. but whatever

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:25 pm

The thread was locked on an assumption.

Would you like your threads to locked because someone assumes something?

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:27 pm

Dare wrote:The thread was locked on an assumption.

Would you like your threads to locked because someone assumes something?

it should just have been moved, not locked then.
bloody aussie

but nevertheless even I saw it as an invitation to flamewar and of that reason i would not have entered the thread at all

pdwyer · Post by **pdwyer** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:29 pm

will that discussion really be missed though?

It's moot because MS is unlikely to want to run world governments and tackle poverty and manage economies :roll:

You'd have some Snr VP for regional operations & key MNC sales saying "hem, hem, I don't feel that it's in line with leveraging our core competancies"

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:32 pm

pdwyer wrote:will that discussion really be missed though?

Hardly. But hardly the point either. Go through the threads here and decide which ones would really be missed if they were deleted/locked. Then see how many of those were locked.

pdwyer · Post by **pdwyer** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:33 pm

locked? they're gone!

Where's Kale's carefactor gif when you need it?