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Originally posted by caltour:
So, why the secrecy, Lance? What good does it do for you to shut down a forum without telling anyone exactly why you did it? All that does is ensure that whoever went over the line will not know what they did wrong. No lessons will be learned, no improvements in behavior will occur. When you shut down a forum because of the misbehavior of a few people, you only encourage an atmosphere of randomness and anarchy.
Originally posted by infuryum:
If anyone remembers, it was this EXACT same issue which had me upset two autumns ago. The disbandment of a forum with NO clear reason why. No matter how hard I tried, NO ONE would tell me WHY the Off-Topic forum was gone. They, in addition to the owner, simply took the stance of "don't ask and leave it alone."
Yesterday, Fat Mike posted a thread about going to protest Laura Bush and he was threatened and he was a hero blah blah blah. Turned into a typical CEG quasi-debate including flaming and name-calling.
Not long after, someone else started a thread about Laura Bush coming to their home. This thread consisted almost completely of posts that contained nothing but repeated quotes of blank space -- that was very cool.
After Christy locked that one, someone else (I believe PackRat) started a thread about Laura Croft coming to their house. I didn't quite see everything in this thread, but what I saw was dumb and not within forum guidelines.
That's the stupid crap that resulted in CI being removed. No more "secrecy".
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Originally posted by Red92784:
I think that the mods dont like confronting people. They should first PM the offender and warn them that they will lock the thread if this beheavior continues. Locking the thread is just an easy way out of a confrontation.
I tried that once. But because the person was so hot under the collar I just ended up getting verbally (textually?) abused. Locks are more effective. If someone is unsure as to why a thread was locked, they can always PM and ask.
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Haha textual abuse!  What will the mother say when she finds out???
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Originally posted by hetfield:
Originally posted by Red92784:
I think that the mods dont like confronting people. They should first PM the offender and warn them that they will lock the thread if this beheavior continues. Locking the thread is just an easy way out of a confrontation.
I tried that once. But because the person was so hot under the collar I just ended up getting verbally (textually?) abused. Locks are more effective. If someone is unsure as to why a thread was locked, they can always PM and ask.
So you are going to let one person discourage you from trying that again?
Jesus!!! Have you ever had anyone disaggree with you in a thread? Oh right I forgot. You'll just lock it if that happens.
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Originally posted by Red92784:
Have you ever had anyone disaggree with you in a thread? Oh right I forgot. You'll just lock it if that happens.
Again, you're confusing disagreement with flamewar. All the PM did was make the situation worse. I've been in plenty of great discussions and debates on this site, but I'm not here to have people make personal attacks against me.
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I think this post needs to be moved to the Common Interests forum. 
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Originally posted by Red92784:
So you are going to let one person discourage you from trying that again?
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Originally posted by Red92784:
You'll just lock it if that happens.
Moderators don't do that from what I've seen.
And infuryum, I will continue to donate to the site (it's not much, but it's something) regardless of the CI forum. That's not what the CONTOUR forums are all about, although it is fun and can be useful.
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I still vote for more than just one day off from the CI forum. Some nameless people are still not learning to keep their trap shut in lieu of creating flamebait.
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Originally posted by JVT:
I think this post needs to be moved to the Common Interests forum.
And let it end with that! 
Good show, everyone! Don't forget next week at Washington University in St. Louis where the debate will be Town-Hall style and moderated by my good friend Kermit. And then the week after at the University of Arizona in Tempe which will focus on domestic issues with a format similar to this one and be moderated by Renee. Don't expect to get a word in, edgewise!
(just joking, sweetheart.)
Goodnight!
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