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EDIT: I have taken in account commentary on both sides and devised this new policy for the D&D section. Read and comment if you so desire on the thread. Thank you for sharing your insights!
Moderator policy change poll
This is especially pertinent to Debates and Discussions threads, so consider it in that context. Feel free to voice your opinion or elaborate in the news comments.
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:12pm
- Gunmetal
(#1093)
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Posted on: Wed Dec 31, 1969 6:00pm
I'd have voted yes. In the context of debate however, I chose no. If you open a public discussion everyone should be able to participate. What ridiculous narrow-mindedness to lock a thread because you don't like the responses. Inappropriate content and rule-breaking is for moderators to deal with.
- Etoile
(#797)
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Posted on: Wed Dec 31, 1969 6:00pm
I vote no, for pretty much the same reasons listed above. mind you, I'm all for it if the thread has turned into a flame war, or whatever.. you know, normal circumstances for a thread to be locked regardless. Or if the thread is irrelevant anymore, in which case it COULD just be edited.. But overall, I think people use a lock just to close a thread where they have started a debate or argument, and are tired of their point being knocked down.
- Beccah♥
(#220)
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Posted on: Wed Dec 31, 1969 6:00pm
I voted yes, some people just aren't ready to start debate threads when they think they are, and I think if they want their topic closed it's their right to be able to step back and have it closed, allowing someone else to make a new thread on the matter if they want.
I would hate to make one thread that carried on for years against my will, making whenever someone reads that post think of me only in that light, specially if in time my views on a matter changed. Even if they edited it out of the first post, often times people quote it and that can't be removed. :-/
Case in point: 4 years ago I joined a debate on another pet site where I ranted on about how animal testing was the worst thing in the world, how anyone who did it was cruel, etc. 4 years later, I have grown and learned a lot, I no longer agree with that view by ANY means and I'd hate to always be associated with that statement forever more if I didn't want to be.
- Bex [others maybe]
(#16)
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Posted on: Wed Dec 31, 1969 6:00pm
I'm stuck on it, I lean more towards the "suggest to a mod to lock the thread" xD...
- freya
(#472)
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Posted on: Wed Dec 31, 1969 6:00pm
I think that in some cases it's necessary to lock a thread if it has run its course. Keeping a thread open indefinitely is pretty pointless IMO.
- Chu
(#718)
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Posted on: Wed Dec 31, 1969 6:00pm
I have to take both sides. Though people should have the right to make and lock their own threads, there are always people who will lock their thread simply because they are getting negative feedback from one thing or another. However, I'll have to vote yes.
- Hiiro
(#755)
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Posted on: Wed Dec 31, 1969 6:00pm
for all the people who don't want it locked because it would end a discussion that the thread-starter is "losing", wouldn't it be even more pointless to keep a thread open and then people keep posting how "wrong" someone is; even if that someone no longer checks the thread? lol that seems far more pointless to me. But that's just me XD
- Oce
(#508)
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Posted on: Wed Dec 31, 1969 6:00pm
I think the wording has people confused about what this poll is about. lol.
- MixyFox
(#45)
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Posted on: Wed Dec 31, 1969 6:00pm
Hmmm, everywhere else, and I'd vote yes, as it's their thread. But in the D & D forum, it's not just theirs. They can start the idea, but other people bring in their own ideas that can change the outlook of the whole topic, then people ALSO start debating with others as well as the OP. The main thing that got my vote is: from what I understand, mods will STILL lock a thread if it's way off-topic, a flame-war, and such, even if the OP doesn't get the last say in the locking. So all I can see is giving the OP the locking decision is giving them the power to lock the thread if it doesn't go their way. They can quit posting, and when there's less and less people able to debate, the thread will die.
Posted on: Wed Dec 31, 1969 6:00pm
agrees with grape.