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Thread Lock on MAD versus here. What does it tell us?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:04 am
by _selek
I have my own theories, but I'm interested in other opinions:
A bit ago, I visited the former MAD & noted that, on the first three pages alone, no-less-than 12 threads were locked.
Compare that to here where I can't recall a thread being locked (maybe it's happened, but I can't recall)...
Any thoughts? Is it obvious why or is there another factor I'm not considering?
Re: Thread Lock on MAD versus here. What does it tell us?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:36 am
by _bcspace
They're unwilling to talk about gospel issues that have application in real life. Many others get locked when a mod or one of the mods' darlings get's in trouble when the debate of conversation doesn't go their way.
Re: Thread Lock on MAD versus here. What does it tell us?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:41 am
by _selek
bcspace wrote:They're unwilling to talk about gospel issues that have application in real life. Many others get locked when a mod or one of the mods' darlings get's in trouble when the debate of conversation doesn't go their way.
For once, I agree with you...especially your second idea.
Re: Thread Lock on MAD versus here. What does it tell us?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:49 am
by _MrStakhanovite
selek wrote:I have my own theories, but I'm interested in other opinions:
A bit ago, I visited the former MAD & noted that, on the first three pages alone, no-less-than 12 threads were locked.
Compare that to here where I can't recall a thread being locked (maybe it's happened, but I can't recall)...
Any thoughts? Is it obvious why or is there another factor I'm not considering?
I think they have an autolock feature....where threads of a certain age get autolocked.
Re: Thread Lock on MAD versus here. What does it tell us?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:54 am
by _selek
MrStakhanovite wrote:selek wrote:I have my own theories, but I'm interested in other opinions:
A bit ago, I visited the former MAD & noted that, on the first three pages alone, no-less-than 12 threads were locked.
Compare that to here where I can't recall a thread being locked (maybe it's happened, but I can't recall)...
Any thoughts? Is it obvious why or is there another factor I'm not considering?
I think they have an autolock feature....where threads of a certain age get autolocked.
Not the ones I looked at. They were relatively new and the mod posted something to end the thread.
Re: Thread Lock on MAD versus here. What does it tell us?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:00 am
by _RayAgostini
I don't post here very much anymore, but I will never post on MAD/MDDB again, either. Some of the posters there are very intelligent, but the moderator bias there almost induces me to vomit. I totally ignore RFM, and MAD is going the same way. It's a chore to look at MAD these days, for me, and something I do less and less.
Re: Thread Lock on MAD versus here. What does it tell us?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:04 am
by _moksha
MrStakhanovite wrote:I think they have an autolock feature....where threads of a certain age get autolocked.
They may also have an artificial capricious-lock generator which locks threads with no malice or reason aforethought. That way it always looks like the moderators are awake.
Re: Thread Lock on MAD versus here. What does it tell us?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:20 pm
by _Yahoo Bot
I can't speak for that board but it appears to me that the moderators lock the threads when they no longer are getting posts on the original point or the posters descend into bickering.
Re: Thread Lock on MAD versus here. What does it tell us?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:28 pm
by _Chap
Yahoo Bot wrote:... or the posters descend into bickering.
"Bickering": to continue an argument after it has become clear that the LDS apologists will end up on the losing side.
Re: Thread Lock on MAD versus here. What does it tell us?
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:05 pm
by _Yahoo Bot
Chap wrote:Yahoo Bot wrote:... or the posters descend into bickering.
"Bickering": to continue an argument after it has become clear that the LDS apologists will end up on the losing side.
I don't see that. I rarely winners or losers there. When people turn to nastiness it is over.