Locking threads

hellfrog

I don’t think you should just be locking threads as jokes. A large part of my objection to the MSB meltdown was the censorship.

Pavel

It isn’t a joke. The thread had served its purpose. It’s also not censorship, you can quite clearly still see it and talk about its contents elsewhere if you really want.

hellfrog

@Pavel So are you going to be deciding when all threads have served their purpose and locking them as you see fit?

glitch

@Pavel said in Locking threads:

The thread had served its purpose. It’s also not censorship

It’s not really on you to decide that.

sao

I feel like a thread lock should be reserved for when there’s like … an actual harm to be prevented or something. Otherwise you’re just making extra work for yourself.

Jennkryst

@Pavel @hellfrog still has not been banned HERE, though, so the thread is an accurate description. It should only be locked in the event of her doing some fuckery HERE that gets her banned from here, too.

Pavel

Fair enough, I can see the reasoning.

Would it perhaps be better served to throw all the MSB-related conversation into a single thread, rather than have it spread out?

glitch

@Pavel I’d say that, unless rules are being broken, just let things flow.

sao

Wow, look at that. A mod reacted to criticism by listening to reason and reversing an action.

Pavel

@sao I was definitely over-zealous in my desire to stop talking about the other place, so it’s entirely on me.

Jennkryst

@sao said in Locking threads:

Wow, look at that. A mod reacted to criticism by listening to reason and reversing an action.

UNPRECEDENTED!

Edit: FUCK, I quoted the wrong thing the first time!

Roz

I can actually understand a general desire to have the MSB drama consolidated a bit, because some people are definitely not gonna want to linger in it and will want to just move on, and limited threads means stuff is easy to set to ignore. But we can probably just manage that as general users as everything starts to settle in and get comfy in a new environment.

Pavel

@Roz said in Locking threads:

But we can probably just manage that as general users

But how can I make you guys understand how cool I am if I don’t abu-I mean use my minuscule amounts of power?

Jennkryst

@Pavel said in Locking threads:

@Roz said in Locking threads:

But we can probably just manage that as general users

But how can I make you guys understand how cool I am if I don’t abu-I mean use my minuscule amounts of power?

Become a TS-FIEND

Third Eye

@Roz said in Locking threads:

I can actually understand a general desire to have the MSB drama consolidated a bit, because some people are definitely not gonna want to linger in it and will want to just move on, and limited threads means stuff is easy to set to ignore. But we can probably just manage that as general users as everything starts to settle in and get comfy in a new environment.

Yeah I feel this myself It made me a bit gun-shy about posting too much at first (though some of that it just not being active on a MU at the moment), though it’s been cool to see familiar names pop up and it’s definitely cathartic to laugh about it. There’s a happy medium we can all of us find in time.

bear_necessities

The threads about MSB will die down in a week or so as people get more distance from the situation (assuming, of course, nothing else blows up over there lol). Locking threads should really be used very very sparingly and only in the event that rules are being egregiously broken. Let the community decide what threads to participate in, what threads not to, and what threads will inevitably die.

Tez

Hi, guys:

YOU ARE RIGHT. When we permanently lock a thread, it will be a majority decision from the admin. And we’ll say it’s a decision from all of us and why we are making it.

If a thread DOES seem like it MIGHT need a cool down, then that will receive a temporary lock, which will ALSO be clearly called, but that is a decision that CAN be made by a single admin.

There won’t be any haha just kidding admin trolling of fake-locking threads. Transparency is important to me. HELLA IMPORTANT.

Narson

@Tez said in Locking threads:

There won’t be any haha just kidding admin trolling of fake-locking threads. Transparency is important to me. HELLA IMPORTANT.

You say this, but I see right through you.

Snackness

@Narson BANNED.

tsar

@Snackness Jail