Insane
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ME LIKES MODS MOAR MODS PLZ

Sillyman
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Apparently you got more mods, just a -1 instead of a +1. I didn't do it!

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Tahnan
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Oh, please, Briareos, have pity on the forum and delete this thread? Surely it serves no useful purpose at this point.

Briareos
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Tahnan wrote:
Oh, please, Briareos, have pity on the forum and delete this thread? Surely it serves no useful purpose at this point.

Whatever happened to threads just dying off and fading into obscurity?

Also, deleting a thread that's gone on for so long with so many posts in it (no matter what the content) smells like trying to hush something up, which I'm not really down with...

Why don't you just ask a mod to lock it? And mod my first post down to zero if you want...

EDIT: Also, woohoo - 3001st post!

np: The Cinematic Orchestra - Breath (Ma Fleur)

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Mattcrampy
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Lock an Anything thread?

Really?

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Tahnan
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Briareos wrote:
Whatever happened to threads just dying off and fading into obscurity?

The problem is, people keep posting (and yes, I know that this very post is part of the problem, but it's not a fundamental part of the problem).

Why don't you just ask a mod to lock it? And mod my first post down to zero if you want...

So, nu, consider it asked. I figured you'd be as easy to convince to lock as a mod to delete. If there were anything constructive in this thread, I'd share your qualms about deleting it, and yet.

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I fully endorse Tahnan's suggestion of locking/deleting all threads on the forum which lack constructive content.

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Maurog wrote:
I fully endorse Tahnan's suggestion of locking/deleting all threads on the forum which lack constructive content.

So, can you predict the next thread that would be affected by this, if it were followed through?

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Beef Row wrote:
So, can you predict the next thread that would be affected by this, if it were followed through?

Nope. That's why I didn't ask a moderator to take action in the first place; I didn't want it to be some sort of policy. But anyone's free to delete their own post. Heck, I recently deleted one myself: I'd posted a bug report, which someone rapidly observed was already posted, and I thought, "there's nothing constructive in my post now, it's just clutter"; so I deleted it. So nu.

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I just want to say that I like this thread.

It is funny.
It is important because so many people post into it.
It is constructive since people are actually talking about locking and deleteing threads.
It also fulfill a need, for people that use the thread as their therapy.

With so many good reasons, you must agree with me that we keep this thread!

-- Tim

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bomber50
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The first post was modded to +100.

But I didn't do it.

Or did I?

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bomber50 wrote:
The first post was modded to +100.

But I didn't do it.

Or did I?

Well, it sure wasn't me...

np: Von Südenfed - That Sound Wiped (Tromatic Reflexxions)

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Beef Row
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Tahnan wrote:

Beef Row wrote:
So, can you predict the next thread that would be affected by this, if it were followed through?

Nope.

No, no, I don't think you understand... can you predict the next thread that would be affected by this? (+1 if you guess correctly)

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I know what you're hinting at (Predict the next poster...), but I don't think it should be locked. Useless? Certainly. But given time, I think I could give you a list of 25% of all threads which I think are useless, some started by me.

Locking at request of the original poster is fine by me. Locking at the request (or opinion) of the community is not. Locking as a result of moderator decision is also fine by me, because they have the power to do that, and they've shown that they can use it responsibly.

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Well, so I was requesting that the moderator make a decision. :-)

Hey, zex, while I've got you on the line: changed your mind about cracked orbs yet?

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Note how all of my comments were made previous to the ability to check orb associations with a mouse click, as opposed to a Beethro walk.

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Tahnan wrote:
Well, so I was requesting that the moderator make a decision. :-)

Hey, zex, while I've got you on the line: changed your mind about cracked orbs yet?

You do realise that you are keeping the thread alive now?

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Got any problem with that? We're here to PARTY!!!

Pilchard VIII
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Again, all my posts with the blowup smiley have been downmodded. But this time, I don't care if the person doing it is acting like a total jerk. It's just boring now.

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Maurog
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Well, I'm officially all out of points now. If the same people who modded your posts back up knowing full well it will result in me modding them back down do so again, you will have to wait some time before the posts that were modded up then down then back up will be modded back down again.

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Maurog's last post made me so confused I thought my head would explode! If only there were some way to express that in picture form...

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Maurog wrote:
Well, I'm officially all out of points now. If the same people who modded your posts back up knowing full well it will result in me modding them back down do so again, you will have to wait some time before the posts that were modded up then down then back up will be modded back down again.

Maybe it's because I'd just finished reading the Joke/Pun thread, but I laughed out loud at that. Maurog, you're at dire risk of making poor Pilchard sea-sick!

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Okay! I really, really wish NiroZ would stop using exploding smileys in most of his posts. They don't seem to fill any meaningfull prpose, like expressing any emotions. They are just there.

Apart from that I find it a bit amusing that one of my posts in this topic bounces back and forth between +1 and -1. It has happened many times in the last two weeks, and it feels quite absurd

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Personally, I wish he'd use more.

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Blondbeard
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May I ask why?

zonhin
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It's a statement I agree with. Who cares about all this crap? I may be biased because I've never been randomly modded down, but this forum seems like it'd been drama free (For the most part.) over the course of it's history, (Though I may be wrong, as I'm kind of new.) And it would be best to keep it that way.

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Blondbeard
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Zonhin wrote:
It's a statement I agree with. Who cares about all this crap? I may be biased because I've never been randomly modded down, but this forum seems like it'd been drama free (For the most part.) over the course of it's history, (Though I may be wrong, as I'm kind of new.) And it would be best to keep it that way.

What does that have to do with him using the exploding smiely more in all topics he posts in? That explanation doesn't make any sense at all to me. Furthermore I don't see the point of saying "who cares about this crap". It doesn't really seem like the ideal thing to say to let this topic fade away.

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The post didn't really mean anything, okay?

Edit: I also might want to mention that I haven't had as much sleep as I usually have lately.

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Not:

                            R.I.P
Random, uncalled for down-mods. Also, "mod all posts totally random" central.

Then?
Ah well...


PARTY!!!


THIS IS A FAKE BLOWUP

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zonhin
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Don't waste forum space. You darn kids.

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