Revival of Locked Threads

calirepub · 2018-10-21T13:20:36.754Z

Dem:

It would be nice if when posts are removed or a thread locked, we could get a small explanation as to why. Sometimes a decent conversation will be had, and then poof, posts will disappear, and I’m left wondering what was inappropriate.

According to one of the Mods, when a post is deleted, all the responses to that same post will also be deleted. Whole conversations can be lost that way.

Avoid going personal is my motto.

calirepub · 2018-10-21T17:19:54.852Z

@Snow96 @GWH

Can I get an official answer?

Snow96 · 2018-10-21T17:24:03.729Z

When a thread becomes a problem (and the last one locked was a HUGE problem) they get locked.

Snow96 · 2018-10-21T17:25:23.886Z

When a post is reported, we look at that post. When we hit delete it askes if we want to delete just the post, or all reply’s to it. Since it doesn’t give option on each reply, it’s delete all so any quotes of the violation vanish (usually) as well.

calirepub · 2018-10-21T17:27:14.428Z

Snow96:

When a thread becomes a problem (and the last one locked was a HUGE problem) they get locked.

Is the conversation in a particular thread a problem, or is the topic of the thread inherently going to be problematic, and therefore we should no longer attempt to discuss that specific topic anymore?

Dem · 2018-10-21T17:31:28.877Z

Snow96:

When a thread becomes a problem (and the last one locked was a HUGE problem) they get locked.

So are certain topics off limits?

MichaelScarn · 2018-10-21T17:33:37.706Z

Can we repost the same thread again? A lot of us wanted to discuss it.

Kyshia · 2018-10-21T17:47:03.000Z

One strategy for posters who do not like a thread about a topic that makes them uncomfortable is to flag everything in the hopes that the moderator will just take that thread away.

That strategy seems to be working.

I know now that I shouldn’t make any threads about politicians tweeting their support for white nationalists, for example, because the result will be flag spamming and thread deletion.

Kyshia · 2018-10-21T17:48:07.463Z

Maybe people who spam the flag button should get a timeout so that the rest of us can enjoy more discussion.

Kyshia · 2018-10-21T17:49:27.613Z

Imagine how much easier the moderators’ jobs would be.

conan · 2018-10-21T18:11:49.921Z

Good thing that “some” people aren’t moderators here.

Kyshia · 2018-10-21T18:20:58.702Z

How do you get away with these responses as consistently as you do?

conan · 2018-10-21T18:25:18.002Z

Then start a petition to ban me.

Dem · 2018-10-21T18:25:45.921Z

The forums do seem to be moderated strictor than they used to be.

Kyshia · 2018-10-21T18:30:41.310Z

conan:

Then start a petition to ban me.

It’s impressive what you get away with, when you aren’t making intelligent, informative posts that see past the media narratives. I’ve learned a lot from you, when you aren’t making occasional posts like the one you made in this thread.

I don’t know why I would start a petition to take that knowledge away from myself. I’m not a masochist.

The good overwhelmingly outweighs the bad. Maybe that’s why you can say things that would get me a timeout if I said them.

Kyshia · 2018-10-21T18:32:43.012Z

Dem:

The forums do seem to be moderated strictor than they used to be.

I think that there is a direct relationship between the number of flagged posts, the number of closed threads, and the time that moderators have to spend moderating.

There must be an efficient solution.

conan · 2018-10-21T18:37:38.178Z

The mods are doing just fine. I known them for years and I know what they do for a living, they have voluntary donated their time here. And they are using the tools they have on this new forum to lesson their work load.

I don’t blame em for taking advantage of those tools.

Kyshia · 2018-10-21T18:42:03.376Z

Well, I wouldn’t say that they’re doing just fine. I think your post understates their contribution here. I think that they’re doing excellent work, and I wouldn’t qualify it in the way that you have.

I think that a few bad apples are the problem, and those few bad apples are trying to take advantage of the moderators.

That’s what we’re really talking about here.

conan · 2018-10-21T18:55:34.419Z

Kyshia:

How do you get away with these responses as consistently as you do?

So we now know who is the bad apply here don’t we?

Kyshia:

Well, I wouldn’t say that they’re doing just fine. I think your post understates their contribution here. I think that they’re doing excellent work, and I wouldn’t qualify it in the way that you have.

I think that a few bad apples are the problem, and those few bad apples are trying to take advantage of the moderators.

That’s what we’re really talking about here.

Now let me remind people. This is a conservative forum hosted by a conservative individual so we can debate conservative principles.

But that’s not what’s happening here in must cases now is it?

Just the fact that certain individuals come here and accuse conservatives of being racist shuts down any conversations that we might have.

Now earlier in this thread you said and I quote.

I know now that I shouldn’t make any threads about politicians tweeting their support for white nationalists, for example, because the result will be flag spamming and thread deletion.

This is what happen here all the time, a attempt to paint all conservatives as racist white nationalist…on a conservative forum no less.

Which tells me that individual has no intentions of having honest debate.

Kyshia · 2018-10-21T18:58:20.826Z

Thank you. That’s the kind of intelligent, informative post that I was talking about earlier.

I learned a lot.