Why Was "Needles" Closed? [locked]

2005-03-13 08:06:22 pm

http://www.metroid2002.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2417&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=100

Why was the topic called "Needles" closed?
Because mangadood and that other person spammed it? Why not give warnings and delete the posts rather then close the whole topic?

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arkarian

2005-03-13 08:12:56 pm

red chamber dream

Because it was just a waste of time. The topic didn't have all that much to it in the first place, and locking the topic solves the problem of spam much more efficiently than deleting posts. And warnings were not really necessary.

Superion

2005-03-13 08:15:11 pm

mangadood;
"*poops*
01011001 01100101 01100001 00101100 00100000 01100010 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100100 00101110"

Skreemaster;
"0A013447D3D42A00C2162FA12D2E2F8...G?!

5965612C20626C616E642E"

Then is SPAM allowed on this forum now or what?

arkarian

2005-03-13 08:18:08 pm

red chamber dream

No, it's not; that's why the topic was locked. If it happens in other topics as well, warnings will may given out, or the topic may be locked also. I think that most of the mods feel that simply locking a spam-ish topic is overall most effective, though.

USBCD36

2005-03-13 08:29:28 pm

Don't mean to mini-mod, but you're not supposed to do this either. (ask why something was locked; it's in the rules)

arkarian

2005-03-13 08:40:36 pm

red chamber dream

Actually, it's not in the Rules. There's a Policy about respecting the decisions of mods/admins, but that's all. Soupy's question was okay, in my opinion. And USBCD36, I do consider that mini-modding, especially since that's not even in the Rules. So don't do that again.
But Soupy, please know that all topics that are locked will stay locked, and no reason for such needs to be given.

radu242

2005-03-13 08:46:18 pm

Quote from Arkarian:

Actually, it's not in the Rules. There's a Policy about respecting the decisions of mods/admins, but that's all. Soupy's question was okay, in my opinion. And USBCD36, I do consider that mini-modding, especially since that's not even in the Rules. So don't do that again.
But Soupy, please know that all topics that are locked will stay locked, and no reason for such needs to be given.

...
The topic was locked before you posted...

arkarian

2005-03-13 08:48:31 pm

red chamber dream

I know...what does that have to do with what I said?

radu242

2005-03-13 08:56:55 pm

Quote from Arkarian:

I know...what does that have to do with what I said?

Quote from Arkarian:

Actually, it's not in the Rules. There's a Policy about respecting the decisions of mods/admins, but that's all. Soupy's question was okay, in my opinion. And USBCD36, I do consider that mini-modding, especially since that's not even in the Rules. So don't do that again.
But Soupy, please know that all topics that are locked will stay locked , and no reason for such needs to be given.

arkarian

2005-03-13 08:59:13 pm

red chamber dream

Right. The "Needles" topic is locked, and it will stay that way.

Yoshi348

2005-03-13 09:32:25 pm

PAGE BREAKER

Ready and willing.

Mods and Admins can post in locked topics without unlocking them.

Toozin

2005-03-14 12:51:21 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

THE WORD OF MOD IS LAW. YOU WILL NOT QUESTION THE WORD OF MOD.

Yoshi348

2005-03-14 12:52:27 pm

PAGE BREAKER

Ready and willing.

Why did you use bright yellow text? Didn't you ever ONCE think of the subSilver users? Why do fools fall in love?

Toozin

2005-03-14 12:54:02 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Happy?

Ekarderif

2005-03-14 02:38:37 pm

No, you should never adapt your formatting because the select few (who suck because they don't use smartDark) complain.

Chanoire

2005-03-14 03:12:47 pm

It doesn't seem that unreasonable to ask for a reason when there's no obvious punitive action taken, so that posting which leads to lockage can be avoided in the future. I don't think anyone was asking about unlocking the topic, just the reason for it. Still, perhaps mods/admins can more consistently post their reasons for locking a topic in the topic itself at the time of locking?

arkarian

2005-03-14 03:16:35 pm

red chamber dream

Maybe it's not that unreasonable, but we're still not obligated to give a reason. If we do, it's just curteousness, because users ought to know the rules.

Yoshi348

2005-03-14 05:18:24 pm

PAGE BREAKER

Ready and willing.

Personally, my view is that 99% of the time, it's rather obvious why a topic is closed, and 99% if we have to explain it, it shouldn't have been locked.

tomatobob

2005-03-14 08:54:54 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

In the case of the topic in question, I think it reason for being locked was quite obvious, what with it eventually boiling down to people posting the word poop.

Yoshi348

2005-03-14 09:00:46 pm

PAGE BREAKER

Ready and willing.

*poop*

...Nevermind.

arkarian

2005-03-14 09:10:14 pm

red chamber dream

At any rate, it boils down to this: If a topic has been locked, it has been for a reason. The reason ought to be blatantly obvious, but if it is not, then please trust that there is a valid reason. Topics don't just get locked for nothing. No, mods/admins don't have to explain why a topic was locked, but we will sometimes do so anyway. Asking why a topic was locked is okay, but please PM a mod/admin to do this. Don't create a new topic about it. And I believe that, in this case, if you read the "Needles" topic, you should know why the topic was locked.

By the way, any posts or topics asking that a topic be unlocked in order to continue the thread will be ignored, deleted, or locked.

I don't see a reason to keep this topic open, now that this has been explained numerous times by various admins/mods, so...poop.