Admin and Mod

swish1 · Post by **swish1** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:23 am

I am trying to be mean or anything. Both Admins and Mods do a great job. But the only problem they do is doing too great of a job. I am sorry but you lock things too early. I was drowning all my time, few months ago, in the forums and like a billion times I see something really interesting and want to post and I see the lock sign. Just look at the general forum and all the pages in it. Tell me how many locks you see. Again you guys do a great job but can you please lessen the locks? One more thing most locks come with this message," I think this topic served its purpose." Lets say there is a topic called x and it discusses matters on x. In x lets say they think of another things called y. Now they start to discuss back and forth between y and x and staff locks it. People who still have problems with y will start a new topic. I am not saying thats wrong but lets say that y would have been solved with maybe a few more posts. Then the new topic would be a waste junking up room. Plus..... maybe in off topic locking will help get rid of it. But in General everything stays in the pages for a long long long time! So if things go to y instead of staying in x give it a few days to see if y will solve itself and then lock or again the forum will become humongous and its really, really annoying to some users of the forum, like me.

Sincerely,
-Swish

Theon · Post by **Theon** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:40 am

They're administrating and moderating. It's like saying there's too much security in airports, be thankful, helps keep terrorists from sitting next to you. A lot of the locked threads seem a bit poo anyway. That’s just what I think, but I am usually wrong and insignificant.

Retlak · Post by **Retlak** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:18 am

Swish is right about the x and y parts.

Lrmy · Post by **Lrmy** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:25 am

I do think 3/4ths of locked topics are locked justly. The other 4th is locked because it wants to be avoided and will just end up in another topic.

Swish, your posts are longer than they need to be for what you are saying. Though SOMETIMES you have a point.

Arameh · Post by **Arameh** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:30 am

Swish is kind of right on some points, I find it rather stupid when a topic is locked while the ones locking it knows someone will open a new one about the same subject anyway, it just makes more topics for no reason.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:03 am

The mods don't say "stay on topic" for no apparent reason.
Make a thread to discuss x.
Make a thread to discuss y.
I fail to see why this is a problem. When discussions involve proposals and such things that concern "the staff" to which they are referred now they can easily get to the x without all the y in the way. They would read topic y if they wanted to.

AlexRose · Post by **AlexRose** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:04 pm

Gro'bul wrote:The mods don't say "stay on topic" for no apparent reason.
Make a thread to discuss x.
Make a thread to discuss y.
I fail to see why this is a problem. When discussions involve proposals and such things that concern "the staff" to which they are referred now they can easily get to the x without all the y in the way. They would read topic y if they wanted to.

Don't encourage Swish to make new topics

Retlak · Post by **Retlak** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:29 pm

If X is related to Y then there should be no seperate topics for each, its just a waste of space and time.

for instance, a topic discussing concussion weapons and how they are different to slashing, but then the topic begins to talk about the slashing side aswell. Should not be made a new topic.

Bellringer · Post by **Bellringer** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:54 pm

I know extremely good forums where hardly anything is locked, it should be tried.

Azuros · Post by **Azuros** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:55 pm

bellringer wrote:I know extremely good forums where hardly anything is locked, it should be tried.

It would never work on this community

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:19 pm

Too many people quickly fall into immature habits here, so sadly it won't work. Many also just start shouting about something or someone (or call other people liars) without really checking all information on the related topics. We definitely need our board mods and admins, and they're doing a good job i think.

Llama · Post by **Llama** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:47 pm

*prays to an evil mod to lock it *

Markous · Post by **Markous** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:48 pm

Hadrian_Abela wrote:*prays to an evil mod to lock it *

Thy prayers have been heared, mortal.