AYY-BEE-CEE
Mar 21, 2004, 08:28 AM
Yes, I accept that this website is run by these guys and they can choose what they see suitable to be posted and whether or not posts can be locked, but I felt very strongly by one such locking on this board I felt I had to reply.
Someone had started a thread explaining that his life was a b*tch and how he and others like him were bullied in school and left with a pretty miserable life after that.
The final post of that thread was by the moderator Abdur101 (I think) who made a very unhelpful reply about 'Stop moaning, other people have worse lives' and then using the old 'famine and starvation' speech. While I understand these are also problems faced by the world, this was irrelevant and unnecessary to the thread and was a rather pathetic moan at someone who has a genuine problem in life of a certain kind.
Then this moderator went and locked the thread on his post. I honestly believe if you're going to lock a thread you should have the last post be impartial in the topic and this post was not. I also wanted to make a constructive post on this thread but could not because of the ignorant guy who locked it.
While I don't think people should be posting their life problems on a forum about a game, I think we should answer people's cries in a mature and sensible way, so please could the moderators recognise the way in which they should be carrying out their job.
This a forum for b*tching, so why lock posts that do just that (unless they contain 1000+ expletives and racist comments)? If you just lock posts that are difficult topics or are an attack on the establishment (i.e. the moderators in this case), you're just eligible for being compared with organisations such as the Nazis, who ultimately denied the freedom of speech.
Message boards are full of interesting problems that people like me like to read and contribute in their own individual ways. Therefore, I cannot object to Abdur's post but I will object to fact he made that post and then locked it. Please don't ruin this (superb) board like this!
Someone had started a thread explaining that his life was a b*tch and how he and others like him were bullied in school and left with a pretty miserable life after that.
The final post of that thread was by the moderator Abdur101 (I think) who made a very unhelpful reply about 'Stop moaning, other people have worse lives' and then using the old 'famine and starvation' speech. While I understand these are also problems faced by the world, this was irrelevant and unnecessary to the thread and was a rather pathetic moan at someone who has a genuine problem in life of a certain kind.
Then this moderator went and locked the thread on his post. I honestly believe if you're going to lock a thread you should have the last post be impartial in the topic and this post was not. I also wanted to make a constructive post on this thread but could not because of the ignorant guy who locked it.
While I don't think people should be posting their life problems on a forum about a game, I think we should answer people's cries in a mature and sensible way, so please could the moderators recognise the way in which they should be carrying out their job.
This a forum for b*tching, so why lock posts that do just that (unless they contain 1000+ expletives and racist comments)? If you just lock posts that are difficult topics or are an attack on the establishment (i.e. the moderators in this case), you're just eligible for being compared with organisations such as the Nazis, who ultimately denied the freedom of speech.
Message boards are full of interesting problems that people like me like to read and contribute in their own individual ways. Therefore, I cannot object to Abdur's post but I will object to fact he made that post and then locked it. Please don't ruin this (superb) board like this!