- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
No, there was a massive thread on "unlocking the secret behind the recon armor" (or something like that) that was huge and thousands of replies and whatnot.
Then lukems comes in and says (criptically) you can't unlock it. Of course, people took his words and tried to twist them into "we can unlock it!"
Eventually too many threads were created and it became spam. Recon threads would literally be created 10 times a day.
The admins, mods, (and sensible people) told those who insisted that Recon can be unlocked that it can't, yet threads continued to litter the forums. Thus, mods are notified to lock Recon threads because it's a dead horse topic.
Ahhhhhh... now that makes a little bit of sense, I guess. However, I have already found this thread to be quite constructive.
But what's there to discuss?
So far:
1. The psychological ramifications of forbidding a topic of discussion, and its resultants (this thread for one).
2. The moral question, "Do good people obey bad laws?" This is probably a bit academic for this forum, but I find both of your answers, both in content, context and tone, to be very interesting and actually worth the post itself.
We can't have it unless we earn it........
Would that not make the Armor that Must Not be Named worth discussing, especially as it is doled out as a "reward" by the Bungie Staff for f'eats de increable?
I don't see how you can make a discussion thread on something that has to be earned. And there's a sticky that details the Recon situation too.
True enough, I guess.
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The amount of recon threads resulted into a huge amount of spam, that's what all of them were. They filled up the entire first page and beyond. All actual worthy threads were pushed aside.
They contributed nothing, the same thing was asked over and over again till people got sick of it, and wanted a solution to the ruining of the forums. The solution? No more recon threads.
Ah-ha. Now this I can understand, market demands/fulfillment based upon the changing desires of the consumer.
Fair Enough.
[Edited on 01.14.2008 3:57 AM PST]