- Halo53
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- Fabled Mythic Member
Yo Halo53, I'm real happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best bungie.net profiles of all time. OF ALL TIME!
Posted by: Silent Dreamer15
He wanted to keep the thread alive in order to keep collecting votes. There's only two days left. I don't see how it should have made any more of a distance
Exactly. The entire purpose of that thread, generating attention for a good cause, was very front-page centric. If the thread falls to the 2nd page, people do not see it, people do not vote, therefore a charity that is closely related to a member of this website is ignored. This could have been easily avoided had a temporary sticky been made.
And even if you could somehow convince me that everything I just said is wrong, nothing can defend locking a remake of the thread. The thread literally allowed users on this website to do something good and productive with their time here. Instead, a decision was made that the flood would be better off with pointless arguments about politics and justin bieber.
It really is the equivalent of a police officer giving you a ticket for jay walking to assist an elderly lady who had fallen down in a city like Detroit or Baltimore while drug deals and violent crimes are happening all around you. A minor rule was broken with good intentions. The bumping rule is created to stop people from posting in their own pointless threads 3, 4, 5 times in a row when no one else believes their topic is worth discussing.
These forums exist through the discussions that take place, so bumping threads that were deemed "Not discussion worthy" by the lack of posts by others messes with that fabric. When you contribute to an existing thread, you essentially "vote" to move that topic to the top of the front page. However, the thread discussed here was not built around discussion and would naturally fall off the first page once the initial wave of users had voted, not because the masses believed it was not a valuable thread but because of the nature of the topic, and therefore the bumping was not only harmless, but necessary.
Ironically enough, I feel like more attention has been brought to the thread because of the banning, so maybe in the long run this can be twisted into a good thing.