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Subject: Should the mods be given the options to delete threads?

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Posted by: necare
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Having a "huge number of locked threads on the front page of a forum" may be (to you) a hindrance to participation and discussion. That is your conclusion when looking at the situation.

My point is that when I see a "huge number of locked threads on the front page of the forum" I come to the conclusion that many members made threads that violated the rules and that a moderator was doing their job.

You see, we both look at the same situation and come to different conclusions as to what it represents.

They are not mutually exclusive. I also come to the conclusion that locked threads = moderators locking threads = moderators locking their job. Saying locked threads hinder discussion does not mean that is the only conclusion. having one opinion does not mean you are not allowed another. [i.e. what follows it pointless]

I am of the opinion that if people were using the forums properly, there would be fewer locked threads "cluttering things up". It appears that your opinion is that the locked threads are the problem as they prevent people from using the forums as they were intended. I say that they are the result of the forums not being used as they are intended.
They are both true. Is that hard to understand? move the threads off the page.

Are the moderators still doing their job? yes.
Is discussion being hindered? no.

the question is, do you want locked threads on the front of a forum? if so, why? having locked threads will not stop users violating the rules.

But our disagreement is unlikely to change the practice.
of course not! how silly of me to consider it.


After all that you still fail to realise that the use of the "Next Page" button opens up a whole new page for you to discuss.

Would removing locked threads stop users violationg rules? No, but since there nothing for newer users to see they will unknowingly break rules because there is no reference for them to use. Even with the forum rules, which aren't to specific, people will not know all the rules. Locked threads provide a template of sorts for newer users to use.

  • 02.04.2007 11:33 AM PDT
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Locking threads rather than deleting is actually better. It serves as a guideline on where to post and what kinds of topics that should be posted.

  • 02.04.2007 1:15 PM PDT

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Posted by: Durandal
Locking threads rather than deleting is actually better. It serves as a guideline on where to post and what kinds of topics that should be posted.
I have said this before. That and it is used to avod confusion.

  • 02.04.2007 1:17 PM PDT
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just a suggestion (hopefully this is not said allredy i am in a time crunch and did not read every thing in this one) this may be very hard to do and i dont know what the implacaions would be but hear is an idea waht if we bungie where to make a seperat forums page within each one of the forums page where all of the looked forums would be sent. just incase my discription is to vage it would go somthing like this

you enter bungie.net you click on forms you see the same old list of (the undergrond exe) and you select one. now whithin there you have your choice of veiwing the looked out forums and all of the othere now this might be dissorganized so hear is an othere idea

this would definitely take big changes to the forums page and this might just be to outragius but if there could be some way of salecting if you want to veiw the forums by name or by date writan or evan if you can view them by loked out or not

[Edited on 2/4/2007]

  • 02.04.2007 1:19 PM PDT

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