Sorry If i wanted to lock it till I knew it was alright to post so that the owners of this site didn't get in trouble. As for other threads being locked. When you have 4 or 5 pages of bickering going on and name calling the thread gets locked. If you tons of pictures of girls and links to pictures of girls even if they are booth girls it will get locked. It is a console forum. If you post 2 posts complaining about your thread being locked with out reading the reason why those extra threads will be locked.I'm locking this thread since I don't know if its allowed. I will ask the higher ups and if it is allowed then I will unlock it
I try to lock as many flame threads as possible. But many of the forum users get mad when I do. Its a catch 22. I just try the best that I can to keep the forum in line. I sometimes make mistakes. But i believe that 90% of the time i do a great job.nonamer said:Not enough IMO. The mods here should shut down those massive, on-topic flame wars when they show up, which they don't. Banning of some of the worse offenders is not happening. Be more aggressive, not less. For instance, tomorrow, when HL2 benchmarks come out, gear down for martial law. The flaming is out of hand here, and the forum sucks during that time.
jvd said:Since no one bothers to read my comments in the locked thread but yet felt the need to start 4 threads complaining about it being locked I will just quote my self
It is illegal to post emulators. So i locked the thread so the site owners would not get in trouble. This is being locked to. Site feed back is where a thread like this is meant to be.
I'm sorry but your wrongMagnum PI said:jvd said:Since no one bothers to read my comments in the locked thread but yet felt the need to start 4 threads complaining about it being locked I will just quote my self
that's what you said in the gamecube thread but was it accessible to us ? i don't remeber reading that post you quoted
It is illegal to post emulators. So i locked the thread so the site owners would not get in trouble. This is being locked to. Site feed back is where a thread like this is meant to be.
*and* that what i could read now that i created a thread here, yesterday in the same post i remember i only read you said that it's illegal to post emulators and *you didn't mention* that the matter could be discussed here. of course i may have memory problems...
the impression from the locked threads i just remember reading that you gave your motives and that we should avoid discussing the fact you locked the thread otherwise we would be banned... you shall not mess with your moderator !!
i think it has more to do w/ clumsiness (?) than an admiration of totalitarian regime but i found it to be a little bit "stalinian style" :/
what i don't understand also is why you locked thread when sometimes it seemed more appropriate to edit some posts, like in the thread w/ the booth babes..
and about the booth babes i don't see the problem w/ it as it isn't porn, it's only booth babes, you can see them when you go to the expo ! and this is not like this has nothing to do w/ consoles, it reflects the marketing policy of the publishers, it is very important
of course if it were booth babes from the car expo it would really have nothing to do with consoles..
of course i'm not qualified at all so i may be entirely wrong !
it's so easier to bitch about others work that to do the work...
regards, luc.
Here is the second post complaining about me locking the first.
Now in the second one you can see that the person who is complaining did not even bother to read about why i locked the thread. He just wanted to complain that I locked it . Here is his other post which another mod had locked. http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8202 . Two posts in the console forum meant to do nothing else but complain and start flames.
Now i don't care if people have a problem with what i do . Its the way that forum is . What I do care about is that none of these threads belong in that section. That is why there is a site feedback thread. And I doubt his two posts complaining about locked threads brought any valid arguements to the table .
It was very simple . I saw something which I thought might be harmfull to the site. SO i locked the thread until I could find out if it was harmfull or not. Now I know that emulation is okay to talk about but not roms. I wasn't far off in my thinking as emulators need roms to run the games. So it was not a far leap at all.