kryo

I didn't KNOW it was locked while i was typing, thinking, typoeing, evaluating, checking (getting my coffee cup out of the Microwave, answering the phone, etc )  my reply... it was relevant in that particular manner (call it, bad timing) -- but how should i guess if any other threads will get locked under these conditions?

All i'm asking is IF such threads belong to JoeUser -- are they unsalvagable and, as a result, removed some peoples time & opinions expressed?

I can give a perfect example of what these kind of threads can do to a community.

Many years ago there was a lot of speculation about what was going to be done with Iraq. At that point WinCustomize was a small and friendly community - until the infamous Iraq thread. Suddenly community members were at each others throats. This started to spill over into other threads, a number of people developed bad attitudes and the site degenerated.

Topics such as politics and religion should be kept to sites designed for that purpose. People have such opposing views that things never end well.

If you're going to say such and such is not allowed here but is allowed there then doesn't it at least behoove you to publish *which* forums there are not shared here?

Where is here anyway? Even the moderators have no idea where someone is posting from. Everyone thinks that here is the site that they frequent but it's not.

I happen to know that /forum/412 exists on Joe User and GalCiv2 and many other places. However most people have no idea. What about the other 755 forums? Can someone tell me specifically which ones are *safe* and which ones are prohibited?

My specific compliant is not about the locking of threads or deleted content. In my opinion not enough threads are locked or enough content deleted. My complaint is that what used to be the GalCiv2 site has essentially become the Off-topic/Impulse/Personal Computing site.

I dearly hope you're being satirical.

wow, quoting and responding to a reply 3 months short of 2 yrs old...

that's just so... so...

oh wait.

forgot, it's the internet.

never mind.

Thx for that

....(could move the entire Off Topic Forum to JU, in my opinion.) 

If I had my druthers I would prefer to post on all sites *except* for JU and WinCustomize as those sites seem to have a much different type of clientele that in general I would prefer to not associate with. But I don't have my druthers so the only way to reach those that I do feel I have something in common with is to use the Off-topic forum and hope that most JU denizens will realize that since the post is not in their Politics forum that it was most likely not addressed to them and therefore will be less likely to respond.

Mumble's health care thread looks reasonably civil as yet, so I see no need to bother it. Can't say the same for those other threads, whose author seems to thrive on contention.

My post had to do with relevance to WC, not civilty. I wasn't aware the number of and/or frequency of foul language was related to Thread site. I thought subject was the criterion.

Eventually as the normal site specific traffic slowed down then as a percentage the Off-topic along with Impulse and Personal Computing traffic became the predominate traffic. In some sense it's damned if you do or damned if you don't because what's essentially happening is that the site is dying and if it were left to it's own devices it would probably die out completely.

I can only say the same thing that was said to me when I made these very same complaints and that is you can clearly see that these posts originate in the Off-topic forum and if they really don't interest you then you really don't *have* to open the thread and read stuff that you know is only going to annoy you.

I know this is easier said than done because of the "train wreck" syndrome but that's the best I got. Ideally folks should have some control over who they wish to target as their audience but such is not the case and those that make the decisions have made it clear that the forum sharing will continue "as is".