@ghost-of-a-duke saidThanks for helping me to prove my point I was making goad.
With good justification.
Go make a club and you can all get into it there and I will not join, not like it would be the first time you've done so! 😛 😉 Didn't go as well as you assumed it would Eh?! 🙂 😛
-VR
@very-rusty saidAgain what? I'm aware that posts can be alerted, and that posts will not be removed only by dint of their expressing a differing opinion. I'm also aware that personal insults are likely to be be removed by the moderators, which is why I said that things as they are are about as good as it gets in this respect.
Again Phil, that is what the Site Moderators do, all you have to do is alert it.
Now they are not going to remove it just because you don't like what was said, it would have to be against the TOS!
-VR
@indonesia-phil saidaware that posts can be alerted, and that posts will not be removed only by 'dint' of their expressing a differing opinion.
Again what? I'm aware that posts can be alerted, and that posts will not be removed only by dint of their expressing a differing opinion. I'm also aware that personal insults are likely to be be removed by the moderators, which is why I said that things as they are are about as good as it gets in this respect.
Is there a typo in your above statement?
Then you see no need in what is being suggested that should have went in site ideas by the way but the OP knew no better, or figured it wouldn't be seen by as many people. I can't read minds completely yet. 😉
I see nothing wrong with the way things are now being done and the Moderators are doing a fine job Moderating I get no brownie points for that. They will still remove a post of mine if the Moderator feels it was not appropriate. I may not always agree, but am not going to win that argument so don't even go there.
-VR
@indonesia-phil saidAgain we have the Site Moderators to do just that Phil!
Agreed, you can't allow censorship to that extent; peoples' opinions differ, that's the point of discussion, if we all agreed with each other or were only allowed to post in agreeable terms then life might get boring. We should be able to mod - out personal insults, so the way things are is probably as good as it gets.
-VR
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@fmf saidIn my opinion this should have been put in "Site Ideas" to begin with not the Gf, as I said it was probably thought by the OP rightfully so, it would be seen by more people.
Thread drift is OK.
I remember once having a thread moved from a the GF to another site because they claimed that was the site it belonged in. Now it doesn't seem to matter where the Thread goes.
-VR
@handyandy saidAndy,
Should the thread creator have the right to close the thread?
Not remove the thread, close the thread.
You have a legitimate question here.
I believe the OP or creator of the thread as you put it should have to message a Moderator to have said thread closed. I don't think we should have the right to close a thread. Wasn't it goad or someone said that the creator doesn't own the thread, I believe they had a good point.
I believe it should be left up to someone who is not bias to close the thread, you would give your reasons for wanting the thread closed and the Moderator could decide if it was valid. That is why the Moderators are picked because Russ feels they would do the best job.
I am happy to see that they now don't banter with the poster then ban them. In fact I haven't seen or heard of anyone getting a forum ban in a very long time, with a few exception's and we all know about those few exceptions.
-VR
@handyandy saidI would say, yes
Should the thread creator have the right to close the thread?
Not remove the thread, close the thread.
@earl-of-trumps saidAs I said, I think things are OK as they are.
As one other poster pointed out, drifting has created some of the most spirited threads.
Now, just because the thread starter has the right to delete a post that drifts does not mean he *will*.
I also think that it's ironic that a poisonous misanthropic potty mouth like yourself - as evidenced by your postinng on the Debates Forum, which is an utter cesspool because of posters like you - is here musing about "the way posting ought to be".
@earl-of-trumps saidI don't think thread starters should have any "rights" other than the right to post and the right to start threads.
Now, just because the thread starter has the right to delete a post that drifts does not mean he *will*.