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#1 Mar 18 2011 at 10:31 AM Rating: Good
Could thread locks end with the admin who locked it stating why?

Edited, Mar 21st 2011 2:14pm by Darqflame Lock Thread: Because Lubriderm is silly...
#2 Mar 18 2011 at 11:42 AM Rating: Excellent
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This is a reasonable request. Can you point me to the thread where this didn't happen?

UPDATE: Ah, you're talking about the earlier post in this forum. I'll find out what happened there.

Edited, Mar 18th 2011 12:44pm by Micajah
#3 Mar 18 2011 at 4:44 PM Rating: Good
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Wild guess would be that it got derailed into a potential flame fest.
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No flaming in the Feedback forum, at all. The initial thread topic was answered, people were starting to flame, we lock the thread. Because it was done.
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#5 Mar 18 2011 at 7:55 PM Rating: Decent
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I think Lubriderm means as a matter of policy, admins ought to say why they're locking a thread. I know some admins edit the OP to state why, but it's not terribly consistent. It's really annoying to see a thread has been locked with no idea why, particularly if it's only by request of the OP, which is less obvious than other reasons.
#6 Mar 19 2011 at 3:08 AM Rating: Good
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Majivo wrote:
I think Lubriderm means as a matter of policy, admins ought to say why they're locking a thread. I know some admins edit the OP to state why, but it's not terribly consistent. It's really annoying to see a thread has been locked with no idea why, particularly if it's only by request of the OP, which is less obvious than other reasons.
I second (Or third or whatever) this.
#7 Mar 19 2011 at 6:52 AM Rating: Good
Majivo wrote:
I think Lubriderm means as a matter of policy, admins ought to say why they're locking a thread. I know some admins edit the OP to state why, but it's not terribly consistent. It's really annoying to see a thread has been locked with no idea why, particularly if it's only by request of the OP, which is less obvious than other reasons.
Spot on with what I was thinking. Sometimes I'm left wondering why? A lot of us don't know all the inner rules where 'this' isn't allowed in 'that' forum and what not.
#8 Mar 19 2011 at 8:04 AM Rating: Good
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This is a reasonable request. Can you point me to the thread where this didn't happen?

UPDATE: Ah, you're talking about the earlier post in this forum. I'll find out what happened there.

Edited, Mar 18th 2011 12:44pm by Micajah


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No flaming in the Feedback forum, at all. The initial thread topic was answered, people were starting to flame, we lock the thread. Because it was done.

http://war.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=3&mid=1300200438142928582&page=1

No flaming, it did get silly, but no flaming.
#9 Mar 19 2011 at 12:20 PM Rating: Good
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I think the issue was with lolgaxe's post:

lolgaxe wrote:
A few years back, they invented this thing called skin. Try looking into it.


That's how a flame fest starts. Unless you're replying to someone in on the jargon - in a forum where that jargon is commonplace. Otherwise someone will take it the wrong way and you've got the aforementioned flame fest.

Edited, Mar 19th 2011 8:23pm by Mazra
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In before lock. Smiley: grin
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On a related note, could it become a matter of ZAM policy to actually reply to threads in the feedback forum? Sometimes it feels like we're just talking to ourselves over here. For example, some of these EQ threads have gone without admin attention for months, despite numerous bumps. Would it really be that hard to say "we're aware of this" or "this is a low priority for now" or something along those lines? Just let us know that some of the people on the coding side actually read this stuff.
#12 Mar 19 2011 at 1:37 PM Rating: Excellent
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We try to reply to most of them. Some of them are dev issues and need to be replied to by a dev as per current policy. Devs are also fairly busy.
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#13 Mar 19 2011 at 1:40 PM Rating: Good
Just a quick blurb on why, would be cool.
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An admin saying "We've read the topic, we'll get a Dev to look at it when time permits." would be enough I think.
It's just a confirmation that the topic isn't just being ignored, even if most people can guess that the devs are too busy to do something about it right then and there it's still nice to know that it's at least on someone's to-do list somewhere.

Edited, Mar 20th 2011 11:17am by Aethien
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With the exception of the brutally obvious ones of course. Unless you'd like to edit it to just say "Guess."
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#16 Mar 21 2011 at 10:41 AM Rating: Good
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Mazra wrote:
I think the issue was with lolgaxe's post:
Oh sure, blame me for saying what we were all thinking. Smiley: mad

Edited, Mar 21st 2011 12:42pm by lolgaxe
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#17 Mar 21 2011 at 12:03 PM Rating: Good
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lolgaxe wrote:
Mazra wrote:
I think the issue was with lolgaxe's post:
Oh sure, blame me for saying what we were all thinking. Smiley: mad


Smiley: wink

Yeah, and I agree with it. Just trying to explain what part might have triggered the lock. Smiley: tongue
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When a post is locked, the reason why is usually placed in the original post. I will lock this one to show how that works.
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