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TheEpicLolz
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada72 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-19 18:02:45
September 19 2010 17:59 GMT
#1
I don't understand it. Let's say someone DOES make a thread with a similar thread that was made 1 week ago. Why does it need to be closed even though the thread is getting active responses with little or no trolling on anybody's part?

Why do the mods need to close threads that NOBODY wants to be closed? If any sort of discussion is going on, just let it be.

User was banned for this post.
Lol :D
Servius_Fulvius
Profile Joined August 2009
United States947 Posts
September 19 2010 18:04 GMT
#2
I think you're going to be banned, but I think the answer you seek is in the forum 10 commandments:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=17883
TheEpicLolz
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada72 Posts
September 19 2010 18:06 GMT
#3
On September 20 2010 03:04 Servius_Fulvius wrote:
I think you're going to be banned, but I think the answer you seek is in the forum 10 commandments:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=17883



Lol, I'm going to be banned for starting a blog asking why active threads are locked for no reason? Give me a break. -.-
Lol :D
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9776 Posts
September 19 2010 18:08 GMT
#4
HEY DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE A WEBSITE FEEDBACK FORUM SECTION?! :D

LOOK BELOW BLOGS ON THE SIDEBAR
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also if you actually have something to say and there's already a thread i see no problem with bumping it...
boomer hands
drag_
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
England425 Posts
September 19 2010 18:08 GMT
#5
Because nobody wants to read the same garbage again and again and again. Obvious no?
TheEpicLolz
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada72 Posts
September 19 2010 18:12 GMT
#6
Lol, if I'M getting a hotkeys thread locked, and everyone else is having hotkey threads locked, oh wow, now we have zero hotkey threads because whoever makes another hotkey thread, that thread will get locked.

Go vicious circles!!
Lol :D
JWD
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States12607 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-19 18:14:11
September 19 2010 18:13 GMT
#7
Mods never close active threads for "no reason". They usually post their reasoning in the thread, before closing it. In addition we have a thread in Website Feedback dedicated to answering the question "why was my thread closed?".

Topics in TL's forums are each vying for the attention of our visitors here. The mods' goal is to help ensure that the best (most interesting, most useful, most likely to spur productive discussion) topics don't get lost in a sea of crappy topics. One simple way to make things easy to find / cut down on crappy topics is to close threads that are redundant.

There are people that want redundant threads closed — I'd guess a majority of forumgoers would prefer consolidated discussion, if only for their own convenience and to make the forums easier to use. Just because these people aren't posting in redundant topics saying "DON'T DISCUSS THIS ANYMORE" does not mean that these people don't exist.
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drag_
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
England425 Posts
September 19 2010 18:14 GMT
#8
On September 20 2010 03:12 TheEpicLolz wrote:
Lol, if I'M getting a hotkeys thread locked, and everyone else is having hotkey threads locked, oh wow, now we have zero hotkey threads because whoever makes another hotkey thread, that thread will get locked.

Go vicious circles!!

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/search.php?q=hotkey
100+ threads since May, I think we'll survive.
JWD
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States12607 Posts
September 19 2010 18:14 GMT
#9
On September 20 2010 03:14 drag_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2010 03:12 TheEpicLolz wrote:
Lol, if I'M getting a hotkeys thread locked, and everyone else is having hotkey threads locked, oh wow, now we have zero hotkey threads because whoever makes another hotkey thread, that thread will get locked.

Go vicious circles!!

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/search.php?q=hotkey
100+ threads since May, I think we'll survive.

lol.

search function: the dumb forumgoer's natural enemy
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huameng
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States1133 Posts
September 19 2010 18:16 GMT
#10
Because you should just use the old threads that already exist, not that one week counts as old. That way if someone does search for something, they don't have to look in ten different place; people also won't repeat things that have already been said in other threads which just clutters the forum.
skating
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
September 19 2010 18:17 GMT
#11
I'm done with hearing you complain. GTFO.
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