The why was my thread closed topic - Page 13

On August 19 2010 05:45 Chill wrote:
Yes, I will continue to close any balance thread in the Starcraft 2 section. Read on!

Starcraft players live in a world confined by rules (the game data is made by Blizzard - we can't change it). Posting how to bend those rules (glitches, tricks) is very valuable. Posting how to maximize our abilities in that world (strategy, tactics, mechanics build orders) is also very valuable. Identifying problems with the rules (racial balance threads, unit balance threads) help us to fully understand the potential of the rules. Asking for help about the world (help threads, posting replays) is encouraged.

However, posting that you wish the rules were changed has no value. Because the rules are the rules. It doesn't matter how you want them to be, because you will not get them changed. So it boils down to your own personal opinion. Which means it should be a blog ("These are my views on StarCraft II", "How I wish StarCraft II was").

To further the analogy: Scientific threads would go in general; Medical breakthrough threads would go in general; Professional style and relationship advice would go in general; "I wish the universe was set up so when I closed my eyes lasers shot out of my fingers" would go in blogs.

Do you agree?

On August 18 2010 05:30 Chill wrote:
I don't get why people do this. Yea, I could probably dig in the closed forum for it, but had you just provided a link I'd be way more willing to help you.

On August 19 2010 05:45 Chill wrote:
However, posting that you wish the rules were changed has no value. Because the rules are the rules. It doesn't matter how you want them to be, because you will not get them changed. So it boils down to your own personal opinion. Which means it should be a blog ("These are my views on StarCraft II", "How I wish StarCraft II was").

On August 19 2010 09:58 Chill wrote:
Link.

On August 19 2010 09:18 QuickStriker wrote:
I want to say this here and now that I have this passion and desire to spread and share information to TLers that seems interesting and out of ordinary. Yes, I mean news and I try hard to dig up the most weirdest/interesting/wtf news only because I want to make their reading worthwhile as well as not to make the mistake of repeating the bad things that happen on the news. So I am a bit sad that my last news thread closed down because I did spread time to read various articles and found it obliged to give TLers the most interesting news I can find to inform them for those who don't read the news at all.

Sure, you may be thinking, if you want to read news, just go to news site and all, but most of you guys don't really do that. I highly doubt some people here know what goes on outside of TL or IRL b/c they play SC or something that doesn't have to do with information. That's where I want to come in by providing the most interesting news of the day... so I'm not allowed to do that? Is it wrong to educate TLers at least in this form of way?

Also want to add that, many others would always post news that they deem interesting on the forums and they don't get closed. Or is it that there have to be a certain qualifications/requirements to post such a news thread now? If so, what do you deem as to post a news thread. Because I don't get why I can't post 1 news thread per day when others do all the time.

On August 19 2010 12:09 Jibba wrote:

Nobody else has ever made 1 news thread per day, and I don't think it would be a good thing. I'm glad you put more effort into your OP than most News threads, but I think Mani covered it well. That's really old and mundane news.

On August 19 2010 18:56 Manifesto7 wrote:
No it isn't. It just means people who read CNN are stupid. It has been old news for a long time.

Interesting news where there is something to discuss is fine. Your daily news thread is not. Very rarely other people have brought in regular news, nobody has done it once a day, and in the end it has always turned into a forced endeavor.

On August 20 2010 09:15 OHtRUe wrote:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=145710

I dont see any valid reason to close my thread? Did it get closed because i said the word imbalance or what? Or is it because you cant complain about precious SC2? No PM and no closed message frustrates me extremely

Every single map favors Terran versus Zerg as they all have zero space to maneuver and with the terrible wide open seconds and impossible to get thirds. 90% of them favor gigantic All in's with these terrible back doors and wide open ramps. Cant forget that having cliffs everywhere and random terrain is amazing map design as well!

On August 20 2010 09:49 QuickStriker wrote:
Once again, I want to correct this and say that the airline news has also been on WABC prime time news today as well as the noon time. As an intern at WABC news now, I get information and news coming in so quickly and fast that I have to constantly update and help manage the 7online.com website. So I want to claim that it's very recent news as it has been shown in AP, WABC, and CNN regarding this particular story I outlined yesterday. Calling it old news when three major media outlets reports it (and I will assume others as well like NY Times) is really sad to hear since I see it in front of my eyes.

Secondly, I am promoting and encouraging TLers to be more informative and active with reading and following information by doing this light news feed of top 1 story I can find per day. It's good for many reasons for both me and everyone else, where people will be more open to read news since like I mention, most of TLers here and you probably don't read as much news as you should. News and information is very important in this world currently and I want to encourage everyone to keep up with times and be informative and become stronger in mind.

Since I will only bring the most latest news per day, that's another reason why I feel is important. News thread are usually days old or weeks old even when it becomes outdated in the outside world which isn't good at all. Let's say you get this news today from me and it become a hot topic for a while in the real world, people can go outside freely and talk about this news instead of being blind about it and be the first one to start up the conversation or to lead it b/c you got the information faster. In any case, it's all good intention so I don't get why you can't see that at all.

Lastly, I am doing this for myself as well to keep a good habit to be pro-active and have a goodwill consistency that can enable me to be known as a more virtuous person. It's still an experiment to do this but it's something I want to keep a habit of and show that I can do something to TLers that is actually useful and easy for me to do. So in a sense, a PR stunt but not really, just another way to look at it.

I'm continuing this method today as I will try my hardest to find the most interesting news possible to share information to users and have an interesting heated discussion to exercise our minds. So please understand the good intentions of this and if you do wish to stop me, then give me set of good reasons why I'm not allowed to contribute to community at all. Thank you.

If you have flown in the last two years, you know airlines charge more for certain coach seats. It is on TV to record people's outrage just like your thread was designed to do too.

You can't speak on how much news the "average TLer" reads or doesn't read. In fact, you have no idea.

Again, news threads are not weeks old by the time they come to TL. You are just making things up now.

I think posting a thread a day about a shocking news event, and then having 4 pages of people saying "omg that is nuts" and then having it devolve into four pages of flaming is not a great way to contribute. And guess what, "Man shot 21 times" is exactly the type of thread it will happen in. Trust me, I've been on TL long enough to know.