The why was my thread closed topic - Page 40

On December 25 2011 17:52 jsemmens wrote:
I just wanted to mention that I thought the rules on OPs should maybe have been bent a little bit for [Giveaway] Signed progamer stuff / D3 key. I am aware that self-promotion is discouraged on this website, but I felt that, since Moletrap has been a long time contributor to the Starcraft community since the Brood War days, he ought to have been given more latitude, especially since he's going out of his way to buy and send stuff to members of the community (and it's not like he's been making lots of money off his youtube account or stream either).

Thank you for listening to my two cents.

On December 14 2011 19:20 KwarK wrote:

General forum is for big general topics of general interest. Looking at it now we've got Anime Discussion, [TV] Dexter, some crap about death row, more crap about korean skyscrapers, the kind of stuff that random people may want to discuss.

Now, your topic provided no content and was basically you saying "hey guys, who would win in a fight between X and Y, ps charity may be involved somehow in a purely hypothetical way". This is a topic often discussed by 8 year olds, generally on subjects such as a t-rex and some guys from the film 300. It wasn't based on any real situation, big question, important subject or anything else. It was just some thought that occurred to you that you had a desperate urge to post in our general forum. The only possibly relevant aspect of it was that you picked starcraft 2 as the subject which would make it relevant to a different subforum to the one you put it in.

So, to sum up.
It was shit.
It had no content, either intellectual or debatewise
It was in the wrong forum (although if it was in SC2 it'd still be shit)
Maybe you're 8?

On January 01 2012 10:46 picklezz wrote:
Bullshit.

I had a genuine curiousity about the levelling system in starcraft 2, and thought it would be an interesting scenario to play out, in which almost every poster who replied agreed with me, which generated much debate and interest.

Ok... So maybe its the wrong sub forum... Ok, maybe it's not appropriate for the starcraft 2 general forum... But to say its like an 8 year old comparing T rex to... whoever...That was a valid point to make? You really think so?

Ironic that he calls me the 8 year old.. Worst moderator on a forum ever.

On January 28 2012 01:17 Leviance wrote:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=306566

So there is a thread that doesn't hurt anybody, is enjoyed by many (view post rate) and doesn't get over the top and it is just closed!? and the mod who closes it just writes:

Harem: "[...] bad and unfunny threads where people just keep listing stuff"

unfunny is highly subjective - taken into account the rapid growth of answers and people joining the fun it can't be that unfunny.

"where people just keep listing stuff" - that was the point to have fun together? how can you not join without "listing stuff"?

So I am shocked how Mods can close a thread just because of their personal opinion O_O I'm sure other mods find this subjectively funny. Plz re-open it for those who enjoy :/ or move it to blogs maybe? plz tell me how Harem can close this just because he thinks it's unfunny

Quotes from people:
10/10 would read again XD so le funny

Lol not bad. 8 out of 10 stars

i found this thread more interesting than the actual team ones

haha well played sir!

Haha, I woke up to this, nicely done

Very clever lol 9 out of 10

I lol'd, xD

lol'ed so hard

great thread, though
LOL

Hahah, so good.
8/10

nicely done lololol


can't be unfunny to everyone

On January 31 2012 17:27 zatic wrote:
Most of us feel they have more value though, that's why they stay open.

On February 11 2012 01:44 Aeres wrote:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=310620

Chill said he closed the thread because it had a bad OP. However, I talked with the person who posted it, and from what he tells me, the information is fairly reliable. Might I receive an elaboration as to what caused the thread to be locked? What was it lacking?

On February 11 2012 01:46 bonifaceviii wrote:

If you read the rest of the thread, the assumption of the original post does not necessarily follow from the information presented in the conference call.

For people confused about the call... Diablo 3 has been confirmed for this year, aiming for a Q2 release. Of the remaining two titles, Mists of Pandaria will either come out this year or Blizzard will lose millions more WoW players. Anyone who has played WoW before knows it's simply not possible to run the same raid for over a year (which is what would happen if Mists of Pandaria isn't released in Q2/Q3 of this year).

So yes, while they don't specifically say "HOTS won't be out this year" it's very obvious that HOTS is the third wheel here. It could be released in 2012 but as of today they don't anticipate it.