Closing a thread/ deleting a thread

[Kantarii]

I can understand why some threads are moved around on the site. But can someone please tell me why some threads I have run across on the site are closed and not deleted; just hanging in cyberspace?
Seems like a waste of time to close a thread and not delete it. Kant

 

[TxRad]

I can understand why some threads are moved around on the site. But can someone please tell me why some threads I have run across on the site are closed and not deleted; just hanging in cyberspace?
Seems like a waste of time to close a thread and not delete it. Kant

Maybe the Mod wants the information still available or maybe he can only close and not delete. Only the Shadow knows for sure.

You youngsters can go google up the reference.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Some threads are closed due to violation of the rules and then closed. The offending posts are deleted and as some value still exists in the post that are there the thread is left up.

There have been threads that have been deleted, I'm sure, but if you have not posted in it, how would you know it was deleted?

 

[Kantarii]

Some threads are closed due to violation of the rules and then closed. The offending posts are deleted and as some value still exists in the post that are there the thread is left up.

There have been threads that have been deleted, I'm sure, but if you have not posted in it, how would you know it was deleted?

I run across treads occasionally that are closed that I have posted on when I go back to see if someone quoted me on certain threads. That's how I find out the threads are closed.Kant

 

[AH_Mod]

Threads are closed rather than removed for various reasons. Sometimes I feel bad behavior should be left in the public record. Sometimes the original topic has been exhausted and the thread has gone off the rails in a bad way.

The primary reason is that I prefer to close rather than remove threads. Anything that I close was on the edge of being removed for one reason or another.

And to answer several inquiries I've had of late, I don't believe the GB should be a dumping ground for everyone else's garbage, so I'm not going to move threads there. Unless it's politics or searching for a lost story, I'm not likely to move it, because I feel it's within the broad scope of what the AH has always been.

 

[NotWise]

I don't believe the GB should be a dumping ground for everyone else's garbage, so I'm not going to move threads there. Unless it's politics or searching for a lost story, I'm not likely to move it, because I feel it's within the broad scope of what the AH has always been.

That's odd. I thought the GB WAS the dumping ground for garbage.

The few times I've gone there, that's what I've seen.

 

[lovecraft68]

That's odd. I thought the GB WAS the dumping ground for garbage.

The few times I've gone there, that's what I've seen.

Actually in a sense the GB is a dumping ground, its the board equivalent of Erotic couplings. Not sure where it goes? In fact this is the GB's tag line.

Want to talk about something not covered anywhere else? Try this board!

So when Freddie whom this applies to having more closed threads by far than anyone else here posts a thread going on and on about their 'horrific childhood' and nothing else, that could be moved to the GB. Their I want to by a car could go there or better yet to the How to forum.

The real reason it won't go to the GB is that's where all Laurel's friends are and they whine like babies if they see a thread moved there from anywhere else. No other mod hesitates to move things, but never to the GB that shark pit full of a hate that would make LW look kind is sacred ground here.

 

[AH_Mod]

Moving threads there was one of Laurel's suggested methods of moderating the AH, but I told her from the beginning that I wasn't going to do that. The decision was mine, and I based it upon seeing such forms of moderation start inter-forum wars on other sites in the past. It has also happened here between the AH and GB, albeit for different reasons, and many years ago.

This forum has always had a wide topic base. Without fail, the threads that are reported with the suggestion that they be moved to the GB are actually based upon the member who posts them, not the topic.

Nobody complains about the humor thread, or national cheeseburger day, or talk like a pirate day. These threads have no more to do with writing than the threads that are reported. The only difference is the member who started them.

The real reason it won't go to the GB is that's where all Laurel's friends are and they whine like babies if they see a thread moved there from anywhere else. No other mod hesitates to move things, but never to the GB that shark pit full of a hate that would make LW look kind is sacred ground here.

 

[OliviaM]

I support the idea of not moving threads, if only to keep posters who avoid certain forums from having their posts moved over there. If I reply to a thread that ends up getting moved, then my post is on the GB as well, which I don't want. :/

 

[sr71plt]

Nobody complains about the humor thread,

Just one point of order. There was at least one concerted effort (led by Stella Omega, I think) since I've been on the forum to have the Humor thread moved out of the AH. I didn't weigh in either way, I just remember there was an effort. And a few of JBJ's threads were actually moved in the period in which he started to tell us all that we wrote shit and he didn't but he hadn't posted any stories to Lit. yet. At least two of those threads of his were moved to GB.

Just freezing AH threads that are going off the rails in terms of AH culture is fine with me.

 

[AH_Mod]

I am sticking to that policy Laurel introduced. If someone has no stories posted in their name, threads they start that are not about the topic of writing are subject to more scrutiny, and may be moved to an appropriate board.

And a few of JBJ's threads were actually moved in the period in which he started to tell us all that we wrote shit and he didn't but he hadn't posted any stories to Lit. yet. At least two of those threads of his were moved to GB.

 

[Kantarii]

I am sticking to that policy Laurel introduced. If someone has no stories posted in their name, threads they start that are not about the topic of writing are subject to more scrutiny, and may be moved to an appropriate board.

Hey, now, I like that idea! Kant

 

[Kantarii]

I wonder if there is a record on Lit for someone who has the most treads closed? I'm actually surprised that a few threads haven't been closed. I guess we all know which ones should be - that aren't. I happened to notice a new one got closed recently. Hmm? Kant

 

[Sammael Bard]

Threads with over 5000 posts are closed down to "alleviate server load". Some old threads are also closed as per request of users. Then there's the usual spam, trolling etc.

Only Laurel can truly 'delete' a thread. The rest can only send it to a thread graveyard.