hopeandlove opened this issue on Feb 29, 2016 ยท 92 posts
moriador posted Mon, 29 February 2016 at 6:40 PM
Well, I don't think you should lock threads, particularly the most active. If a thread is very active, it's clear that "there is nothing left to discuss" isn't true, or else the thread would die all on its own.
This is how you kill a forum. Lock the threads that people are most interested in! I mean, seriously. You can't coerce, persuade, or cajole people into actively posting in threads that don't interest them. If nothing else, surely you've noticed that by now.
Instead, if you have a problem with specific posts in a thread -- say so. Not a general, "everyone please be polite" post, because that really doesn't help anyone. It's like critiquing a picture by saying, "Well, some of the pictures posted in the gallery could be better." If you want to be helpful, you MUST be SPECIFIC. And if a post violates the TOS, don't punish everyone in a thread by locking the thread. Delete the violating post and inform the user why it is a violation of the TOS. (Even Daz does that.) Otherwise, locking a thread is like closing a subgallery just because a few naughty images were posted there.
And if there are no violations of the TOS, then there is no reason to lock an ACTIVE thread, is there?
I mean, you may not like what's being said in the thread, or may not find it interesting. But it's not the users' job to entertain the mods with exciting forum posts. What matters is what the USERS want to read and respond to.
If I come here to respond to a thread and I find it locked, guess what? I'm not going to make a brand new super nice and positive topic. I'm going to go away.
And I am not picking on you: This problem has been plaguing the forums for years, and got particularly bad in the last few years in the Poser forum. And you wonder why the forums are so quiet compared to before? The answer is that as long as threads get locked -- some times at the first sign of discomfort -- one person, not even a mod, but a user, can silence EVERYONE ELSE.
Just a suggestion.
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