The VCO3 “rule” isn’t intended to be applied to everyone – as Giraffe explicitly stated. It was to prevent further trolling, no more.
Patience, Key Limehopper. Sometimes, you have to wait until some inconsiderate fleabite’s post is moved to where you can call him an inconsiderate fleabite. This is not an instant-gratifying system. It hinges on human interaction.
Changing the subject, if you care to report your own post, you’ll notice your own post doesn’t have the little triangle-with-exclamation-point. Go to the post up or down from your own, click that triangle, and say, “the next post down is (whatever.) Please help.”
If you are too confused to post, don’t post. Don’t fret. You and I are just a flashing in the overall universe. Eventually, you can speak your mind, probably
maybe
does it really matter?
Hello. Welcome to my post. Was there something in the past that brought you discomfort? Be of good cheer. I don’t matter, so surely you don’t either. Fare thee well, seeker. What?
You don’t really know most members of this board, do you?
Maybe I have more faith in this group, as a whole, than you do.
BTW, after I moved the thread in question from IMHO to Great Debates a little after noon PST Friday, not because of any pressure from this thread but because the OP requested, not one of the oh-so-concerned participants in this thread have bothered to post in it.
So? There’s nothing new to reply to. The fact that you chose to move it too late doesn’t change what it was. The debate, such as it was, ran its course before you decided to move it.
In my case, it’s because i had said my piece, and had no intention of contributing further.
But way to avoid the issue. The fact that people haven’t posted since you moved the thread is completely irrelevant to the questions raised in this thread, questions to which you still haven’t had the integrity to offer any sort of substantial response.
Maybe I thought it wasn’t suited for Great Debates.
Looking at the lack of responses since I moved it, it seems that my original decision was correct.
I thought IMHO was the forum for “lesser debates;” discussions of personal preferences and minor ethical/etiquette questions. I don’t see that it’s for polls, only polls, and nothing but polls. If that’s now the policy, it’s a new policy, and should be noted in a sticky.
Moving a thread after the discussion has run its course and then claiming that clearly it was in the right forum to begin with because nobody has replied since it was moved seems a little ridiculous to me. And why aren’t you answering WhyNot’s questions from her OP anyway, Czarcasm? She was very polite about it and is still waiting for answers. (As are the rest of us, for that matter.)
I didn’t think the thread was suited for Great Debates because the OP presented a situation and asked for responses to her situation. Instead of responding to the OP, some posters started responding to each other in a way I thought was a hijack of the original question. When I tried to stop the hijack, the hijack continued and I was chastised for not moving the thread to Great Debates. I still believe that “Poster A said such-n-such and I have to ignore what forum I am posting in and respond!” is any sort of excuse.
I felt the thread was going far afield of the OP.
I was trying to steer the conversation back to the actual topic at hand.
I believe we have had threads in ATMB about the whys and whynots(no pun intended) of enabling polls.
I thought the thread would die in Great Debates. I was right.
If it was just you, I would have told you so. The thread was going in too many directions, with some posters feeling they just had to get in the last word, as if getting the last word in means you(in general, not you personally) win the argument.
Hope this helps.
I see your point. Unfortunately, I think abortion is one of those issues where people just aren’t going to hold back. Any thread where abortion is mentioned is going to become a general debate about abortion, instead of a specific discussion about an unusual circumstance such as the one the OP mentioned.
Because it would, and did die there. And in the end that is the point of my job here-doing what I can to create an environment that supports posters and the threads they create.
So you are saying that some topics are the verbal equivalent of “fighting words” and there is nothing that can hold you back from responding, no matter what forum you are posting in? It’s not enough to refrain from “striking back”, so to speak, and just hit the Report this post to the Moderator button?
Bullshit.
The proper response to ask the Moderator to move the thread, not ignore the forum you are posting in while telling the Moderator to move it. Notice that the thread was moved after the OP requested that I do so.
If you distilled only that from my post, you’re an idiot.
If you think that ignoring what forum a thread is in and ordering a Mod to move it where you think it belongs will get you anywhere, I’m not the idiot.
OK, i guess i’ll respond as if you were interested in doing your job properly.
It died there, as WhyNot has already pointed out, because the debate had run its course. If it were still in IMHO, it would still be dead. And this is completely beside the point.
No.
I’m saying that some topics are, by their very nature, and by the way the question is posed in the OP, much more conducive to exchanges of ideas and differences of opinion than they are to simple poll-type responses. The thread in question is one such thread, both because of the specific topic, and because of the way the OP worded the question.
As i’ve made quite clear in previous posts, most of the threads in IMHO are perfectly well suited to the forum, and to fairly straightforward expressions of opinion or experience. I even think that some threads on abortion would quite easily qualify. E.g.: “Share your experience of having an abortion”
Asking whether or not doing a particular thing makes you a “bad person,” as the OP of that thread did, is the type of moral and ethical question that one finds in GD all the time; indeed, it’s the type of question that GD was desgined specifically to accommodate.
I’m not blaming Freudian Slit for this. Sometimes working out where to put a thread can be hard. I’m just amazed that you apparently wouldn’t devote 2 percent of the energy you used getting all pissy in that thread to actually considering whether the nature of the OP and the ongoing direction of the thread might justify a move to GD.
It does, thank you for the answers. If they had come 20 posts ago, this thread would have been over, as far as I’m concerned. I honestly think you’re making this job harder than it has to be with your resistance and…I don’t know, paranoia. We’re not all stupid posters out to get you or make your life difficult. It doesn’t have to be Posters vs. Mods. Sometimes when we say you’re not being clear, we just mean you’re not being clear; we just want to understand stuff. It’s sort of the defining quality that brought us all here.
It took me awhile to respond because I was busy doing other things. I’m only human.
Until the next upgrade, that is.