I’m pretty sure **Count **knew Brando was dead when he started the thread, but even if he didn’t, so what? Do we just close threads now because of misinformed OPs? I don’t understand why an RIP to Brando would result in “He’s been dead. Thread closed.”
If the thread is stupid, let it be stupid and sink on its own. If it lends itself to hilarity, let it do that. This may quite possibly the smallest deal in the world, and I’m almost certainly not describing my thoughts accurately, but I don’t get why a thread would be closed because it feels like what was implied by the thread title might not be the case. I suppose my sloppily-made point is just let threads be. If they’re not problematic, trolling, or spam, no need to close them because the implied premise might be flawed.
I clearly need better things to do with my time than complain about things like this, but I’m certain I’m right.
Jesus died 2000 years ago (approximately) and we haven’t stopped talking about it since.
So now there’s something wrong if we’re still talking about Marlon Brando departure 10 years hence? Okay, so if there’s talky-talk, let there be talky-talk. I myself don’t frequent Cafe Society much (despite that it was a CS thread, it so happens, that got me inspired to join this board) and would never have noticed that thread but for this ATMB thread. That said, I agree with the posters above. Whatever people want to talk about it, let them. Let the thread go feral and find its own direction and fate. Silly and idiotic? Fine, if it goes that way. Discuss the finer elements of his long-term legacy? Fine too, if that’s where it goes.
Shut the thread down just because he died way back when and the OP cites an old article? Dumb move. As a matter of fact, just why did the OP do that? The thread could have been questioning and discussing that.
RIP threads are for announcing recent deaths, or at least that is the traditional use for them. Posting one for the 10 year anniversary of someone’s death is confusing, and IMO borderline trolling. He could have made it clear in the OP that he was starting a thread on the anniversary of the death but didn’t.
I assumed the thread was a dig at another poster who posted a RIP thread for someone who’d died a year ago and it appeared that they did not realize it wasn’t a recent event.
I do wish some of the inveterate death reporters here on the dope would either read Cafe Society more thoroughly or get a celebrity death alert phone app. It’s slightly hilarious when they post a new RIP thread 2 days after we’ve all had a good cry about whoever.
Another recent example. I don’t know if Count Blucher was confused or making a joke, but these threads happen from time to time just like obits for years-dead celebrities sometimes emerge and go viral again. Since it’s usually a mistake anyway - and it’s a joke, it doesn’t make much sense - why leave it open?
Wait, what? Now we’re justifying we why’re leaving threads open instead of why we’re closing them? Leave them open because someone started a thread they presumably wanted open. Leave it open so people can discuss, laugh at, ignore, whatever the OP. Why close it? Because you don’t like it? Because you feel like the OP was wrong? Strikes me as pointless. Let the thread do its own thing.
Well it’s not exactly shocking that a pointless and stupid move would be made that they’ll shrug their shoulders to. I’ve said what I’ve had to say, so I’m going to do something more productive now, like pretend to work, even though I’m secretly viewing gifs of baby elephants frolicking.
“Feel like?” Marlon Brando factually died 10 years ago. The thread was either a mistake, in which case the OP will probably ask the mods to close it, or it’s a confusing joke, in which case a bunch of other people are going to ask the mods to close it. Most of the posts in the thread were just people saying “huh? I thought he died 10 years ago,” so it’s not like it had turned into a hilarious joke thread. So what’s the problem?