Or they come in and have no idea and don’t feel like googling it for the OP and so don’t post.
News to me. It would feel like one to me.
Wait, are you serious? We’re supposed to PM a mod before opening a related thread? Are you breaking in a new pair of jackboots?
Or, as has been reasonably stated, the thread has gone off course and people with an answer to the original question don’t want to wade into that muck.
Or people went in to that thread in the first couple of days, saw that it was engaged in a hijack about Jesse Helms and whether he was a racist, decided they didn’t want to participate in that conversation, left, and then didn’t see when Czarcasm asked the OP question a second time more neutrally.
I don’t see the harm in Czarcasm’s reposting the question in a neutral form in GQ to get a factual answer to the question, especially since that question is being ignored in the GD thread.
We often get mods closing threads for being a trainwreck and instructing people to open a new thread with the question rephrased. We often have multiple threads with similar topics. I don’t see how Czarcasm did anything wrong. He wondered about the question that was being ignored, so he opened a thread on that question in GQ, where he could get a factual discussion without the political baggage of GD. Makes sense to me. The preemptive closing doesn’t make sense.
If this is even remotely true (I presume samclem wouldn’t be fooling around at this point in ATMB while wearing his mod hat [right?]?), I’m very impressed and appreciative.
You have a funny definition of the word nothing.
FWIW, if I see a thread is moved to GD, I don’t follow it. I don’t find GD threads to my taste. If a mod felt that the thread was suitable there, it probably isn’t suitable to me.
I’m probably not the only one. So while a GQ answer might happen in GD, I think it’s less likely than if there was an appropriate thread in GQ.
It isn’t unusual to have multiple threads about a subject with different angles, is it?
Exactly. GD is a completely different forum with different rules. It is pretty much impossible to get a factual answer there. It doesn’t even have the provision of IMHO that factual answers are allowed.
If you ask a factual question, it is perfectly fine to just ignore it in GD. In GQ, you must give an answer before you can talk about anything else. That’s why GQ exists as a separate forum–otherwise, we’d just have IMHO.
If Colibri thought there was no factual answer to the question, that’s one thing. Saying that you can get a factual answer in GD is completely ridiculous. If a thread in GD actually has a factual answer, it is moved to GQ.
But if a factual answer could have been given, then Colibri erred in moving the thread to GD. He should have either closed it (telling interested parties to open a new one) or told people to ignore the well-poisoning. Well poisoning does not somehow change a GQ thread into a GD one. GD is not a dumping ground for bad GQ threads. GQ threads are moved there specifically because the answer is debatable and thus not factual.
[Princess Bride]Man in Black: All right. Where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right… and who is dead.
Vizzini: But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy’s? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
Man in Black: You’ve made your decision then?
Vizzini: Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
Man in Black: **Truly, you have a dizzying intellect. **
Vizzini: Wait till I get going! Now, where was I?
Man in Black: Australia.
Vizzini: Yes, Australia. And you must have suspected I would have known the powder’s origin, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
Man in Black: You’re just stalling now.
Vizzini: You’d like to think that, wouldn’t you? You’ve beaten my giant, which means you’re exceptionally strong, so you could’ve put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, you’ve also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
Man in Black: You’re trying to trick me into giving away something. It won’t work.
Vizzini: IT HAS WORKED! YOU’VE GIVEN EVERYTHING AWAY! I KNOW WHERE THE POISON IS!
Man in Black: Then make your choice.
Vizzini: I will, and I choose - What in the world can that be?
Man in Black: [Vizzini gestures up and away from the table. Roberts looks. Vizzini swaps the goblets]
Man in Black: What? Where? I don’t see anything.
Vizzini: Well, I- I could have sworn I saw something. No matter. First, let’s drink. Me from my glass, and you from yours.
Man in Black, Vizzini: [Vizzini and the Man in Black drink]
Man in Black: You guessed wrong.
Vizzini: You only think I guessed wrong! That’s what’s so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia” - but only slightly less well-known is this: “Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line”! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha…
Vizzini: [Vizzini stops suddenly, his smile frozen on his face and falls to the ground dead]
[/Princess Bride]