# Thread Oddness... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 11, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-oddness/181118 "2003-06-11T15:20:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-oddness/181118/1 "2003-06-11T15:20:11Z")
[This thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=189885) That thread was originially in ATMB. I tell the person that a question such as that is factual in nature and should go in GQ(Yeah, it’s more an opinion thing, so it’s more a IMHO thread). Firstly, why is it in MPISMS?, secondly, who moved it? It shows no “This post has been moved” or mention from mod. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-oddness/181118/2 "2003-06-11T15:49:45Z")
I don’t think it needed an explanation. Does it really matter to you who moved it, or would you just like to know that it wasn’t some preternatural thread-moving force? ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-oddness/181118/3 "2003-06-11T16:07:40Z")
The thing that got me is the fact it didn’t say “Moved”, which all moved threads I’ve seen before had. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-oddness/181118/4 "2003-06-11T16:09:46Z")
I didn’t move that one, but I’ve moved many threads without posting in the thread that it was moved or even why it was moved. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-oddness/181118/5 "2003-06-11T16:15:39Z")
I think **Aslan** means in the forum listing. When a thread has been moved, there’s a big ol’ arrow pointing to the right with “Moved” next to it. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-oddness/181118/6 "2003-06-11T16:48:15Z")
Ah yes I see now. I agree. Weird. Also, the first reply to that thread seems to be responding to… something else. I thought that was weird too. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-oddness/181118/7 "2003-06-11T16:48:53Z")
In addition to deleting a post, there are three options for moving one, one of which has a double application. First, we all know that there’s a secret repository where all the truly obnoxious threads go, available only to Moderators and Administrators. Second, when one moves a thread in vBB, one chooses between three options: [ul][li]Move this thread to another forum[/li][li]Move this thread to another forum and leave a “redirect”[/li][li]Copy this thread to another forum[/ul][/li] For obvious reasons when one considers this board, the last option is never used here. Generally, a Mod. uses the second option, leaving a “redirect” I have the thread menu for Great Debates open in another window, and I see a =\> Moved: biased news? listing there; that’s an example of a “redirect.” Clicking on the underscored biased news? will hyperlink you to that thread in its new home. I suspect it’s totally a matter of moderator judgment – if a thread has 0 responses and 2 views, it probably gets moved without a redirect; if by the time the Mods. decide it deserves moving it has 23 responses and 341 views, there are going to be enough people wondering where it went to, to justify a redirect. 'Zat helpful? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-oddness/181118/8 "2003-06-11T17:43:32Z")
From the repository of declassified information: > [@](#): > > Moved to ‘MPSIMS’ by TubaDiva on 06-10-2003 06:59 PM. And Polycarp has hit upon the reason you see no “redirect.”