No I wasn’t there to add on but I saw it in the forum and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Pit thread about another member closed. Usually they are keep open for the next incident. And no explanation was given which is unusual too.
Just curious.
Started by a now-gone troll. Contained arguments about moderation. Rest of it was not about wolfpup at all.
Original poster was banned as a troll.
Kinda hard to have a back-and-forth when the forther has been forthed out.
And it’s very doubtful that there is a need for the thread to still be open, because @wolfpup is such a well behaved poster that he’ll probably not get pitted again very soon. But if someone has the need, just open another thread.
The troll pitted Wolfpup in error (wrong poster), so it was an ersatz pitting.
Honestly I think the more pertinent question is not why the other thread was closed, but why you’re invested in starting this thread. The other thread was obviously closed because it was started by a troll who is now banned, never had a useful purpose in the first place, and quickly turned into an incoherent mess. It was also starting to turn into a reverse pitting of said troll, which is pointless now that they’re banned.
For that, I recommend you read the first post.
You wrote in that post:
So now you’ve got plenty of explanations, the thread starter was a troll and pitted the wrong poster anyway. What more do you want?
What?! I haven’t asked more information. All I did was refer Wolfpup to the post that answered his question.
Ok sorry, you’re right, I misinterpreted your post.
“First post” of which thread, the one you’re complaining about, or this one? Either way, I have no idea what it is that seems to upset you so.
OK, I’ll walk you through it.
The thread was closed without explanation. Also, I don’t recall seeing Pitting of other members getting closed. Those are both unusual. Curious why that one that I have no other interest in was closed.
What did I say that indicated I was upset. Was it the
?
As noted:
- Started by a about-to-be-banned troll
- Started so that he could (a) bitch at a member who wasn’t even responsible for what he was angry about (i.e., flagging his posts), and (b) whine about moderation
As such, it was no longer a relevant thread once he was banished.
This whole kerfuffle is a good example of why we don’t have bright line rules.
Ordinarily, we don’t close Pit threads. But in this case, it was started by a troll for the sole purpose of complaining about a moderation choice made by a poster to flag the troll’s other thread about word pronunciations.
The troll got it wrong in his Pit thread by assuming it was @Wolfpup who had flagged the post. It wasn’t. The poster who flagged the post came forward and stated the same in the Pit thread. As was pointed out upthread by @MrDibble and @susan, after the troll was banned, there was no point in keeping the Pit thread open, so I asked @Miller if he would close it – which he did.
We also tend to cornfield threads started by trolls, but in this case – because we don’t have bright line rules – we left the Pronunciations thread open. Posters seemed to be enjoying it independent of who started it, and why should they not, just because a troll started it?
Moderation doesn’t follow strict guidelines here. We try for consistency, but some cases call for a little more nuance.
Yes I know. My question has been answered. I get it.
I was recreating my first post for Wolfpup who does not understand why I started for this thread. So I had to explain it to him a second time.
I was not re-asking the question that was already answered.
Is it really a kerfuffle? I noted something unusual and the repliers explained what happened. The only thing I would point out is maybe the mod could have posted the reason for the closure like they almost always do avoiding a thread asking why but I assume that was just an oversight.
Something you should have been able to pick up yourself, merely by reading the thread in question (that’s the way I figured it out).
So yeah, a whole ATMB thread about it counts as a (very minor) kerfuffle
None of the rest of us appear confused by why it was closed.
I do it quite a bit. It’s been SOP since before I was a mod that if a poster is banned, we close any ongoing Pit threads about that poster.
This was slightly different in that it was a Pit thread started by a banned poster instead of about a banned poster, but as noted, we tend to close those, too, unless the thread has spawned an interesting conversation despite the troll. Which, IMO, didn’t apply here: the most likely direction for the conversation to take would to turn into a (likely uncomplimentary) discussion about the banned OP, which brings us back to the first point about closing Pittings of banned members.
Funny enough, the troll even realized that fact and apologized to @wolfpup before they were banned.
Even if the troll wasn’t banned, there wasn’t much need for the thread anymore.
Spoken like someone who hasn’t needed to clean the carpets after he came for a visit. He’s a bad dog!
(I kid, of course).
And it had already started moving in that direction. I was on vacation at the time, so I wasn’t involved in any of the decisions, but closing that thread seemed like a no-brainer to me.