Reincarnation: Recall of Past Life-Yes or No?
It wasn’t really a good GQ thread, but you could have easily moved it to GD or MPSIMS instead. IMO it’s also poor modding to lock a thread and not tell people why you’re locking it–it just leaves everything hanging, and doesn’t tell people what to do in the future to avoid having other threads locked.
I may also be somewhat pissed 'cause I found out it was locked the hard way, losing a (long-ish) post as I tried to make it.
Wasn’t there an earlier thread on the exact same topic also locked? (Also started by Ralph.)
The same poster had a similar thread locked in GQ on 1/10/10:
Ah, so it looks like he posted in GQ, was told it wasn’t a GQ question, and had it locked, then he re-posted in GQ, probably accidentally, meaning to post it in GD.
I still don’t see why either thread was locked instead of moved, given that that seems to be the general M.O. for threads created in the wrong place.
It’s usually a good idea to wait more than a few minutes to post a question about a moderator action in ATMB, just in case the moderator is in the process of posting an explanation in the thread.
Here’s what I posted after closing the thread:
Psh, back in my day, we posted our thread-closing explanations uphill both ways, in the snow, in our bare feet. 
ANYway, thanks for the explanation. Although to be fair to the OP, I don’t think he intentionally reposted it in the wrong forum: “K, I posted thisin the wrong forum.” Past tense makes it sound like he now realizes he did post it in the wrong place, and now thinks he’s posting it in the right place: i.e., a GQ/GD misread or misclick. His own fault for not checking, but I guess my point is that it wasn’t done maliciously.
Thing is, it wasn’t accidental.
Bolding mine. Note that the first sentence wasn’t added in editing after he posted and it was too late; it was the first thing he posted. He evidently knew it was in the wrong forum when he submitted it.
ETA: ralph124c hasn’t reported the thread as being posted in the wrong forum (although he is evidently on line), although another poster did.
So what do you think he is doing, saying “Yay look at me, i’m posting in the wrong forum and you can’t stop me!”, or is it more likely he made a mistake again?
I think he was being careless. As I said in my note, I would like to encourage him to think more about where he places his threads. Whatever the reason for the posting, he certainly didn’t seem to be doing this now.
I’m saying I think you’re reading it wrong (understandably, 'cause you’re probably sick of dealing with this having already addressed it). He said he POSTED it in the wrong forum, not he IS POSTING it. IOW, he PREVIOUSLY POSTED THE SAME THREAD to the wrong forum (GQ), which is why he is now reposting it (to what he thought was GD).
Since you told him he could have such a thread, the common sense answer is to just move it, I think it is a bias here against being for any discussion of existence of life after death to close it.
Look at all those Haiti threads across many forums and no one is closing all of them, and they came in at different times but are on a common subject. They knew there were other threads. I think you wanted to stifle him from posting on that subject. Just move it and you would not spend time here being asked, either.
What browser are you using? I use mostly Firefox or Safari, and in both of those, if I recall correctly (I would have to check), if there is a problem with a post, I can use the back button, go back to the screen where I composed the post, and the text will still be there in the form.
We are not sure, but fully 50% of Ralph’s posts are submitted in the wrong fora. Many members of the staff have addressed that problem with him, yet he continues to do it. Regardless whether he is deliberately doing it wrong or is simply too careless to bother doing it right, he has caused enough work for a long enough period of time that we are no longer going to enable his behavior.
Anyone who wishes to discuss one of his questions in the proper forum is welcome to open a thread in the correct forum.
I overlooked responding to this before. I apologize if you were inconvenienced by the closure of the thread, as well as to anyone else who was interested in the subject. I closed it before posting an explanation exactly because I didn’t want to see more people posting to it only to see it closed. At the time I closed it, most of the replies were brief and not too much actual discussion had taken place, so I felt not much was being lost.
As tomndebb indicates, anyone who is actually interested in the subject (including ralph124c) is welcome to open a thread in GD.
Ok, on re-reading it I see how this could be the case. Still and all, it’s really pretty careless to know that you previously posted the thread in the wrong forum, and then re-post it and make exactly the same mistake again.
IE7. It sucks, and I know it sucks, but I post from my work computer, and I have literally no other option. And I had to jump through massive hoops just to prove I had a business reason to request 7–most of the company is stuck using 6.
Oh, yeah, totally careless. Just not malicious, IMO.
I never said I thought it was done to be malicious. I just think he didn’t make any real effort to avoid posting in the same forum. Let’s say indifference rather than malice.
Maybe the thread was … reincarnated!
Ah at least we know where our spam is coming from now!
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Silverstreak Wonder, you are new here, and have already shown you do not know the rules or the culture of this board. You are predisposed to see a bias that is not there.
The explanation has been posted - ralph124c has repeatedly started threads in the wrong forum, and the board staff are tired of moving threads when he does not appear to be making the effort to learn from his mistakes. This was a deliberate attempt to get his attention to comply with board rules, not a judgement of the content of his posts.
Subsequent to your post, tomndebb said: