A contender! I’m not advocating opening the thread in question, that would be silly but I would be interested in your opinion of what is the harm in leaving them open in general.
You haven’t given an opinion of what harm they cause, you just keep saying it’s against the rules.
Yep, thanks** Ellen**. I did suggest in the OP that if people were having fun and participating it could be moved to MPSIMS.
Something doesn’t have to “cause harm” to be against the rules. If The Powers That Be want this place to resemble a message board where people have (sometimes) intelligent conversation, instead of a playpen, then it is their right to design the rules thusly. Personally, I see nothing attractive about “Post whatever you want, because we just don’t give a shit” type directionless boards.
Posting about cookie recipes in Great Debates “does no harm”.
Posting about WWII in About This Message Board “does no harm”.
Posting about your pet’s illness in COCC/SR “does no harm”.
Dunno. I’m not the one with the thread titles must match OPs rule.
No one is arguing that the thread should have been left alone. We’re saying, when you have a choice between moving it to the quote unquote silly forum or closing it, why not do the option that still leaves people the chance to play in it?
Posting about mundane pointless things in MPSIMS does no harm? Because isn’t that where your analogy breaks down?
And I realize the Walmarticus thread wasn’t posted in MPSIMS. But threads in MPSIMS have been closed down for having no point - in a forum that’s supposedly intended for pointless threads.
Perhaps the word “Pointless” should be removed from the forum title?
nevermind
Or the rule relaxed a bit.
What a stupid idea to keep a contentless OP thread open. Why not just have a bot to open threads every second with no content.
Good moderation by Miller.
Oh for the love of-
Come back when you understand our actual objections, John Mace.
It’s not about the contentless OP. It’s about using the contentless OP as a reason to close a thread which had seventeen other posts in it.
So it’s o.k. for the mods to close a contentless OP…unless a bunch of posters gets to it before the mod does?
Were those seventeen other posts on-topic?
Where they off topic?
Hmmmm…were they?..hmmmm?..put that in your hat and smoke it.
I’m not sure about this, but there might still be time to ask the mods to erase all evidence that you posted this.
Outstanding moderation by Miller. Top notch. Six stars.
Whether the thread should get moved to MPSIMS is a judgment call. But my take is that there are plenty of diversions in that place already and frankly the quality of the responses to the Waldart thread were… appropriately ephemeral. So there truly was no loss in closing it and it was not trivially respectful of the OP’s wishes.
Fun! Bah! We’re here to fight ignorance. Any “fun” I have here is purely strategic. Scarequotes are fun.
The mods should only close a thread if the thread is a problem. They shouldn’t close it because one post is a problem.
Now if the entire thread is only one post, then a bad post justifies closing the thread.
Oh, boo-hoo. We want this MB to be a playground. Sorry, but you lose.
Good moderation, Miller. The Pit is the place for rants. There was not rant. Thread Closed. QED.
Start your mindless thread in MPSIMS. Don’t expect every mindless thread to be moved there.
It’s a dumb policy that adds nothing to the board but takes away from it. And there’s now a new pointless thread in MPSIMS as a direct result of this thread so you guys have actually increased the number of pointless threads here. Good job, brownie.