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Off topic. Please follow the rulesGentlemen!
[Clear throat. Slap closed umbrella on open palm]
You're in Zone Best Behavior. Behave.
This is in memory of FCT. He always believed in "USMB, The Way a Political Board Should Be." And he finally gave up.
When you close a thread because other threads have already been started on the topic, maybe you could also link to the thread that remains. Sometimes I can't find it, and then I get all pissed off and pee on my keyboard.
Thanks.
This is in memory of FCT. He always believed in "USMB, The Way a Political Board Should Be." And he finally gave up.
That's a legible shade of mod red, Will, thanks, I appreciate the courtesy. It's more ergonomic on the eyes, I can never read that other shade. I'm serious, too. I literally scroll past that other shade, it give me double vision.
That's a legible shade of mod red, Will, thanks, I appreciate the courtesy. It's more ergonomic on the eyes, I can never read that other shade. I'm serious, too. I literally scroll past that other shade, it give me double vision.
I've always preferred blood red
Citizen. Please. This is USMB.If a mod is closing a thread for that reason, fine, but by definition the same mod already knows of the other threads, why keep that info secret and keep readers in the dark, when you could just LINK them?
FYI
if your gripe is about the Northam threads, there are 13 threads about Northam and his blackface incident.
and those are just the ones with his name in the title.
More can be found searching for Blackface in the title.
The 'claim' a thread couldn't be found to participate in is ridiculous.
Don't tell me you've grown lazy in your dotage?FYI
if your gripe is about the Northam threads, there are 13 threads about Northam and his blackface incident.
and those are just the ones with his name in the title.
More can be found searching for Blackface in the title.
The 'claim' a thread couldn't be found to participate in is ridiculous.
My reference is to a LOT of threads, not a current one necessarily. And almost always, it involves seeing some topic for the first time, seeing it's closed with a "there are already __ threads on this", and seeing no other threads apparent. I'm sure those threads exist but they're not new and not active enough to be showing up in recent activity.
I'm sure it would be possible to hunt them down given enough time to waste poring through every possible forum one at a time, but it would save a whole lot of effort to just see them listed by the mod who already knows about them in the closing post. Exactly the same way a reader does when reporting a duplicate thread: "topic already exists here: (followed by URL)". Just do the same thing.
As I said--- why keep it a secret? Doesn't make sense. Just makes more work for the reader.
Don't tell me you've grown lazy in your dotage?FYI
if your gripe is about the Northam threads, there are 13 threads about Northam and his blackface incident.
and those are just the ones with his name in the title.
More can be found searching for Blackface in the title.
The 'claim' a thread couldn't be found to participate in is ridiculous.
My reference is to a LOT of threads, not a current one necessarily. And almost always, it involves seeing some topic for the first time, seeing it's closed with a "there are already __ threads on this", and seeing no other threads apparent. I'm sure those threads exist but they're not new and not active enough to be showing up in recent activity.
I'm sure it would be possible to hunt them down given enough time to waste poring through every possible forum one at a time, but it would save a whole lot of effort to just see them listed by the mod who already knows about them in the closing post. Exactly the same way a reader does when reporting a duplicate thread: "topic already exists here: (followed by URL)". Just do the same thing.
As I said--- why keep it a secret? Doesn't make sense. Just makes more work for the reader.
(I know I have........)
My, my, my...... so serious about a freaking message board....... I might have expected that from someone else......Don't tell me you've grown lazy in your dotage?FYI
if your gripe is about the Northam threads, there are 13 threads about Northam and his blackface incident.
and those are just the ones with his name in the title.
More can be found searching for Blackface in the title.
The 'claim' a thread couldn't be found to participate in is ridiculous.
My reference is to a LOT of threads, not a current one necessarily. And almost always, it involves seeing some topic for the first time, seeing it's closed with a "there are already __ threads on this", and seeing no other threads apparent. I'm sure those threads exist but they're not new and not active enough to be showing up in recent activity.
I'm sure it would be possible to hunt them down given enough time to waste poring through every possible forum one at a time, but it would save a whole lot of effort to just see them listed by the mod who already knows about them in the closing post. Exactly the same way a reader does when reporting a duplicate thread: "topic already exists here: (followed by URL)". Just do the same thing.
As I said--- why keep it a secret? Doesn't make sense. Just makes more work for the reader.
(I know I have........)
Seems more like the mods have.
The Search "feature" on this site is a joke. Always has been. So that's not a solution.
There's no way to tell what forum something ends up in. I don't even notice what forum I'm in when I see a new thread but hunting down a topic would require combing through each forum, over and over and over and over, page after page. Politics? Current Events? Elections? Media? Latin America? Could be anywhere. Can't believe this mod wants to dismiss it as "ridiculous" rather than break a tiny little sweat just to share what he already has in front of him, and just make more work for everybody. Kind of sadistic. Can't help noticing he doesn't even bother to give a good reason for not doing it, just goes "let 'em eat cake".
And then they get mad at me for bumping old threads? This is why I don’t start new threads on subjects already being discussed.When you close a thread because other threads have already been started on the topic, maybe you could also link to the thread that remains. Sometimes I can't find it, and then I get all pissed off and pee on my keyboard.
Thanks.
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My, my, my...... so serious about a freaking message board....... I might have expected that from someone else......Don't tell me you've grown lazy in your dotage?FYI
if your gripe is about the Northam threads, there are 13 threads about Northam and his blackface incident.
and those are just the ones with his name in the title.
More can be found searching for Blackface in the title.
The 'claim' a thread couldn't be found to participate in is ridiculous.
My reference is to a LOT of threads, not a current one necessarily. And almost always, it involves seeing some topic for the first time, seeing it's closed with a "there are already __ threads on this", and seeing no other threads apparent. I'm sure those threads exist but they're not new and not active enough to be showing up in recent activity.
I'm sure it would be possible to hunt them down given enough time to waste poring through every possible forum one at a time, but it would save a whole lot of effort to just see them listed by the mod who already knows about them in the closing post. Exactly the same way a reader does when reporting a duplicate thread: "topic already exists here: (followed by URL)". Just do the same thing.
As I said--- why keep it a secret? Doesn't make sense. Just makes more work for the reader.
(I know I have........)
Seems more like the mods have.
The Search "feature" on this site is a joke. Always has been. So that's not a solution.
There's no way to tell what forum something ends up in. I don't even notice what forum I'm in when I see a new thread but hunting down a topic would require combing through each forum, over and over and over and over, page after page. Politics? Current Events? Elections? Media? Latin America? Could be anywhere. Can't believe this mod wants to dismiss it as "ridiculous" rather than break a tiny little sweat just to share what he already has in front of him, and just make more work for everybody. Kind of sadistic. Can't help noticing he doesn't even bother to give a good reason for not doing it, just goes "let 'em eat cake".
I'll tell ya what, when we start paying the mods then I'll care.......
Mindless arrogance? Hell I'm not a mod anymore.......My, my, my...... so serious about a freaking message board....... I might have expected that from someone else......Don't tell me you've grown lazy in your dotage?FYI
if your gripe is about the Northam threads, there are 13 threads about Northam and his blackface incident.
and those are just the ones with his name in the title.
More can be found searching for Blackface in the title.
The 'claim' a thread couldn't be found to participate in is ridiculous.
My reference is to a LOT of threads, not a current one necessarily. And almost always, it involves seeing some topic for the first time, seeing it's closed with a "there are already __ threads on this", and seeing no other threads apparent. I'm sure those threads exist but they're not new and not active enough to be showing up in recent activity.
I'm sure it would be possible to hunt them down given enough time to waste poring through every possible forum one at a time, but it would save a whole lot of effort to just see them listed by the mod who already knows about them in the closing post. Exactly the same way a reader does when reporting a duplicate thread: "topic already exists here: (followed by URL)". Just do the same thing.
As I said--- why keep it a secret? Doesn't make sense. Just makes more work for the reader.
(I know I have........)
Seems more like the mods have.
The Search "feature" on this site is a joke. Always has been. So that's not a solution.
There's no way to tell what forum something ends up in. I don't even notice what forum I'm in when I see a new thread but hunting down a topic would require combing through each forum, over and over and over and over, page after page. Politics? Current Events? Elections? Media? Latin America? Could be anywhere. Can't believe this mod wants to dismiss it as "ridiculous" rather than break a tiny little sweat just to share what he already has in front of him, and just make more work for everybody. Kind of sadistic. Can't help noticing he doesn't even bother to give a good reason for not doing it, just goes "let 'em eat cake".
I'll tell ya what, when we start paying the mods then I'll care.......
Oh it ain't about a message board. Who cares about that. It's about mindless arrogance.
The message board will be fine.
