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Location: 6 String Ranch | Has any thought been given to making an additional topic area in the Bulletin Board outline and move all the closed threads there?
All the archived stuff is there, why not all of these as well?
Just a thought. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Sure would be fun reading. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Reading some of those again would be a riot! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | And educational as well!
Yah, it might even prevent more closed threads (as if)!
Maybe charge a Paypal fee to look at them? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by MWoody:
Maybe charge a Paypal fee to look at them? Yeah, that's a good idea....a financial incentive to close more threads. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Ooh, like this one... :rolleyes: |
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Location: closely held secret | Great idea, Beal! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Or, like a little scratch, you leave it alone. It scabs up, dries, and falls off (the first page.) |
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Location: SoCal | I like to pick at it. Think Beal's come up with an interesting idea.... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | This is what 'the other' site is for. Go take up the cudgel in The Sarcastics group.... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by Beal:
Has any thought been given to making an additional topic area in the Bulletin Board outline and move all the closed threads there?
All the archived stuff is there, why not all of these as well?
Just a thought. Something to consider when the new software is in place. At this point, not safe for the infrastructure, and in fact there have been very few incidents requiring it.
It has been proven that positive reinforcement prevails over enabling bad behavior. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I've got a better idea. Instead of shutting down excellent, informative and entertaining threads because some members start throwing their pacifiers at each other, (btw, we call them dummies down here) why not just delete the offending posts and let the thread carry on.
I don't understand the moderators' stance in never deleting threads. If it offends, bin it! Much of the recent and middle distance upheavals could've been avoided, or damage limited, if the offending threads were just deleted.
Maybe I should start a shit-fight with someone on the IPQ and get that shut down. I'd probably get a vacation, but it would oh so be worth it. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | "I don't understand the moderators' stance in never deleting threads."
It's very simple really. We just don't have the time. We get enough crap for closing threads, playing favorites, etc etc etc.. You want to throw censorship on top of that. And G-d forbid something that "should be deleted" doesn't.
Short of a few instances... the current system works very well thank you. Better than most. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Uh... And we are all supposed to be Grown-ups here. :p |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | You could always just do a SEARCH on the word "Closed" and maybe a specific member number.
The idea of self-policing is not a bad one. My neighbor is doing it. He has a ton of weeds in his lawn and he's banking on the fact that the good grass will take over and kill them off. Personally I would just yank the damn things and throw them in the bin.
But you know what? IT AIN'T MY LAWN !!! |
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Location: south east Michigan | What a great little parable you wrote there Dave!
Worthy of an Aesop Fable. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Except that weeds are stronger and more powerful than grass, and always triumph.
If we were smart, we would all grow attractive weeds and spray our lawns with grass killer. And men would be attracted to fat, ugly, sex-hating women. God, what an easy life that would be. |
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Or we could be like Dave and dig up both grass and weeds and replace it all with perfect, controllable plastic replicas.
A Stepford lawn, or forum. Maybe a bit boring but certainly no trouble. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Trouble is where the fun lies in life.
It's all just a matter of how much fun you want. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
You could always just do a SEARCH on the word "Closed" and maybe a specific member number.
The idea of self-policing is not a bad one. My neighbor is doing it. He has a ton of weeds in his lawn and he's banking on the fact that the good grass will take over and kill them off. Personally I would just yank the damn things and throw them in the bin.
But you know what? IT AIN'T MY LAWN !!! I love this analogy. In my world as I have way more important things to do than babysit dirt, I just wait until the weeds are big enough to be truly annoying. Then I rip them out by the root, put them in a pile, pour on gasoline and burn'em.
problem solved until the next batch of crab grass and prickers take hold. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
I just wait until the weeds are big enough to be truly annoying. Then I rip them out by the root, put them in a pile, pour on gasoline and burn'em.
problem solved until the next batch of crab grass and prickers take hold. WOW....no offense but I would HATE to be your neighbor and look at your yard everyday. |
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Location: Miami | Originally posted by dark bar:
... And men would be attracted to fat, ugly, sex-hating women. God, what an easy life that would be. If men were attracted to fat, ugly, sex-hating women, we would have solved cancer, world hunger, AIDS, global warming, and closed threads by now.
(But in the town it was well known when they got home at night their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives.) |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by stephent28:
Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
I just wait until the weeds are big enough to be truly annoying. Then I rip them out by the root, put them in a pile, pour on gasoline and burn'em.
problem solved until the next batch of crab grass and prickers take hold. WOW....no offense but I would HATE to be your neighbor and look at your yard everyday. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I've been the subject of the lawn police on this forum, too. I'm not posting any guitar pictures outside anymore, because I'd have to make sure the lawn was freshly mowed. Dave's backyard is all pool, so he doesn't have much to worry about. |
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Location: SoCal | Which reminds me Mark... did you ever get your lawn in shape or does it still look like hell? |
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