It's called the natural progression of a conversation.It's stupid that threads get locked for topics changing as they're discussed.
This is why that chat thread that was pinned would have worked. But we all bitched at how stupid it was remember?
Quote from: Sᴏʟ's Sᴏɴɢ on June 19, 2015, 09:11:25 PMIt's called the natural progression of a conversation.It's stupid that threads get locked for topics changing as they're discussed.That's not the policy. But because that wasn't the first time the thread got derailed, and it was derailed with insults about a member, I really didn't have a choice but to lock it to keep it from happening over and over.To be clear, I'm not against threads evolving naturally into another topic, but I am against multiple people ganging up on one user.
Quote from: Decimator Omega on June 19, 2015, 09:13:47 PMThis is why that chat thread that was pinned would have worked. But we all bitched at how stupid it was remember?What I didn't like about the chat thread is that Cheat said he was gonna delete all of the old chat threads when new ones were made. Why? Because our post counts would get "inflated".Like, who cares? That's just dumb.We could do away with post counts entirely and I wouldn't mind.
Quote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 09:18:30 PMQuote from: Decimator Omega on June 19, 2015, 09:13:47 PMThis is why that chat thread that was pinned would have worked. But we all bitched at how stupid it was remember?What I didn't like about the chat thread is that Cheat said he was gonna delete all of the old chat threads when new ones were made. Why? Because our post counts would get "inflated".Like, who cares? That's just dumb.We could do away with post counts entirely and I wouldn't mind.I completely agree, and every time I try to bring it up and say that I think the whole post count thing is stupid and people take theirs too seriously, I get wailed on by people like Byrne who are major post count tryhards.
Quote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 09:18:30 PMQuote from: Decimator Omega on June 19, 2015, 09:13:47 PMThis is why that chat thread that was pinned would have worked. But we all bitched at how stupid it was remember?What I didn't like about the chat thread is that Cheat said he was gonna delete all of the old chat threads when new ones were made. Why? Because our post counts would get "inflated".Like, who cares? That's just dumb.We could do away with post counts entirely and I wouldn't mind.Oh that's dumb. It's because Cheat wants no one to get to the rank Marty, aka Mythic ++.Can't cheat the Cheat I guess.
Quote from: Decimator Omega on June 19, 2015, 09:33:25 PMQuote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 09:18:30 PMQuote from: Decimator Omega on June 19, 2015, 09:13:47 PMThis is why that chat thread that was pinned would have worked. But we all bitched at how stupid it was remember?What I didn't like about the chat thread is that Cheat said he was gonna delete all of the old chat threads when new ones were made. Why? Because our post counts would get "inflated".Like, who cares? That's just dumb.We could do away with post counts entirely and I wouldn't mind.Oh that's dumb. It's because Cheat wants no one to get to the rank Marty, aka Mythic ++.Can't cheat the Cheat I guess. That rank is achieved by 117 days online.I think you already have to be mythic as well, but posting a shitload in a chat thread wouldn't be enough.
That rank is achieved by 117 days online.
I wouldn't say a natural progression of the conversation equates to derailment - there have been plenty of threads that have done that and remained unlocked.However (using old Serious as an example) - if Meta were to make a thread on the EU, and suddenly on Page 2 Chally and Kinder are screaming about North Korea with no natural progression to connect the two topics, that would equate to a derailed thread.
Quote from: Icy Wind on June 19, 2015, 09:45:50 PMI wouldn't say a natural progression of the conversation equates to derailment - there have been plenty of threads that have done that and remained unlocked.However (using old Serious as an example) - if Meta were to make a thread on the EU, and suddenly on Page 2 Chally and Kinder are screaming about North Korea with no natural progression to connect the two topics, that would equate to a derailed thread.Well, then, I'd like an apology for at least three warnings that I've received.
I'm not a mod.
Quote from: Icy Wind on June 19, 2015, 09:49:15 PMI'm not a mod.I never said you were. I'm speaking generally.
Quote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 09:49:51 PMQuote from: Icy Wind on June 19, 2015, 09:49:15 PMI'm not a mod.I never said you were. I'm speaking generally.I'll pass the message along.
Quote from: Icy Wind on June 19, 2015, 09:50:47 PMQuote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 09:49:51 PMQuote from: Icy Wind on June 19, 2015, 09:49:15 PMI'm not a mod.I never said you were. I'm speaking generally.I'll pass the message along.O.o who are you?it's so icy blue cooool. :: mesmerized ::
Quote from: Sᴏʟ's Sᴏɴɢ on June 19, 2015, 09:38:59 PMThat rank is achieved by 117 days online.i thought it was 117 days on top of having 17,500 postsbecause oss has 125 days, but he doesn't have a custom title set
Quote from: Sᴏʟ's Sᴏɴɢ on June 19, 2015, 09:27:04 PMQuote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 09:18:30 PMQuote from: Decimator Omega on June 19, 2015, 09:13:47 PMThis is why that chat thread that was pinned would have worked. But we all bitched at how stupid it was remember?What I didn't like about the chat thread is that Cheat said he was gonna delete all of the old chat threads when new ones were made. Why? Because our post counts would get "inflated".Like, who cares? That's just dumb.We could do away with post counts entirely and I wouldn't mind.I completely agree, and every time I try to bring it up and say that I think the whole post count thing is stupid and people take theirs too seriously, I get wailed on by people like Byrne who are major post count tryhards.I don't think that's ever happened, you rarely bring that up from what I've seen and a lot of people wouldn't care if post count was gone.
Quote from: Princess-Kitsune on June 19, 2015, 09:55:43 PMQuote from: Icy Wind on June 19, 2015, 09:50:47 PMQuote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 09:49:51 PMQuote from: Icy Wind on June 19, 2015, 09:49:15 PMI'm not a mod.I never said you were. I'm speaking generally.I'll pass the message along.O.o who are you?it's so icy blue cooool. :: mesmerized ::I'm your worst nightmare.
Quote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 09:42:10 PMQuote from: Sᴏʟ's Sᴏɴɢ on June 19, 2015, 09:38:59 PMThat rank is achieved by 117 days online.i thought it was 117 days on top of having 17,500 postsbecause oss has 125 days, but he doesn't have a custom title set My point was more that the hardest part would be the online time, not the posting.Posts happen by themselves, online time takes forever to track up for this of is who don't leave our computer online constantly.
Quote from: True Turquoise on June 19, 2015, 09:43:41 PMQuote from: Sᴏʟ's Sᴏɴɢ on June 19, 2015, 09:27:04 PMQuote from: Verbatim on June 19, 2015, 09:18:30 PMQuote from: Decimator Omega on June 19, 2015, 09:13:47 PMThis is why that chat thread that was pinned would have worked. But we all bitched at how stupid it was remember?What I didn't like about the chat thread is that Cheat said he was gonna delete all of the old chat threads when new ones were made. Why? Because our post counts would get "inflated".Like, who cares? That's just dumb.We could do away with post counts entirely and I wouldn't mind.I completely agree, and every time I try to bring it up and say that I think the whole post count thing is stupid and people take theirs too seriously, I get wailed on by people like Byrne who are major post count tryhards.I don't think that's ever happened, you rarely bring that up from what I've seen and a lot of people wouldn't care if post count was gone. you've really never seen me giving Byrne shit for taking his post count so seriously?But yeah, I stopped trying after the first couple of times I brought it up because of the reasons I said before.I was very avid about it in proboards.