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Sometimes things are met with a grumble and shrug of the shoulders, not a western style shootout! This doesn’t make the people involved deniers, apologists or sympathisers as is often inferred by said raging individuals
Not a poster I often agree with, but that is a fair comment.
Not agreeing with someone's opinion used to involve good natured if occasionally forceful debate that you could learn stuff from. Now it's full on trench warfare while the General Melchett involved chucks the same old grenades or demands dawn executions for disobedience.
Can we stay on topic please or someone will be held to trial for poor Speckled Jim.
@Drac - while we have your attention... It's my perception that there are fewer Closed Threads than there used to be. Maybe I'm just not noticing, or just not participating enough in those threads. I mean, there are the occasional duplicates and then those that simply become duplicates (the way this one was veering into Brexit again). I'm not seeing so many controversial or confrontational examples though.
Some of the abuse which was levelled at us behind the scenes from a handful of prolific Returning Banned members was literally unbelievable. Seriously, it was insane, you have no concept. I’m half tempted to post examples.
I have a reasonably good imagination, I’d be fascinated to see just how far out of order things could get. From a purely forensic perspective, of course.
Actually as a “left leaning” reader I don’t see a very big right-wing presence. The BBC on the other hand is right leaning by any objective measure.
As a centre-left leaning person, it’s much the same as me, centre-left by any objective definition.
Which basically means it’s roughly centrist.
Can we stay on topic please or someone will be held to trial for poor Speckled Jim.
Is he a baby Robin? Asking for a friend…
Back on topic, I was going to ask about this thread, which has been closed for no apparent reason that I can see:
“ Help fix my broadband as useless provider can’t!”
Just curious, really.
Err, that thread isn't closed.
Back on topic, I was going to ask about this thread, which has been closed for no apparent reason that I can see:
“ Help fix my broadband as useless provider can’t!”
Just curious, really.
It was posted twice by mistake. One of them got closed.
I doubt there were any bans handed out, but you never know 😉
Should have lost the job when she acted as defence for Cummings during his car trip. Allowing him to be a “source” testing out counter stories was insane.
Viewed from Cummings' perspective it was a masterstroke.
And Kuenssberg dumped whatever journalistic scruples she may have had a long time ago to accept a free ride from the Tories.
Her behaviour during covid in particular was disgraceful.
Anyone want to offer any wisdom as to why the Creatine thread was closed?
I'm not that bothered about it (the thread) - although have low dosed a bit of creatine before. Was reading through it - it wasn't heated, didn't seem controversial, can't see an official STW article about creatine - its just closed.
Anyone want to offer any wisdom as to why the Creatine thread was closed?
Yeah I'll have a go...
It's just a very reasonable and I'd say balanced discussion in that everyone is agreeing it's well researched, safe and cheap, with positive but not earth shattering effects if you're doing intense or muscle building exercise.
No controversy or dispute and the same points made a dozen times. Damn right time to close it.
The mistake was not getting into what flavour to get. As someone trying to avoid sugar, I got a lot of pleasure from a fruity sucralose batch....
I would have guessed some sort of astroturfing post that got deleted, and thread closed at the same time.
Yup quite simply we deleted an astroturf post and closed the thread as it’ll attract more.
There may be a good reason for this and I’m not whinging in any way but would it be possible to leave a post on a thread as a final post before locking it
I think it's because someone suggested stirring it into tea.
I don't know if it's one of those flavours that only some people can taste (like coriander, it's either like curry or like soap). But there is zero way I could ever take creatine in anything other than capsule form, it's utterly disgusting.
I meant a post to explain why something was locked.
I'm a former moderator (I mention this only because I think stood down before you joined.) With the caveat that I usually tried to explain when I was closing threads, there's a few reasons why they don't.
Primarily, it leaves the moderation team open to arguments. Your thread gets closed, you disagree with their reasoning, so either immediately start a second thread or send a poison pen email. This happened more often than you might think. There are times when providing an explanation is simply a bad idea.
Secondly, it takes time. The mods are volunteers, and with all due respect they owe you nothing. Sometimes it's plainly obvious that a thread is getting out of hand, it shouldn't be considered unreasonable for them to go "bugger this, I'm closing it and going to bed" rather than typing a paragraph. Other times it's a zombie thread which was resurrected by a spam post and so needs no explanation, it just gets silently closed because a topic which attracts spam tends to attract multiple spam posts. Sometimes posts are duplicates, either two posters creating the same thread (common when it's "RIP [someone]") or one person accidentally submitting the same new thread twice. Again, there's little reason to provide explanations in this case unless both have gained traffic before it was noticed (in which case it's typical to paste a link to the other one before closing).
Thirdly, (I've said this before I think but) this is not done in isolation; if a moderator closed a thread and another disagreed with their decision then there would be a chat about it. So whilst the reason might not be made public, you can rest assured that there was a reason. Threads don't just get shut for the LOLs.
Hope this helps.
Posting something so that when the thread get's closed Cougars post isn't last and preserving his identity as a secret moderator double-agent amongst us.