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How old are you, I mean number of locked threads very high. There are some good threads and you lock those whit no reason at all.
Sometimes I have feeling that you close the threads just because you can, or if its something bad at coh.
Have a nice locking.
I can see this thread being locked for ranting. xD
#3
Going to be moving to this thread to Forum Issues in an hour and a half (90 minutes). It'll give you guys a chance to voice your opinions before I finally move it to Forum Issues where the discussion will continue
i've got a question for you, how old are you not to notice that most of the threads that are being locked are not going anywhere but are mostly plain complaints about issues someone has with coh/of and wants to share it to the world. but the world won't listen, the world has more important things to do. most of the "thread locking" decisions are just and right.
I personally feel like the lock-stick is working quite well myself. As Unicous said, most of the threads being locked are threads about people who are pissed off at problems with OF, and can't put it in a rational & calm manner. Then there are just lots of repeat threads going on as well, resulting in lots of clutter. Not EVERY thread locked is because of rants and such, but sometimes just to clean house.
I think some of the forums moderators are careful in their decisions, others this forum would be better without.
I'm glad these boards are so well moderated. This is a place for discussion, and senseless whining/meaningless rants/posts that don't add any discussion value only detract from that.
In fact, I'm surprised what they put up with here. If these were my forums there'd be a few more locked threads/banning/whatever.
but that's just me.
#8
Moving to Forum Issues.
For the record; Rocknroll is talking about the moderating in the Company of Heroes forum
#9
I don't have CoH nor OF, and will not buy them for two reasons:
1) I'm not interested in WWII strategy games. DoW and HW are my niche.
2) The community here is on the whole great, but I have little patience for bitching. I've subscribed to the Forum's RSS feed that shows me new threads, and over the past three days, I've seen way too many "WTF RELIC!?" rants that have no reason to continue after the first post. In fact, most of them might as well be deleted outright.
Unfortunately, seeing as Akranadas moved this to FI, the majority of the whiners will not see this post. I hope that somehow this sentimentality can be broadcasted in plain view for those that would otherwise think that posting such threads is perfectly fine. A game that is just released will not be perfect. It will have problems, and the team is working to fix them. Also, if you pirated the game, may the gods have mercy on your soul, you have no right to be a part of this community and call yourself a gamer. Uberjumper was suspended for saying that (and he went overboard doing such), but he was right. It is time you all learned how to behave yourselves.
As for moderating, I would like to see things tighten up. Some of the members that come into the HW and DoW sections from CoH get their heads bitten off when they post same as they do in CoH. If they learn what's right and wrong in the CoH section, it will help to clean up the whole forum in general.
#10
Please give specific examples otherwise your attitude and complaint are about as useful as a 2 year old. You have about a day to post something with merit or i will just lock this.
#11
Link to thread(s) in question please. If you can provide that you'll find that plenty of non-mod members will be able to give you a view on whether the locking was justified or not.
#12
Rocknroll:
I think it is safe to say most modmins are around 25 and above in age, some over 30.
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#13
In answer to your question, the moderators here cover a wide variety of ages. While I no longer moderate here, I am 40 and am quite sure I was not even the oldest moderator on the staff. The maturity level of the moderators is more important than their ages as each of them have proved that they are capable, and have a high enough level of maturity, to handle the position. Each moderator also has people that they answer to so that suggestions and improvements on how they handle their position can be made and, if necessary, moderators can be removed, or moved around, as deemed necessary.
#14
In fact a higher average age among moderators might even work towards a higher number of threads locked, because as you grow older, you might have less patience for inane and pointless threads and be less likely to let the more "silly" threads go on unlocked.
Like the others have mentioned, providing examples of the "There are some good threads and you lock those whit no reason at all." would be helpful.
#15
Sounds a little like age prejudice to me.It could also be that as moderators grow older they become more relaxed about their position in life and have become more tolerant.
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#16
Yes, we lock more threads than most other gaming forums. We generally think that's a good thing. The forum guidelines even have an entire thread on this.
Well I'll just take a leap of faith here and say the guidelines are viewed subjectively by each individual be him moderator or member so disputes between the two can occur quite frequently when one interpretation clashes with another, its happened to most members at least once and in all fairness some of the cases were kinda offbeat, I mean both views of the guidelines were in large part correct.
As for the maturity part, hope you guys are also looking for non-arrogant people cause its one thing to know better its another to think your 100% right and the other is 100% wrong and therefore warranting sanction.
#18
Actually, we tried to be a little more lenient now that OF is showing that many problems. There are limits however.
And sadly, most people just want to vent steam here instead of putting up a discussion, asking for reasons, whatever.
We'll continue locking that kind of threads as they're useless. That's not gonna change even when I'll reach 30 in 4 years.
'How old are you?' has to be one of the lamest arguements I've ever seen. If he's so worried about it he can leave.
I say stop with the nice time for OF, all these new members need to know whats in the guidelines and so on some time (and the old ones).
And the only thing your going to get from being nice now is alot of work in a couple of months when they keep ignoring the search funktion and so on...
Offcurse I don't mean all..eh.. you understand..
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I found this thread interesting. Maybe I'm just simpleminded but I thought it would be a decent thread. One person didn't think so, so now it's dead.
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=163912
#22
Valkeller - You bring up a good point about extra work, but the staff decided it would be ok. OF caused a lot more heated debate then any other title (this is not just me who believes this but other staff who have been around since the hw and right after launch of dow) due to patch issues, relic online, balance with the four armies (please guys whoever sees this do not turn this into a debate on balance moe and worf will smite you), various errors, first game out of the gate for relic to use vista without needing a patch, and/or various restrictions with the installation and all around running the game.
This does not mean that the guidelines have been thrown out the window. If you see something continue to issue your reports
Freightshaker - Thank you for providing a link and salvaging this thread. SquidDNA has high standards and because of it we get a much better level of discussion then most forums in the GD.
Unfortunately other forums with a GD use it for any crap that doesnt fit into a specific category so when they come here they think the same applies. Thing is, it doesnt at all. The benefits of this is that people can discuss anything from their favorite game to religion to the current "health care in the us" thread sitting in there as we speak. And to hop from one decent post to another you dont have to wade through ten others that say 'you suck', 'america sucks', and/or 'health care sucks'.
Another point that people will learn is that Squid hates list threads... once in a while he will let one through, but on average hes not a fan of them because they really dont offer anything. Now i could be completely wrong but luckily hes got no problems telling me i am nuts when i am... so i imagine he will pop in here and give some other reasons if there are some.
#23
Threads like the one provided don't tend to provide much in the way of discussion. People don't take time to read through them and you eventually see the same things listed again and again.
Also with a topic so general it means that most peopel aren't going to know the majority of things being posted, as such it isn't going to be the most interesting read. Thus only building on the skipping of posts, as you can't be bothered wading through it all.
Overall, I think the example thread was closed because Squid knew exactly where it was going. Simply because, like most mods, he's been around long enough to see lots of them happen before and what it will deteriorate into. Thus he can get it and stop it becoming a problem before it happens.
This, I believe, happens quite alot. And the longer I've spent around here the easier it is for me to see the mods perspective, because you see it happen in the past.
I think it may be more an issue that you don't have the experience of a mod, which is to be expected, so don't understand why some locks happen. Which is understandable.
That's my 2c at least
#24
i'm with MooFreaky here
in fact, my post was basically a reiteration of his post
which is why i spoilered it to remove uneeded clutter
:/
my post
moderators, no matter what age they are have proven their worth and experience in understanding what flies in these forums. i do recall one thread that was locked rather early on the basis of lack of discussion
however, with urging, the thread was unlock but then reloced several weeks later due to an atrocious amount of spamming.
you might not see what is wrong with the thread, but these moderators have a much better handle on the posting habits and forum thread evolution than you do. that's why the have policies against list threads that they know how it will end usually.
it's best to trust their decisions
#26
Just to let people know that the above user is a duplicate of Tigerhunter aka TIGERHUNTER2. Hes a bit of an attention whore and a complete dumbass so you wont be seeing a karos thread for his latest account
#27
Isn't he the guy who insisted he'd keep coming back until he was mentioned in the Graveyard?
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I don;'t know how old most of the staff are and frankly don't care. The few I've picked bits up about I'd not reveal out of simple respect for people's privacy.
On topic, however, with age comes experience, and that can manifest itself in many ways, depending on personality and circumstances. I'd say the older you are the more patience you have with things in general but slao the better able you are to sort the wheat from the chaff. This may appear to be intolerance to those who can't see so readily but in reality is simply a case of the mods being more efficient and simply better at their own jobs than the rest of us, simply because they do it day by day whereas we simply comment on the outcomes.
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#29
Not really sure why this one was moved here in the first place.
"You lock lots. How old are you?" is not a valid forum issue.
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