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Ydiss · 04-01-2003, 08:00 PM

Look, honestly, I have't seen one post in favour of lockage. All I see is people opposed to it, and these people make up this community. Without them this board would be nothing.

Listen to the people, I say. Best way to do it.

You can't please everyone but damn, I think the call on this particular topic is quite clearly cut in favour of being more lenient on locking posts.

As it used to be posts got locked for pretty much only a few reasons:

1) Mentioning or discussing cheats and/or warez.

2) Abusive behaviour (Lord, even this would have to go far before it got locked, if it did at all)

3) Utterly pointless and spammy topics (but by this I mean ones that are quite evidently off-topic on General forum.

Er, that's about it.

Dodd and Rudedog would step in maybe once a week to lock a thread and the forums didn't suffer for it.

Opinion, you might say, but I'll bet I have more agreeing with me on this than not.

I will say this once and for all that it is just about the most annoying thing to have a discussion or argument (even a flame-war) cut short by lockage with only a reason that it's spam.

If it were spam then we'd not post on it, would we?

Even worse is not being able to post on it at all.

Let's all just talk in PMs, shall we?

The edit button has gone already, is it the New Topic button next?

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Ydiss is Offline Senior Member Posts: 2,377 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Nottingham, England	04-01-2003, 08:00 PM Look, honestly, I have't seen one post in favour of lockage. All I see is people opposed to it, and these people make up this community. Without them this board would be nothing. Listen to the people, I say. Best way to do it. You can't please everyone but damn, I think the call on this particular topic is quite clearly cut in favour of being more lenient on locking posts. As it used to be posts got locked for pretty much only a few reasons: 1) Mentioning or discussing cheats and/or warez. 2) Abusive behaviour (Lord, even this would have to go far before it got locked, if it did at all) 3) Utterly pointless and spammy topics (but by this I mean ones that are quite evidently off-topic on General forum. Er, that's about it. Dodd and Rudedog would step in maybe once a week to lock a thread and the forums didn't suffer for it. Opinion, you might say, but I'll bet I have more agreeing with me on this than not. I will say this once and for all that it is just about the most annoying thing to have a discussion or argument (even a flame-war) cut short by lockage with only a reason that it's spam. If it were spam then we'd not post on it, would we? Even worse is not being able to post on it at all. Let's all just talk in PMs, shall we? The edit button has gone already, is it the New Topic button next?