Post by addicted2rpg on Feb 3, 2004 21:11:11 GMT
Adyanna, I asked you last week 
A bit late, are we?
Anyway, I asked you because I had interepeted, correctly or not, that you were feeling a need to express yourself more on the server and in the direction it is headed. The CJ is an excellent collection of threads where dozens of players did exactly just that!
If you -really- read through all those posts, I think it would be pretty obvious why topics get locked. They get locked because they go off topic.
The original CJ thread was posted by Silentus. It was locked. After reviewing it very carefully and coming up with a basis for a second round of talks that would be more pointed and clear, I started a new one (surprise surprise).
That thread ran its course, and it too was locked. Other threads were started drawing ideas from that one.
I think the locking of posts is apart of the birth and death of threads, think of it as a kind of lifecycle. It is not apart of some underground Nazi or Communist scheme to censor people from speaking. Some threads don't need locking because interest is lost before its natural termination. High interest topics will stop in the same fashion (a couple of them have that we missed locking), but usually several off-topic postings happen first.
Keep in mind "idea management" is a rather important concept. We don't want them to get lost. What if a really good idea got missed because the topic it *really* should be under was actually under another topic because it was an off-topic branch off? It could get lost because we might be reviewing certain topics relevant an idea we want to implement. Said relevant ideas, if hidden in other threads, will get missed in the review!
This is why we lock topics.
boing boing boing boing.
We always appreciate participation. Its like Nike. Just do it!
A bit late, are we?Anyway, I asked you because I had interepeted, correctly or not, that you were feeling a need to express yourself more on the server and in the direction it is headed. The CJ is an excellent collection of threads where dozens of players did exactly just that!
If you -really- read through all those posts, I think it would be pretty obvious why topics get locked. They get locked because they go off topic.
The original CJ thread was posted by Silentus. It was locked. After reviewing it very carefully and coming up with a basis for a second round of talks that would be more pointed and clear, I started a new one (surprise surprise).
That thread ran its course, and it too was locked. Other threads were started drawing ideas from that one.
I think the locking of posts is apart of the birth and death of threads, think of it as a kind of lifecycle. It is not apart of some underground Nazi or Communist scheme to censor people from speaking. Some threads don't need locking because interest is lost before its natural termination. High interest topics will stop in the same fashion (a couple of them have that we missed locking), but usually several off-topic postings happen first.
Keep in mind "idea management" is a rather important concept. We don't want them to get lost. What if a really good idea got missed because the topic it *really* should be under was actually under another topic because it was an off-topic branch off? It could get lost because we might be reviewing certain topics relevant an idea we want to implement. Said relevant ideas, if hidden in other threads, will get missed in the review!
This is why we lock topics.
boing boing boing boing.
We always appreciate participation. Its like Nike. Just do it!
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