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Post by Gamesoul Master on Jan 23, 2007 11:44:54 GMT -5
Yeah, but Ultima... it's my thread. And it's in Chat. Wouldn't that leave the decision up to me? Besides... I create threads in Chat to make conversation. If it goes off-topic and continues on to something else, then I have no problems at all. As long as people are talking, having fun, and all that good stuff, I couldn't care less where the conversation goes.
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Post by Ultima on Jan 23, 2007 12:08:54 GMT -5
I understand and very-much respect that, but that the off-topicness spread from another thread in another forum doesn't sit well with me, as it's almost saying "I'm going to take this topic with me wherever I go." I didn't want to say anything because it was under the Chat forums, and I generally just don't like bothering with moderating off-topicness (after all, I contribute to some myself anyhow ), but again, I stress the fact that it spread from another thread being why I felt the need to speak out -- and it wasn't just carrying on a conversation from another thread, it was carrying on an off-topic conversation from another thread, and being carried on in parallel/simultaneously (if it weren't, I likely wouldn't have bothered bringing what I did up)
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Jan 23, 2007 13:42:48 GMT -5
That much is understandable. I looked around and couldn't find the other thread you're talking about, so at least I don't have to feel bad that I contributed to that... lol. I should also probably clarify... when I said I don't care where the conversation goes, I meant that in a literary sense, not in the more physical sense of jumping threads. I really shouldn't have used such poor wording there... sorry. :/ To the rest of you who took a part of the thread with you to other threads and infected them... stop it. You're making me look bad cuz it comes from my threads... Edit: ::Slaps self in face:: Duh... I just realized what that other thread was that got infected... and which I was also posting in. Bah... I thought you meant a serious thread, not a thread whose topic died as soon as the voting was over. That thread was sort-of a chat thread anyway, considering that while it did involve pSX, it was relating to a poll on a completely different site. And since the original topic of that thread is technically dead, it's fair game to continue on the remaining/straggler topics brought up in it until the thread slowly dies out.
Something wrong Ultima? You usually don't moderate the General and Chat threads so hard... I could understand if things needed to be said or done in the threads in question here, but they're just chit-chat threads. I'd understand if you asked that they don't spread any further, into threads of importance. But to be upset about a off-topic conversation going from one chat-topic thread to another... It almost seems like you're a bit more stressed than usual...
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Post by Ultima on Jan 23, 2007 13:59:48 GMT -5
Nah, nothing wrong here, thanks for the concern though Perhaps my stern dealings with nubcakes in another forum is starting to rub off here, but I tend not to think so (or at least hope not). I don't particularly care too much, but just the idea of an off-topic discussion becoming viral across at least two threads gives it potential to "infect" other threads. Maybe I'm just underestimating the self-control and common sense of users in these forums (lol, that's probably the side effect from my moderating another forum -- some of the people in the other forums just have no common sense, and my more-strict attitude there might carry over xD).
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Jan 23, 2007 14:03:55 GMT -5
That makes sense. Well... I suppose being a little over-concerned is a lot better than not being concerned at all. And I'm glad to hear you're not too over-stressed. Don't let that "real world" get you stressed out for when you come to your true life here...
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Post by patrickp on Jan 23, 2007 14:44:32 GMT -5
TBH, I don't think the topic spread from the other forum: it arose here spontaneously. kinghanco made a couple of remarks that I think genuinely arose from the discussion, I riposted to them, and I _know_ my reply was not in any way related to the other thread, and then... Are you saying it was _created_ here, Ultima? In that case, should you not insist it be given equal time with speechlessnessism?
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Post by Ultima on Jan 23, 2007 14:52:35 GMT -5
Are you saying it was _created_ here, Ultima? Nope, not at all (I did say it spread from the other forum too). I doubt it came up as a discussion on its own in this thread because (1) I see no indication at all that religion was at all tied into this thread (especially by the second reply), and (2) kinghanco posted in the other thread, then this thread, of which both posts were (loosely) religiously-tied. But I'm overanalyzing this, and it's as Gamesoul Master said (and as I explained earlier) -- I'm probably just being over-worried over nothing. And if/when kinghanco ever reads this, the discussion's probably going to make him feel guilty (which is/was not my intention), so I think I'm just going to stop explaining myself now
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Post by Melanogaster on Jan 23, 2007 16:52:34 GMT -5
Well, you guys really know how to kill a thread! Heh...
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Post by patrickp on Jan 23, 2007 16:59:20 GMT -5
So will this thread go to heaven or h... AWK!
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Post by Melanogaster on Jan 23, 2007 17:13:39 GMT -5
Heheh... Seems Ultima's not very fond to our off-topic-ness, so let's just say it's going to heaven and everybody will be happy!
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Post by Ultima on Jan 23, 2007 17:16:37 GMT -5
Erm, I was never complaining about the off-topicness itself... ;\
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Jan 23, 2007 23:15:36 GMT -5
This thread is coming to hell with us. Everything we touch is probably going to hell... lol. Because everything we touch becomes too interesting to go to such a boring place of harps and clouds... XD
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2007 8:47:26 GMT -5
This post is in no way meant to be offensive or anything like that, but just in case it somehow goes beyond my intentions, I apologize in advance. I can never predict where my thoughts take me. it's my thread...[snip]...Wouldn't that leave the decision up to me? This is something I have never understood, but I have seen people mention and even tried to justify their actions with it. I've personally never considered any threads I've ever made, in any forum, to be "mine" and that I'd would have some power over it. Where does this idea originate from? I don't think it's very practical to "own" threads like this. Mainly because you have no literal power over it (unless you are a mod, and if you are, then you have the power over every thread, so it's kind of not the same thing), so there is really nothing you can do if someone doesn't follow your lead or your rules. It just something I don't quite understand and see the point of. Is it all about mutual respect between members, or something else? Enlighten me please.
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Post by Ultima on Jan 24, 2007 8:53:29 GMT -5
Is it all about mutual respect between members ... ? From my point of view, yes, that's what it happens to be I just going to warn that what I've said in this thread so far about me being a bit soft about off-topic topics doesn't signal a green light for other off-topic topics to start all over, as it's still in the forum rules that members should always try to remain on topic (otherwise, discussions become discombobulated and too difficult to follow ;\)... If a thread starts to bother me again, I will have to moderate, regardless of the OP's feelings on the matter ;o In a case like this thread, it wasn't too much of a deviation, it was just the spreading factor (as I've explained over and over) that worried me. *IN OTHER NEWS* The bid's been over since yesterday, and apparently, someone withdrew their bid, as the winning bid was AU $7,500, a far cry from the AU $30,000 that it was at when first posted here ;o
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