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I'm not sure to understand the reasons to lock this thread


Nicos wrote:

I'm not sure to understand the reasons to lock this thread

The last post on your thread (which you have linked to) appears to be by a Paizo staff-member, who (as far as I understand) seemed to think that the thread-title was potentially inflammatory: *Link*


Charles Evans 25 wrote:
Nicos wrote:

I'm not sure to understand the reasons to lock this thread

The last post on your thread (which you have linked to) appears to be by a Paizo staff-member, who (as far as I understand) seemed to think that the thread-title was potentially inflammatory: *Link*

Well, yes, not sure why. And even then, other threads with far more inflammatory tittles have been renamed instead of just locked.


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Nicos wrote:


Well, yes, not sure why. And even then, other threads with far more inflammatory titles have been renamed instead of just locked.

If it's really bothering you, you could always give (politely) emailing the staff-member in question (via the Paizo Contact Us page) a go.


The staff-member's post in question also references posting specific questions about specific items. Perhaps the feeling was that, in addition to having an inflammatory title, the thread was too generic to engender less helpful discussion than bickering and in-fighting?


Charles Evans 25 wrote:
Nicos wrote:


Well, yes, not sure why. And even then, other threads with far more inflammatory titles have been renamed instead of just locked.

If it's really bothering you, you could always give (politely) emailing the staff-member in question (via the Paizo Contact Us page) a go.

I suppose, But I do not feel like I have been rude or something here.


Antimony wrote:
The staff-member's post in question also references posting specific questions about specific items. Perhaps the feeling was that, in addition to having an inflammatory title, the thread was too generic to engender less helpful discussion than bickering and in-fighting?

Yet there was no fight in there, no one called names or anything like that.

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Your thread was begging to be locked. Your opening post with it's negative attitude toward the staff guaranteed that was going to happen as soon as a staff person noticed it. Go back and reread it several times and try to put yourself in the shoes of the people you directed it towards.

If you can't answer your own question by doing this, I don't think anyone else here can.


Nicos wrote:
Charles Evans 25 wrote:
Nicos wrote:


Well, yes, not sure why. And even then, other threads with far more inflammatory titles have been renamed instead of just locked.

If it's really bothering you, you could always give (politely) emailing the staff-member in question (via the Paizo Contact Us page) a go.

I suppose, But I do not feel like I have been rude or something here.

Well the only person, who can explain to you one hundred percent authoritatively what was going through the mind of the staff member who locked the thread is the staff member who *did* lock the thread*. All anyone else can do is mindlessly speculate, which may not be entirely productive.

* Unless of course, to wear a tin-foil hat for a moment, Paizo have developed a universal mind, shared by all Paizo staff members. Although actually, given that at least Vic and Erik are Doctor Who fans... And if they've seen Shada...
<shivers and pulls down tin-foil hat around ears a bit tighter>
;)


LazarX wrote:
Your thread was begging to be locked. Your opening post with it's negative attitude toward the staff guaranteed that was going to happen as soon as a staff person noticed it.

...wait, what?

Was there negative attitude towards staff in the OP that I didn't notice? Where?

I am not sure what one of us is missing, that you see hostility towards staff so blatant as to be begging for a thread lock in the OP, whereas I don't see anything either advancing, denying, or relating to hostility to the staff in the post at all.


After reading the thread in question I have to agree that overzealous moderation took place. Clearly Liz has a different conotational meaning for "nerf" than I do, but beyond that she clearly didn't read the thread from a neutral perspective before locking it down. The OP and subsequent discussion were completely civil and in no way whatsoever begged for a lock.

General discussion over current rules trends should not be discouraged. The idea that general trends is not a specific enough topic is pretty nuts.

Hopefully they will open that thread back up, but almost certainly not.


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LazarX wrote:

Your thread was begging to be locked. Your opening post with it's negative attitude toward the staff guaranteed that was going to happen as soon as a staff person noticed it. Go back and reread it several times and try to put yourself in the shoes of the people you directed it towards.

If you can't answer your own question by doing this, I don't think anyone else here can.

What makes your reading of this post so wrong, and incidentally why the locking of the thread was such a bad call, is that the OP seems to agree with the changes. He is using the term "nerf" as a descriptor rather than a judgement. It is actually quite strange to say someone is being derogatory of something they agree with. Perhaps you (and the moderation staff) should not seek out offense where none exists.


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