Your Opinion

[John S]

Should a thread be closed because "it has run it's course"?

 

[Lovely Lane]

...if that is what the OP believes, I suppose so.

 

[tulc]

No. Threads can go away for a while but comeback later and that can be fun.
tulc(liked seeing all those "President Obama's going to lose BIG TIME!" brought back!)

 

[Creech]

No. Threads can go away for a while but comeback later and that can be fun.
tulc(liked seeing all those "President Obama's going to lose BIG TIME!" brought back!)

Those threads cracked me up too!

 

[PetLuv]

Topics can bring up other topics so it is all still combined in some way or another so I'd say no.

Good luck on keeping this one open though..

 

[tulc]

Those threads cracked me up too!

See? Two people who agree on very little agree on this!
tulc(suspects that our agreeing on something may well be a sign of the Apocalypse!)

 

[John S]

LL - "Republicans - What Now" was closed because the mod wrote that this thread has has a minor cleaning and it WILL be closed. I added a post, Sharon anwered it, and I followed with my reply - and then there was POSSIBLY another post. Those 3 or 4 posts were then deleted and a padlock was put on the thread.

Tulc - As I said, "Republicans - What Now" CANNOT be brought back because there is a padlock on it because it was decided that this thread had "run it's course".

PetLuv - To be honest, I'm surprised that this thread is still open or deleted.

 

[Lovely Lane]

LL - "Republicans - What Now" was closed because the mod wrote that this thread has has a minor cleaning and it WILL be closed. I added a post, Sharon anwered it, and I followed with my reply - and then there was POSSIBLY another post. Those 3 or 4 posts were then deleted and a padlock was put on the thread.

oh ok, I didn't know that. Maybe it's because the Republicans had no new ideas and they were just defending the same old failed policies, which became quite boring to me. That redhead mod is usually fair about rules and stuff, maybe she was keeping the peace by closing your thread for it did veer off course. Bottom line...Republicans have no new ideas.

 

[John S]

LL - I don't have a problem with threads dying. It happens every day. In fact, that thread hadn't had a post for days.
I have a problem with a thread being padlocked on a whim, which didn't have anything to do with the poor or bad content of the thread. It was PERMANENTLY closed because ONE person decided that it had "run it's course".

I'm Sorry - I have a problem with that.

 

[Lovely Lane]

LL - I don't have a problem with threads dying. It happens every day. In fact, that thread hadn't had a post for days.
I have a problem with a thread being padlocked on a whim, which didn't have anything to do with the poor or bad content of the thread. It was PERMANENTLY closed because ONE person decided that it had "run it's course".

I'm Sorry - I have a problem with that.

ok, maybe pm redhead mod and ask for a explanation, if you haven't already done so.

 

[ptomwebster]

oh ok, I didn't know that. Maybe it's because the Republicans had no new ideas and they were just defending the same old failed policies, which became quite boring to me. That redhead mod is usually fair about rules and stuff, maybe she was keeping the peace by closing your thread for it did veer off course. Bottom line...Republicans have no new ideas.

And the Dem's idea that we can spend our way out of debt is so new! Spend and tax, spend and tax!

 

[Lovely Lane]

And the Dem's idea that we can spend our way out of debt is so new! Spend and tax, spend and tax!

hey, wasn't that a Romney slogan?
I haven't heard of that one since the republican congress cut the checks 2 years ago.
So, what are the republicans saying today?
I heard the 'R's' on Capitol Hill are learning Chicago politics the hard way.

 

[John S]

LL - It sets a bad precedent to padlock threads because a person "felt like closing it".

 

[Lovely Lane]

LL - It sets a bad precedent to padlock threads because a person "felt like closing it".

I think the precedent had already been set, and this was just another monitoring of the established standard in the world of CF moderators.

 

[LuminousPhoenix]

No. Let the users decide when a topic has run its course.