Locked Threads: Bane of Information Sharing

Published on November 17, 2004 By Deference In Politics

I've been running in to a bunch of locked threads lately. It began with Wisefawn's but the trend has seemingly infected other bloggers. I back Draginol's statement on JU syndication and the insinuation that locking threads is a bit unjust and stifles debate. The only purpose of locking a thread, it seems, is to get your opinion out and exclude outside comment. This destroys the full potential offered by JU and is a near abuse of the free service provided. Come on folks, lets keep the flow of information going.

Comments

T B

on Nov 17, 2004

This destroys the full potential offered by JU and is a near abuse of the free service provided.

I tend to agree (just delete the word near). It's pretty clear that those with locked threads don't want debate, or their beliefs challenged. IF they want to live in their own little world, more power to em, but if I was the admin, I'd pull the plug on it (particularly in light of the service provided - for free). Why allocate resources to those willing to abuse the privilege and bandwidth when it could be utilized for those willing to use the resources for it's intended purpose?

BlueDev

on Nov 17, 2004

But that is implying that everything that is written here should be up for debate. And that makes no sense to me. Now, simply doing it because you don't want to have to answer to perhaps unfounded or ridiculous statements is childish and cowardly. If we are only talking about not allowing comments on things that get posted in the forums I am in agreement 100%.

But remember that you will still see on your sidebar (in the articles area) articles that are being written and not being posted to the forums. I think people should have 100% control of what they post strictly to their blogs (within the TOS). So, in summary: No comments and posting to the forums is pathetic IMO. No comments and just in your blog is perfectly understandable to me.

Deference

on Nov 17, 2004

Good points Bluedev, I do disagree, however, with your first point. I think anything posted is pretty much open for debate if not, at least, comment. This really is a small hair, to split, though, seeing as how I we agree on the main point....

Solitair

on Nov 18, 2004

I would desire that anything posted in the forum categories should be open to debate. It's a forum! This is most particular true for anything posted in the political section where there are almost always many sides to any point. For someone to post a locked thread detracts from the forum aspect. They could just keep posting once a day to ensure that their locked point is always at the top of the forum. Not really acceptable.

Paul.

BlueDev

on Nov 18, 2004

I do disagree, however, with your first point. I think anything posted is pretty much open for debate if not, at least, comment.

Like I said (and not too clearly at the beginning), I think anything that goes to the forums should be open, but thing posted strictly on personal blogs should have the option of being just that, personal. Otherwise we are turning a blogging site into nothing more than a mish-mosh of forums. There are more than enough of those out there. What I think makes JU different is the fact that you can come and have your own blog, which is strictly for you (and those you want to see it via the custom audiences), or you can add the interaction of the forums. Take either of those away and this site is no different than hordes of others out there. Minor point I suppose, but I feel it is an important one.

Deference

on Nov 18, 2004

not inviting comments is perfectly acceptable, because some people like to use the service as a personal journal, and we dont all want comments in our diaries!

When you put it that way, I guess I must agree with you and BluDev. I actually don't understand the purpose of blogging without interaction / feedback, but I can see this angle.

Locking threads that get out of control is a good use of the option, but during the build up in the election I saw many out of control threads that went unchecked. I'm sure you all can think of a few good examples off the top of your heads..

Little whip, instead of "suspected", did you mean "deferece"? I am positive I'm not locked out of these threads. The locked threads are coming from someone new to this site. I'm sure I've done my best to step on some people's toes, but miraculously, I don't think any of the stalwarts here have blacklisted me - yet.

Texas Wahine

on Nov 20, 2004

Arrgggh! Locked threads are pissing me off. Very cowardly.

Daniel Ruoss

on Nov 20, 2004

I've been blacklisted. It seems that T_Bone4Justice is just a hypersensitive blowhard and really only enjoys "hearing" himself talk. God forbid you disgaree with him! If you do that it means you're childish and immature. He has the nerve to call my posts baiting and inflaming. Well, if anyone has bothered to read any of his liberal tripe it is completely written with the point of trying to bait people and inflame those who disagree. I just find it ridiculous that someone would get so upset and sensitive over some humorous disagreement. I'll admit to being a smart-ass at times but I mean, c'mon! Let's not take ourselves too seriously in here. This the PM politics board not the US Senate Chamber. Things should stay open in here until someone truly goes 'out-of-bounds'.

TaBooTenente

on Nov 20, 2004

I'm agreeing with Deference and Little_Whip on this one. It seems silly to post something in the forum and not expect people to discuss. It's a forum, right? It seems worse than silly to post something on the forum and only allow a certain handful of people to discuss it.

Nevertheless, no-one should feel bad about posting an article without wanting to make it a focus for discussion. An article can be a forum post, a forum post can be an article; but sometimes they also should be mutually exclusive. If someone reads an article and decides it should be opened for forum discussion, then he/she can open it in the forum him/herself.

Good post, Deference.

TBT

williamgeorge

on Feb 13, 2009

Locked threads are good for forum administrator because if some spam/scam are posted in a particular thread mean, entire forum will get affected and because of that many loss may happen to the forum owner...

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