Donald Trump: Come Kiss the Ring

There is an explanation. It's right on the thread line. Tough to find for you guys, I know.

 

The thread you guys are talking about was deleted from public view. So registered users can't see it anymore. The moderating crew can see what happened to it, with an explanation. If you really care, that thread had turned into a nursery school playground argument between some immature users who are incapable of walking away from strangers they don't like on a message board.

When you are critical of a thread having been nuked (you think it should have been locked instead), please keep in mind that a lot of times when a thread gets locked, one or more of the moderators have already gone in and deleted a bunch of problem posts before it got locked.

When a thread runs on with several pages of people acting idiotically before any of us see it, it might be a PITA or very time consuming to have to go through the thread and clean up it post by post. So one of the moderators might decide it is just easier to remove the thread from public view and move on. That's probably what happened on that one.

I'm not sure why it would matter to anyone, other than to have something to piss and moan about (I get that is SJ.com's national pastime). ... That thread had run its course. Nobody was adding anything important about the topic anymore.

 

Nope. Lots of threads meander into other things. Not all of them end up with several users going off the rails.

 

Because Jeff, who does the banning and suspensions, is not on here all of the time. Plus, when people get suspended or banned, it has never been done lightly. It's usually discussed among the moderators first. As a safeguard against acting rashly.

Even if the moderators had the authority to unilaterally suspend or ban people at their discretion--because, for example, a thread had been derailed--we'd be criticized even worse for using that power than we already are for all the other things people have a problem with. Many of the people who complain the loudest about the moderating would find themselves banned from the site in that world -- rather than seeing an occasionally thread locked or removed because of something they did.

In the case of that thread, even if the moderators had the ability to suspend the posting privileges of the people who had gone off the rails, it doesn't change the fact that that thread had already been ruined by several pages that amounted to little more than idiocy and people bickering with each other. The moderator who shut it down probably decided he had better things to do with his time than go through and edit it post by post to get rid the bullshit. I get it if you and Riptide don't like that decision, but please respect it. My point is that that particular thread had already run its course. It's not as if it was shut down early, while people were still adding to the conversation.