Is there a glitch in the DS matrix?
lemoncurd
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I've noticed the past two days, threads receiving the padlock treatment on a very random basis. Some, that are sailing very close to the wind in terms of inaccurate or offensive comment go on as normal, whilst others, which seem to have a relatively amiable discussion, get the Yale. There doesn't (to me) look to be anything against Ts&Cs in them.
Examples include "do you get on with your family", the Noah's Ark one and the discussion on the relative success of female chess players.
Examples include "do you get on with your family", the Noah's Ark one and the discussion on the relative success of female chess players.
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I notice however that many of these seemingly innocuous padlocked threads were created by users who have now 'gone fishing'.
I noticed that, something to do with a now inactive user perhaps?
The gender ones are also being watched closely, fair enough.
If we are limited to uncontentious threads I can see problems.
Fair point indeed. I can't see an issue if the user in question actually did return to them and tried to continue the debate but it didn't appear to be the case, so maybe the mods just thought they were spamming the forum ?
He is obviously breaking some rule we can't see, so why not just ban him instead of having all these locked threads?
Very likely although they did mostly look like reasonable issues for threads; there are a lot sillier around. I note all the poster's threads have been locked and there where a lot. I think he has started more threads in a week than I have in 15 years.
The discussion on relative success of female chess players was legit.
I'd love to see a forum where threads did start themselves
yes. it would be great.
None of us are under any obligation to answer questions other posters might have no matter how much we might want or expect it.
If a thread sparks a debate then it's 'job done' IMO
It hasn't worked well for anyone in months.
Forget what the threads are actually about, that's irrelevant here, a new member appears and within 10 days starts 15 threads which are all quickly locked, even inane ones in soap forums.
This means a moderator has a problem with the member, not the threads, the moderator maybe has previous problems with the member under a different name and is locking down all of his threads.
All the posts from the last two weeks missing then just two days ago six months worth of posts gone and only three left from various times in January.
It's more than likely that the member is a PBU and the IP address on each post is the same as the previous user rather than a moderator having a "problem" with someone.
I would be surprised if anyone could get any thread closed without a very good reason. 15 of them just because they did not like the result; no chance. Might as well let them run the forum.
Are they being created by a bot computer with no human input?
All the questions from the started threads are hoovered up by a web service called topusefulsolutions, which then uses the answers to link to web searches about that subject.
Search one his thread titles in "quotes" to see.
Thank you for explaining. I really couldn't be bothered looking that hard into it. Glad others have though.
They are an Inactive Member now
I certainly thought so. I was going to post about a friend of mine who became the Welsh Ladies Chess champion last week!