Attn: Deron

[ThisIsACoolName]

thats just crossing the line from reasonable moderation to downright totalitarianism.

Agreed. It was serving it's purpose. People were posting pictures and posting other comments that don't deserve their own threads.

Does Deron want one thread for that shit, or a new thread being made everytime the Greys wants to show us what beer he is drinking or everytime Dave wishes to inform us that he is off to the gym?

 

[Vitor]

guys, we can have a hot girls thread if everybody won't post amateur pics... i guess

 

[MetalAges]

I'd rather not. Listen, I'm all for hot chicks and what not, but it 's more hassle for me than it is worth. There's a gazillion sites out there that cater to stuff like that and/or welcome it, I'd rather not have that here guys.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Totally understand that the hot girls thread was deleted. I'm amazed it lasted as long as it did.

And with regards to the social thread, I think it's a bit silly to expect there to be no big threads created. If this whole subforum was created for that purpose, I don't think enough thought was put in. You can't just go shutting every thread that exceeds a certain number of pages. Well you can, but it's going to piss a lot of people off every time. Surely addressing the technical problem would be a better way of dealing with it?

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

With regards to the hot girls thread... Deron is right that he can get unwanted attention, be it the cops or parents or religious groups... the "teen" pics bordered on porn and this country has a law that if they are models then the owner of a site has to put a "2257" disclosure... you will see such a link for a "2257" in most adult sites and model sites... it's usually at the bottom of the site... it pretty much states that the owner of the site keep records of the models names, ages etc. and if the pics are from another site then Deron in this case would have to keep a record of each site those pics came from... more hassle then it's worth.. and since Deron owns this site he can do whatever the fuck he wants including deleting whatever thread he wants.. when you own your own site you can do what you want with it... even break the law if you don't care... btw I do miss the thread though.. was entertaining...

 

[zabu of nΩd]

So, is Deron going to close every thread that becomes 50-ish or more pages long? Does that mean we're not allowed to have any of the following popular threads?

- love/hate thread
- black metal thread
- "music you like" thread
- "now playing" thread
- hauls thread
- many of the thread games (well... okay, they can go)

If closing big threads is the only thing that's going to be done to remedy their drain on the site's resources, then at least put up a new thread for the topic each time you close an old one, and maybe start some kind of numbering/dating system in the thread titles so that people can look for older ones if they want to.

 

[unknown]

deron has threatened to close the music you like thread and maybe the now playing thread. he also has closed some of the games threads. of the list you just posted, the only threads of value, in my opinion, are the black metal thread and the music you like thread. the now playing thread seems pretty pointless to me. Get an audioscrobbler if you want people to know what you're listening to.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

deron has threatened to close the music you like thread and maybe the now playing thread. he also has closed some of the games threads. of the list you just posted, the only threads of value, in my opinion, are the black metal thread and the music you like thread. the now playing thread seems pretty pointless to me. Get an audioscrobbler if you want people to know what you're listening to.

My point was that some topics are destined to be popular, and thus to accumulate tons of posts. It seems pretty moronic to me to not allow any popular threads at all to exist.

 

[unknown]

Yeah, I understood that you were trying to point out Deron's hypocrisy er whatever. And it would be moronic to try and control the length of discussion, but when there's nothing important being discussed (and I'm guessing this is the case in the now playing thread I'm not sure I haven't visited it in ages), why bother having the thread?

The pictures thread was useful and did have a purpose.

edit:...well...ditto basically what Dodens said

 

[Blue_Jay]

Wtf the pictures/social thread did not deserve to be locked. I scrolled through the pages and found nothing offense or harming at all on there that deserved to be locked. What's wrong with the mods, the forums was going so well until the mods did another wrong but w/e nobody's perfect. The girls thread I can understand even though it was one of my most favorite threads but the Pictures/Social thread? God...

 

[unknown]

it wasn't the "modS" it was just Deron.

 

[Blue_Jay]

Oh ok

I had nothing against Deron until now I thought he was smart?

 

[Hubster]

As much as I liked the thread, I have to agree it was getting out of hand. Those underage photos were foul. Deron did the right thing.

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

I dont give a shit about the hot girls thread, if you wanna wank, go on a porn site, or google image search for shit. But like Zep said the photo thread had now gone which sucks.

 

[CF87]

I find it funny the social thread is closed because a lot of people who spend time in there have thousands of posts and rarely actually talk about music. I think someone who would to come to a music discussion forum this big just to hang out in a social chat behind a screen must be really lame.

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

The social thread had nothing to do with music, this whole social forum has very little to do with music so of course the people posting here often wont talk about music that much.

 

[Knarfi]

I find it funny the social thread is closed because a lot of people who spend time in there have thousands of posts and rarely actually talk about music. I think someone who would to come to a music discussion forum this big just to hang out in a social chat behind a screen must be really lame.

The whole point of the social thread is the ability to talk about non-music-related things on this forum

 

[MetalAges]

I swear you guys are the most pissy bunch I have ever seen (almost), and make more out of something than needs be (beyond a doubt).

The Social sub-forum was created for the explicit reason of taking a gi-normous thread, and allowing for individual posts and topics, so we could eliminate having a huge thread. I looked through some of the new social/pic thread, and it was the same damn thing the old one was, to a tee.

If you want a "pic" thread, then start a "pic" thread. If you want a "I'm drinking now..." thread to post pics of what you're currently drinking, do it! If you want to tell someone you were hired at McDonald's today, start a thread! It's a SOCIAL-FORUM, the sole purpose for this SOCIAL-FORUM is so you CAN post quickie things like that, along with other more engaging social topics.

Let's just stop lumping everything into one huge thread, again, because that's what this freakin' sub-forum was created for, to AVOID that. QUIT FUCKING WHINING ABOUT IT for fucks sake. I'll have to dig up some kind of diaper add-on to this forum at this point, sheesh.

 

[CAIRATH]

Just out of curiosity, what exactly is it that causes threads with a large number of pages to put more load on the server in vBulletin? Because as someone who programs web applications for a living that just reeks of incredibly poor implementation to me. Either that or there is something seriously wrong with the database schema.

 

[entanglement]

I don't think alteration of a MySQL database's schema is a requisite for vBulletin installations.. a default installed database instance works just fine. If those rare glitches that UM goes through from time to time are the issue, those are encountered even on threads with a minimal number of pages/posts.