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I was given an infraction for the post I made in that thread and it was clear I was joking...
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If a number of people thought you were not joking, the statement that "it was clear that I was joking" is by definition not true.
while I really think that the moderation here in the forum is actually very good I just stumbled across an example of imho causeless attack and absolutely bad moderation. I just take that as motivation to ask about the general policy that's in place nowadays and whether this was just an accident.
Background: I was looking for an answer to the "wazapp, failed, too many" issue.
So, I found the following thread, which very precisely describes this issue: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=85969
The first answer in this thread is just a blunt, offensive answer directed at the thread opener that claims this thread should be closed and refers to the "main thread", that happens to be the announcement thread.
Even ignoring that this answer is against all netiquette there is a much more general problem here:
imho it is good practice to keep threads on a single, precisely cut topic. While the announce thread may be good for general discussion and chit chat, a 229 page thread is _not_ (again imho) a good resource to quickly and precisely find very special information.
So, what the opener of the aforementioned thread did was just that: he opened a thread on the dedicated topic of solving the above mentioned issue. Imho this corresponds to the very common sense of having a dedicated thread per topic and does not violate any rules nor qualifies as duplicate thread.
What bugs me most is that this really unpolite and unhelpful behavior as can be seen in the first answer (even the link given there to the main thread doesn't point to a particular post for solving that issue nor does it help otherwise) is backed and supported by a moderator closing that thread.
So please, am I too picky about this? Or was this just an accident? Is it sufficient for closing a thread that just some guy steps up, writes a rude post and suddenly the thread gets locked?
Thanks and best regards,
wonko
Edit: Is it possible that the thread linked above gets re-opened for discussing that very issue?
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Last edited by Wonko; 2012-08-11 at 20:00. Reason: Fix typos.