Thread ownership

[DaveMage]

It would be easier for the one person to stop taking part, rather than making everyone else go somewhere else.

I agree, and actually I was a bit surprised that it didn't simply happen this way.

From a personal perspective, what you suggest is exactly what I would do in that circumstance. But, to each their own, I guess. *shrug*

 

[Mark]

These kind of things are always difficult to discuss with all of the "what if?" scenarios that surround hypotheticals. Maybe a discussion about the actual thread in question (since it wasn't closed for rudeness or bad behavior) would help to resolve the issue? Is this it...? -

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=129398

 

[Greylock]

I kinda figured it was that thread. I think the OP might have had general reservations about continuing that line of discussion, maybe even some regret over starting it in the first place (assuming a lot on my part), and it did have his name written all over it. The argument was going nowhere anyways.

 

[Crothian]

These kind of things are always difficult to discuss with all of the "what if?" scenarios that surround hypotheticals. Maybe a discussion about the actual thread in question (since it wasn't closed for rudeness or bad behavior) would help to resolve the issue? Is this it...? -

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=129398

That's the thread

 

[Mark]

If my screenname was at the top of that thread, I'd ask that it be closed, too. Every now and again, when a discussion at your house party goes down a dark road, you just have to tell people to take it outside...or back to their place.

 

[thalmin]

But it isn't polite to do that when you are at someone else's house.

 

[Umbran]

Yeah, well this is either everyone's house, or Morrus' house. This system works well if it is everyone's. And if Morrus says it's okay in his house, that's the way we play it.

 

[diaglo]

Yeah, well this is either everyone's house, or Morrus' house. This system works well if it is everyone's. And if Morrus says it's okay in his house, that's the way we play it.

i claim the second guest bedroom on the right

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I don't see what the big deal is here. Maybe it wasn't handled the best way, but since the thread was not closed for violation of the rules, there is nothing stopping someone from starting a new thread, linking to the closed one in the first post and continuing the conversation. To me that is equivalent to the idea of taking the conversation outside. Maybe thread starters should "leave the room" instead of making everyone leave, but again they can't stop everyone else from continuing somewhere else.

Part of this particular case to me is that the tone had dropped from being completely civil (at least one other poster felt the thread was going to be closed soon) and the thread starter may have felt partially responsible for that so asked it be closed before it got out of hand and was forced closed by the moderators.

 

[Morrus]

i claim the second guest bedroom on the right

'Fraid I only have a couch spare. But you're welcome to it!