Tired of Thread Crapping

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I think this forum is moderated enough as it is, the Mods going around and looking for posts to declare thread craps would really suck.

 

[diaglo]

I think this forum is moderated enough as it is, the Mods going around and looking for posts to declare thread craps would really suck.

and take too much splainin' via email afterwards

 

[GQuail]

to use your example then.

i have never, ever, threadcrapped. ever.

i only say things in threads in which i have an interest.

whether it be to relate my opinion on the way things were done previously, currently or in the future. i still have an interest in the topic of that thread. and thus why i post.

others will disagree. as i have often been told by posters in topics to stop threadcrapping.

but instead of argue with them. i place them on ignore.

This is an important point: one man's discussion is another's threadcrapping. One person's "deleted for threacrapping" is another's "deleted for having a contrarian viewpoint to everyone else". Where do you draw the line?

I've reported people in the past because I thought their contributions to threads were entirely unhelpful. In particular, posters who have a single topic and will turn everything around really annoy me. You know, like that friend you have who is really into a certain TV show or sports team, and any question somehow gets twisted back around until he can drop in his favourite episode or the poor choice of the current coach? I consider these tenuous leaps to be threadcrapping, especially if they post more than once when there's no positive responce to them. Still,, the mods can't be expected to appear in every occasion since often the line is blurry: because often it's connected enough that a proper moderator warning would seem silly.

The best you can do is report people and then put them on ignore if they regularly get in your way.

 

[Joshua Randall]

I'm sorry, diaglo, but if someone posts a thread about understanding AOOs in 3e, and you respond by saying how superior OD&D combat is/was -- that is not helpful. I'm not sure that it's full-on threadcrapping, but it's just annoying.

 

[kirinke]

I'm sorry, diaglo, but if someone posts a thread about understanding AOOs in 3e, and you respond by saying how superior OD&D combat is/was -- that is not helpful. I'm not sure that it's full-on threadcrapping, but it's just annoying.

Just thwap Diaglo on the head and move on. It's become something of a running gag around here. Like with Crothian's alts.

 

[GQuail]

Just thwap Diaglo on the head and move on. It's become something of a running gag around here. Like with Crothian's alts.

You say "running gag", he says "worn-out gag". Sometimes it's not as funnier to passers by as it is to you, you know?

 

[kirinke]

You say "running gag", he says "worn-out gag". Sometimes it's not as funnier to passers by as it is to you, you know?

Welll. There is that handy, dandy, nifty, keeno, thingamagumi, whatamajigi option thing called um... I dunno if it's appropriate for this forum though....

Ignore? Yeh. That's it.

Ignore.

One must follow one's own advice occasionally, yes?

Although, I think this entire thread is silly and approaching "but mommy said!"

Durned, I miss rollseye!

Oi! Oh moderator ones, could ya'll introduce the banana man and Mr bow smilie to the forum?