Are there rules against mods re-opening threads to get last words in?

[Mhurron]

Re: Are there rules against mods re-opening threads to get last words in?

Thanks Mhurron, again your proved my point.

Which one would that be? That you don't know what you're talking about? You can't let go? You don't know how shit works?

[cidbahamut]

Re: Are there rules against mods re-opening threads to get last words in?

Mhurron stop being an ass.

[Balfree]

Re: Are there rules against mods re-opening threads to get last words in?

Yes Mhurron, your point has been made and his question has been answered. Enough?

[Feba]

Re: Are there rules against mods re-opening threads to get last words in?

I thought you were leaving. What happened to Farewell?

And no, it's not an abuse of powers, and the thread wasn't reopened so a mod could reply. Mods can post in closed threads-- they're not reopened, they're just closed to the general public. Mods are allowed to state their opinion on matters not just as it relates to enforcing the rules, but as it relates to the conversation because they don't need an excuse to. They have the power to, and they've never abused it. And as you can see in the example Kailea cited, it allows moderators to close the discussion in a sane and remarkably fair way-- as long as a moderator cares enough to respond to the topic, they can state their side of an issue, which chances are aren't just their side. Think of it like dissenting Supreme Court justices-- they get to write their opinions anyway, because that's their position.

Maybe if we start seeing mods debate amongst themselves in closed threads, or if we start seeing Balfree going around closing threads just to say "LIME GREEN IS THE BEST COLOR END OF STORY GAME OVER", we can reexamine it. But there's absolutely no problem with it other than "Man, I wish I could do that sometimes". As far as I know, we've only ever had one mod abuse their power, and they were ousted pretty swiftly.

[Jei]

Re: Are there rules against mods re-opening threads to get last words in?

I don't think we have to "reopen" the thread to reply to them. The reply box is always here for us no matter if the thread is closed or openned.

[ShepardG]

Re: Are there rules against mods re-opening threads to get last words in?

Do I think the it's a bitch move to come into a closed thread, to bust a guys balls while they're still bruised from his original dumb question? Sure do. It is well within Icemages power/ right to post in closed threads? Sure is.

On the subject of Installing FFXI on a external hard drive to run on off of said drive? Yes it is possible.

Your going to have to write a seprate program that will alter the Registery on each machine that you attempt to play. and possibly erase it's handiwork when you close FFXI depending on what .DLL's it refrences/ what registery entries it alters.
This program would probably also need to be able to recognize what hardware each computer has running it, aswell as what OS it's interfacing with (XP,Vista,7,Etc.) and adjust itself accordingly.

Basically this 3rd party program would be "installing" FFXI, just not all the data files. It would need to recognize that it has all the data files in their proper place already, and also possibly account for any sort of on the spot updates.

It would be a fucking righteous program to build, but yeah it's possible.

Last I checked they have computers that can fucking simulate every single weather pattern on the face of the earth for thousands of years into the future. I'm pretty sure someone could come up with a way to install FFXI to an external hard drive.

[TheGrandMom]

Re: Are there rules against mods re-opening threads to get last words in?

To answer this question, no there is no rule, BUT it is frowned upon. If you have issues you should be sending a PM to the mod that you have the issue with and if that yields no results then you PM Taskmage who is an admin. One thing you do NOT do is to make threads to start drama on the forums. It only makes you look foolish and does not help your point.

So please use the PM system.

Thread Closed.

[Taskmage]

Re: Are there rules against mods re-opening threads to get last words in?

There are no hard and fast rules applying to our moderation staff. The moderators were given their power and retain it because I and the site owners trust them to use it judiciously. In general I consider it discourteous to address a member in a context where they have no ability to respond, such as a closed thread, but neither is it inappropriate for a moderator to leave a closing comment on locking a thread. If it had been Icemage rather than TGM who had done the locking we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.

So in summary, no Icemage did not break any rules, yes it is rather unusual, no I don't think it's a big deal and hauling out the old "abuse of power" line is making much ado about nothing.

---------- Post added at 03:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:57 PM ----------

HAH and in making that post I inadvertently did just what was being complained about. Sorry, I didn't realize.