Thread Locking (Makes no sense)

[yazdi]

Re: Thread Locking (Makes no sense)

@Spock

http://www.paklinks.com/gs/pakistan-affairs/481119-condemn-killing-of-3-persons-by-usa-consulate-employee.html

It’s pretty obvious the guy made wrote an editorial style letter, wrote his name in the end taking credit for his work. What’s wrong with that?

Where in the rules does it say every thread must have a working URL? What if you want to discuss something carved out of your own imagination or your own feelings about a topic? Find a URL for that too?

Just looks like the content matter wasn’t jibing with the political views of the moderators, because I see tonnes of threads floating without links, even ones from news sites which should be cited.

Please refer to the the rule number one from the “rules and regulations” thread:
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/pakistan-affairs/185504-forum-guidelines-rules-and-regulations.html
It states:
**1. All articles posted must include a working URL link and the person posting these should also include their own comments and state what they wish to be discussed, especially in posts that start a new thread. Any posts without these requirements will be removed. **

Now there are already 3/4 threads running in the forum on the same topic. If the poster wanted to condemn the Americans he could have easily used one of the existing threads on the topic. There are several people condemning the American in these threads and none of the moderators have shown any problem with this as long as the language is decent and at par with the requirement of the forum. Similarly there are posters like mercenary2k who are condemning Pakistanis on the topic. Again none of the moderators have shown any discomfort with that. After all forum is for discussion and there are several opinions on a subject. However if you want to open a new thread there is a certain way of doing it. The thread opener could have used the opening lines as his take on the subject and support it with some fresh news from a worthy source to show why Americans should be condemned. Yes you are right we sometime ignore the URL requirement where we feel the topic is an interesting one for forum where we must have some discussion. It should not have the same topic as one of the existing threads as several threads with same discussion become very boring for forum users.

Please be assured your present moderator team does not have any biases when we moderate. Please do trust your moderators who are working hard to keep the quality of the forum at a high level. If we allow such threads to continue believe me your forum will look like a very childish forum. Such threads are not removed but locked to educate new posters about general etiquettes of posting/opening new threads.

BTW in this particular case my views are not very different from the thread opener. I have myself just opened a new thread today criticizing Americans in this matter:

http://www.paklinks.com/gs/pakistan-affairs/481857-us-postpones-bilateral-contact-until-davis-is-freed.html

Although I am not required to defend my actions as a moderator, I have posted this link just to show how wrong are you with your allegation that the opinion expressed by the said poster clash with the political views of moderator. This is just to prove that we do not moderate according to our political biases, but the target is to maintain a high quality…!!!

P.S. If you have any further question I am always there to clarify. Please do take note that i also make mistakes and if you ever point out these mistakes I will be the first one to acknowledge. However in this case I consider it a baseless accusation that the moderation was done according to the political views of the moderators…