Dennis Hall41 said:I start a thread, some pseudo-cockney groover vomits all over the topic without leaving a single actual comment—which deserves a ban, though I don't think he got one—and then (I highly doubt it, but still) reports him to the mods for being redundant (he didn't seem redundant to me), so they shut it down...
Look, I didn't lock that thread, nor did I get any email report about it, but regardless
it might have been more diplomatic—and frankly, a better solution—to give the OP a warning for breaking subforum rules (30 points) while giving the guy who vomited spam a penalty for spamming (10 points)
As for the thread itself, given how it was set up (just a list of songs, no links, no descriptions, nothing), it’s hard to see it resulting in anything other than just a list. My experience has shown that repeatedly...
I believe that was the moderator's assessment when they closed it (which aligns with my own view)
The OP actually has the power to decide how to make his thread constructive and compliant with the rules. For instance, look at this topic
where guidelines are established—like forbidding one-sentence posts or lists, requiring a link or a brief description of the song/band to encourage discussion, etc. If those are set, the mod will follow them
All those other listing threads that exist because they were opened before the rules were implemented are still hanging around, mostly populated by people who aren't regular visitors to the subforum. If we started closing those too, I suspect there would be plenty of complaints—those are the nuances > is talking about. The rules were made to prune those types of threads and boost the quality of the first kind
Of course, you can't please everyone
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Regarding the Pitchfork vs Rolling Stone thread, it was actually ranked in the top 10 most popular threads on American forums. It's become such a cult classic that people even tried to
rip it off in neighboring countries. I think we should strive to keep it exactly as it is😬
