[Zero-thustra]

I asked Demonhood about locking a seemingly harmless (albeit patently frivolous) thread on the Lounge.

I was informed that frivolity is lockable.

I can certainly understand why that is the case, but I'm still a bit fuzzy on the subjective nature of measuring frivolity to determine what gets locked. Please bear with me.

Is a thread of 6-7 silly posts really more frivolous than the 5-6 page monsters dedicated to counting or word association? Even the Jarvis (damn bill gates for his rugged whatnot) threads are wholly frivolous, aren't they?

When the Lounge gets serious and political threads multiply, suddenly it's not a fun place and we need to move politics out.

Then when some of us decide to embrace more silliness (even if it's at the expence of a new policy concerning post counts), THAT becomes a problem.

I'm just trying to determine the happy medium, that's all.

Should we assume that the Lounge just becoming a liability in terms of bandwidth/usage/moderating and therefore some cracking down is in order?

[Demonhood]

of course there needs to be a certain amount of frivolity in the lounge, but i've always cracked down on pointless threads. this isn't something new.

i close the word association and counting threads as well. sometimes the silly stuff is a distraction. sometimes it just irritates me. there's no real fine line.

the general rule i follow is this: if it doesn't add anything to the forum, i lock it. a definition open to interpretation, but that's why we have people mod/admin these forums and not a perl script.

[thunderous_funker]

Fair enough. I trust your judgement. In fact, this might be the first time I've really questioned it. Perhaps it's just wounded pride that I was the victim in this case

At any rate, I screwed by Zeroist mystique by posting in here under that name, thereby advancing to 1 solitary, un-Zeroist post

Carry on, you guys do a helluva job.