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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I would like to hear the Doc way in on this, but it seems to me that when the Asylum started up, there were no conditions that would cause a thread to be locked. The Doc wants this to be an open place where people can feel free to express ideas without fear of having someone come along and shut the thread down because someone or other took offense. I still can't think of any situations when I think a thread should be locked. Just for example, assume that two people in the Asylum start trading insults and just can't keep their disagreement off line. What harm are they doing to the rest of the Asylum? It seems to me that everyone else will go to other disucssions and talk about Photoshop or HTML or Javascript, or Philosophy, etc. Basically these two will be left on their own to hash out their differences in an adult or immature fashion as they want. If however these same to people keep barging in on other threads, disrupting the conversation and side tracking other discussions, maybe it's time to consider ristricting their access to the Asylum (another practice the Doc was definitly against). I'm not suggesting banning the people. Maybe it would be possible to make a Playpen forum that would be the only place they could post for a while until they learn to play nice with others. As far as locking threads, I can't think of any reason to lock one. When we lock a thread, we are punishing everyone because a few can't behave themselves. I think we should find a different way to deal with ptoblems than by locking threads. . -- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful. [url=http://www.hyperbole-software.com/] [img]http://www.hyperbole-software.com/ozone/hyperbole-88x33.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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