Duh? Where'd the xxxx thread go?

See DR ///AMG's sticky post:

Dear Sr. "Da ModFuhrer"

You'll not tolerate new posts asking where old threads have gone?

Well, aren't we strict with the riffraff?

Point - there are folks who are rude, inconsiderate, and redundant, and don't follow recommended procedures.

Point - there are also lots of folks interested in their mercedes and yours, who may not be particularly sophisticated in using all the available features (eg searching) available to listers on the site.

A "where's the thread" post can be politely answered once or twice, then from inactivity simply drops out of sight (site?). Right?

Why the fuss?



DR ///AMG
Moderator/Da ModFather

Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Alon's floor.
Posts: 943
Effective immediately. READ NOW.
Moderators will NOT tolerate any threads that follow the lines of "Hey, where did the _______ thread go?"

If the thread is gone it could be for a few reasons:

1) A moderator deleted it.
2) A moderator moved it to the dead threads area
3) The original poster deleted it.

All three actions do NOT have to be questioned. Simply respect the judgement of these persons, and let it go.

And IF a thread was moved to a different forum by a moderator, it would still be listed on the original forum, with an arrow next to it, indicating a move.

Once again, do NOT start useless threads asking where a thread has gone.

Failure to do so will result in a warning. Further violations may result in banning of your account.

Dr. ///AMG
Moderator.

[AustinsCE]

Are you trying to get banned?

Actually, I stumbled into this from the diesel thread, doing a search on Holson Adi's postings - I was interested in his 300CD and whether he'd finally sold it. Really liked it, but couldn't see 3 300 's and a Subaru in one driveway with one driver.

I like the idea of the "general" group as a way of keeping irrelevant discussion out of the technical threads. (Ever check out the Motley Fool's boards? They're a mess, and need a moderator to clean out the tripe.)

In the general discussion, I can see the need of a moderator to keep down the flame wars, etc. (perhaps)

But I saw this sticky post at the top, and after my reply, the whole series....

I haven't seen any of the actions of the moderators that y'all are attacking, what they've consigned to the garbage heap, or whatever. Perhaps they are all appropriate. But the language of the sticky posts I find appalling. My "Sr. DaModFuhrer" was tongue in cheek. But after reading those posts, I'm left without words, though the adjectives "pedantic" and "overbearing" come to mind.

The folks that post here are a voluntary association. You don't take on the task of moderating a discussion in such a group without expecting discussion of your decisions. I wouldn't think the task would be appropriate for someone overly sensitive, and worse yet for someone with an anal retentive personality.

To the moderators, I suggest you review the admonitions in your postings with an ear to how they must sound to normal folks in our society, and how they reflect on yourselves.

One signs himself "le docteur." The fanciful diagnoses "recto-cranial inversion" and "cephalic impaction of the rectum" come to mind.

[The Godfather]

Banned.