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Locking topics
OP - February 06, 2010, 07:16 AM

I appreciate the forum's general rules and I think the moderators have the right to close some threads. However I don't see a reason to lock these 2 topics:

http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=4022.0
http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=8503.0

Sure, they could've dragged on for ages but it's not a good reason in my humble opinion.
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Re: Locking topics
Reply #1 - February 06, 2010, 07:30 AM

Both of those were locked because they turned into slanging matches, not because they would have dragged on. A thread can drag on forever without being locked for all we care, as long as you're not all at each other's throats. Locking the thread is a way to let everyone cool down, and its not necessarily permanent.

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Re: Locking topics
Reply #2 - February 06, 2010, 07:35 AM

Wot Cheetah said.

Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West.
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Re: Locking topics
Reply #3 - February 06, 2010, 07:04 PM

Quote from: Cheetah on February 06, 2010, 07:30 AM
Both of those were locked because they turned into slanging matches, not because they would have dragged on. A thread can drag on forever without being locked for all we care, as long as you're not all at each other's throats. Locking the thread is a way to let everyone cool down, and its not necessarily permanent.

OK

Look, I know the incest thread was getting tediously repetitive but there wasn't any offensive remarks. I think we should agree to disagree.

Anyway, thank you guys for the awesome work you do on this forum
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