Should the Alanland thread be unlocked?

[Max Rockatansky]

15-15.

Now that the fell beast MMM has largely been muzzled

The what

The great destroyer of threads.   

[Halian]

15-15.

Now that the fell beast MMM has largely been muzzled

The what

The great destroyer of threads.

[stares blankly]

[Max Rockatansky]

15-15.

Now that the fell beast MMM has largely been muzzled

The what

The great destroyer of threads.

[stares blankly]

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=16214

[Halian]

15-15.

Now that the fell beast MMM has largely been muzzled

The what

The great destroyer of threads.

[stares blankly]

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=16214

[JoePCool14]

Now that the fell beast MMM has largely been muzzled is there is a need to resurrect the grand legacy of the Alan?

Did I miss something? Did MMM get banned?

[Max Rockatansky]

Now that the fell beast MMM has largely been muzzled is there is a need to resurrect the grand legacy of the Alan?

Did I miss something? Did MMM get banned?

No, the threads he hijacked were nuked from orbit and locked.  The effect seems to have slowed his zest for ruination of the forum for the time being.

[LilianaUwU]

Alanland should both be locked and unlocked.

[Scott5114]

Alanland should both be locked and unlocked.

Happily, it has been.

[jeffandnicole]

The voting is so close because it's impossible for goats to press the little radio button to vote. Instead they just wind up eating their computing device.

[Max Rockatansky]

Now that the fell beast MMM has largely been muzzled is there is a need to resurrect the grand legacy of the Alan?

Did I miss something? Did MMM get banned?

No, the threads he hijacked were nuked from orbit and locked.  The effect seems to have slowed his zest for ruination of the forum for the time being.

No, I just started running out of new ideas. I wasn't gonna start spamming just to get to 1000 posts. Posting my plans visually really helped to condense my ideas into concise posts. My MMM thread is still going strong, and I did vote to unlock here if you're interested.

Managing to be responsible for four locked threads on the Fictional Board is quite the feet.

[Scott5114]

Actually it was the people deliberately trolling with politics that got my Penn Turnpike thread locked...

No it wasn't.

[Alps]

should this thread be locked

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

should this thread be locked

yes.

[Max Rockatansky]

should this thread be locked

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure...

[JoePCool14]

should this thread be locked

We're gonna need another thread to discuss that.

[MultiMillionMiler]

Maybe I could be promoted to a moderator and help decide these things? I think I could be a very fair and impartial judge on which threads need locking or not?

[kphoger]

I actually haven't read most of that thread either.

And that's part of the problem.

Maybe I should just run for the Alanland Senate instead.

That's not a thing.  Which you would have known...

Sarcasm is really difficult to detect in print format...

Maybe I could be promoted to a moderator and help decide these things? I think I could be a very fair and impartial judge on which threads need locking or not?

I retract my previous statement.

[Max Rockatansky]

Maybe I could be promoted to a moderator and help decide these things? I think I could be a very fair and impartial judge on which threads need locking or not?

Ummm...can we have those nukes now please?

[Halian]

Maybe I could be promoted to a moderator and help decide these things? I think I could be a very fair and impartial judge on which threads need locking or not?

lol. lmao

[jmacswimmer]

Maybe I could be promoted to a moderator and help decide these things? I think I could be a very fair and impartial judge on which threads need locking or not?

This should be pinned at the top of the "Favorite Forum Quotes" thread.

[Roadgeekteen]

should this thread be locked

No

[MultiMillionMiler]

should this thread be locked

No

Locking threads doesn't seem to solve anything in general on any forum because all it leads to is people creating more threads to talk about the locked ones and users involved, usually even more aggressively/at a higher frequency than the original problem thread. Same with blocking, all that does is lead to dozens of users creating "oh my God I'm so sorry please unblock me" threads, and then searching out for the posts of people who blocked you just so you can reply to something unrelated to the person who blocked you somewhere else. Then, in some forums, you have threads with voting polls to see if another thread should be locked/unlocked..I'm not supporting or complaining I'm just pointing out the fractal property of the internet.

[kphoger]

Locking threads doesn't seem to solve anything in general ...

It has had good effects on this forum for years.

[hotdogPi]

I am generally against locking threads by non-troll users, other than technical locks from moving a thread from one board to another. "Threads you'll never see on aaroads.com" being one major offender, which is why the "aaroads.com in 1964/2014" threads and the "changing one letter of a thread title" exist to replace them.

If a thread goes off the rails, delete the last few pages and continue where you left off, unless the derailment is off-topic but not rule-breaking and it's a thread that can't be permanently derailed (e.g. generic state threads, de facto userspace threads), in which case leave it there and someone will post the next on topic post when the time comes.

Worst of road signs should also not have been locked; my decision would have been to rename to "Bad road signs" and for the new-at-the-time worst of the worst thread to house the truly bad ones.

The two where locking was the correct decision were Alanland and the really long DST thread in whichever year it was.

That's what happened to the Penn Turnpike thread, last few pages were deleted, but it was also locked. And I didn't even take part in the Canadian Politics Discussion that ran off the rails for 2 pages later.

My decision would have been to delete the posts that were deleted and to keep the thread open from where it left off.

[MultiMillionMiler]

I am generally against locking threads by non-troll users, other than technical locks from moving a thread from one board to another. "Threads you'll never see on aaroads.com" being one major offender, which is why the "aaroads.com in 1964/2014" threads and the "changing one letter of a thread title" exist to replace them. If a thread goes off the rails, delete the last few pages and continue where you left off. Worst of road signs should also not have been locked; my decision would have been to rename to "Bad road signs" and for the new-at-the-time worst of the worst thread to house the truly bad ones.

The two where locking was the correct decision were Alanland and the really long DST thread in whichever year it was.

That's what happened to the Penn Turnpike thread, last few pages were deleted, but it was also locked. And I didn't even take part in the Canadian Politics Discussion that ran off the rails for 2 pages later.