Well it was good while it lasted. I told you one of the mods would close it eventually.

hehe

Ok, I was in denial when I first posted, then I felt shock. Now I feel grief!
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
PLEASE OPEN IT. PLEASE!
:bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:
It was the lounge within the lounge, and I will miss it so much.
:bawling: :bawling: :bawling:

Originally posted by Rewdog
Well it was good while it lasted. I told you one of the mods would close it eventually.

I thought it wasn't cool to close that thread. Nothing bad was going on there and it was all harmless fun. :rolleyes:

But that's just my opinion...:cartman:

Yeah, what was xstrike thinking?
Now these guys are going to be out on the internet causing who-know-what kind of trouble, instead of inside this nice, friendly thread. You know, kids just aren't what they used to be these days.

I agree.
It was a lounge within a lounge.
Somewhere to voice your opinion about anything.
Sometimes it was stupid, sometimes it was fun, and sometimes it was even interesting.
I hate to see it go.

Too bad.:rolleyes:

Well, look at the bright side...


...we have set a new record.

884 posts

Woo Hoo!!! :D

Of course, the mods should realize that now they have closed that thread, all the garbage which isn't going there is going to be spread across the entire forum...

I feel heartbroken. Is xtstrike even a mod? I was like who on earth is this chicken wannabe. Then I found out he is one. I mean he could of let the honers to the chicken...

This guy is obviously a nothing, a nobody, a peion, a jabroni.

Originally posted by netsolutions
This guy is obviously a nothing, a nobody, a peion, a jabroni. uh . . . I personally know people that have been banned for saying less in private. :rolleyes:

I would suggest that, if you don't agree with moderation, to contact them off board.

Just be careful what you say off board too.

This is actually outlined in the forum guidelines (has been since as long as I can remember). Shouldn't be such a shocker to people, but it is for some odd reason...

We take the "be polite" rule VERY seriously! We do not tolerate ANY rudeness. Any member who is intentionally unpleasant or disruptive will receive one warning, and will be permanently banned from WebHostingTalk after a second offense.

Whats all knowing wise chicken think of the thread being closed? :confused:
(curious but I bet I come across as annoying lol ) :)

Whats all knowing wise chicken think of the thread being closed?
Careful, Chicken. Stand in solidarity now with Xstrike or you will regret it later. It's just like when my four year old tries to pit me and mommy against each other. ;) ;) ;)

Well, the chicken has to run out for a staff holiday party, and won't be around until tomorrow sometime. If you have a concern, I'd email xtsrike directly and ask for the thread to be reopened. Sorry, I just had about 5 minutes and now just burnt all of the red folders (cookies) on the forum (DOH!).

Must run...

*tells self, he will not xerox any body parts this year*

That thread was nothing but waist of Matt's bandwidth.

Pointless threads should be closed.

I will miss the thread. It will be known as the great thread in WHT.

Originally posted by Bogdan
That thread was nothing but waist of Matt's bandwidth.

Pointless threads should be closed.
I don't agree with that. I mean what defines a pointless thread. I could say that threads saying Merry Christmas and threads saying jokes and stuff are pointless threads. After all they don't provide you with anymore knowledge or anything. Just my two cents.

A pointless thread is a thread with no meaning to it, nor has a subject to discuss. What is thread with 'post if viewed' going to accomplish?

Originally posted by Bogdan
A pointless thread is a thread with no meaning to it, nor has a subject to discuss. What is thread with 'post if viewed' going to accomplish?

Let's just get rid of the entire WH Lounge forum then, since 80% of discussions here are "pointless". :rolleyes:

Not all things have to have a "point" for it to be discussed. People are here for fun and to socialize with each other. I mean just look at all the negative reactions closing that thread has already drawn.

A certain mod around here is going to be getting a very angry message from me...

Originally posted by appletreats
A certain mod around here is going to be getting a very angry message from me... uh-oh . . . .


UH - OH :eek:



:D

damn people i didnt know you had such feelings for the thread, hehe

i just seen it getting a little HUGE - id seen people reply and it went pretty much the same as the other threads that you "must reply to" where they just fizzle out, but a few people on the board, who will remain anonymous :) were abusing it and posting almost hourly into the thread, if i were to go in and take all the duplicates out of the thread i would reopen it, but de-duplicating over 800 posts would be as bad as wax hair removal treatment to the genitals :rolleyes:

It was getting rather big... and it did take up some space. Did anyone actually read through the whole thing?

It never occured to anybody to just start another one ;)

Originally posted by JustinK
It was getting rather big... and it did take up some space. Did anyone actually read through the whole thing?

yeah... the moderators !!!!!!!! all god damn 800+ posts, grrrrr

hehe

I created another thread and he closed it. I created yet another one and he deleted them both. I'm not liking this xtstrike guy. Never say much of him until now and he's really getting on my nerves. Much more and he'll be on my bad side and you don't want to be on my bad side.

I read the thread.

Actually, you created two with the same subject. :cool:

That's because the first one got closed

Watch out netsolutions or your gonna get STRUCk!

Ok, for those that have their reservations on why the thread was closed (and ill explain publicly)

I have spent a few minutes tallying the content of the thread with over 800 posts and found the following when i reached page 8 of the thread:

one web x 47
Rewdog x 41
netsolutions x 44

Total 132

should i go on ? lets just say each of these people has posted almost 100 times to the ONE thread, maybe this could be termed SPAM nothing else will be done but hopefuly common sense will prevail :)

Cheers

-XT

Originally posted by xtstrike
Ok, for those that have their reservations on why the thread was closed (and ill explain publicly)

I have spent a few minutes tallying the content of the thread with over 800 posts and found the following when i reached page 8 of the thread:

one web x 47
Rewdog x 41
netsolutions x 44

Total 132

should i go on ? lets just say each of these people has posted almost 100 times to the ONE thread, maybe this could be termed SPAM nothing else will be done but hopefuly common sense will prevail :)

Cheers

-XT


It's not spam. Many of us loved that thread. Reading ridiculous replies and funny jokes. There are tons of other chit chat forums out there and I've not seen one closed just for this reason yet.

I think he should close this one too. When it started I thought it was gonna be a funny little diatribe. Now it looks like it's getting personal, because some people have a real problem distinguishing a message board from reality.

Or maybe not.:confused: :confused: :confused:

I have nothing to say. All I know is that I thought this was the lounge.

Ya I know what you mean. I mean the lounge is just talk. Weather we split our conversations into like dozens of threads or have it all in one big thread what is the difference?

I miss the thread.


Chris

Me too :( Maybe for Christmas xtstrike will re-open it for us :)

It was the best thread ever. I can't believe that you would close it. That's just wrong.

appletreats.. your sig is over the 4 line limit. you should try to make it comply with the forum rules :)

It fits in four lines for me. Or maybe he fixed it already...hmmm...

Not for me. I'm only at 1024x768.

So am I

Im on 1024x768 and its on 4 lines

Umm.....lets get back to the subject that this thread is about....I want to resolve this issue with xtstrike :)

email him.

so netsolutions whats up with your site?

I've PMed him so hopefully he will answer. My site will HOPEFULLY be up by Saturday morning :)

I have no problem xtstrike with you decreasing my post count by 41, or 400 if that will make you feel better about opening up that thread. We come here to talk, and went there for a chat on everything that there wasn't a point in just opening up a new thread to express our opinions. Look at my fricken title.

I'm beginning to think less of this WHT forum now. :(


Originally posted by xtstrike
yeah... the moderators !!!!!!!! all god damn 800+ posts, grrrrr

hehe

xtstrike, if you really can't stand reading the threads in this forum then maybe I can help you be the moderator? I really wouldn't mind because I have a lot of time on my hands and I love hanging out here. :)

if the thread was struck only because it annoyed a MOD, and for no other reason as as far as I could see it was harmless empty fluff, then why are other posts that the MODS have locked still on the board. Obviously they are locked for a reason, why not just delete them???? It makes no sense to me, and if a thread gets yanked for so little then one has to wonder at what rules the MODS work under, it also makes me wonder about this board. the reasons that xstrike gave don't make sense.

Ok, for those that have their reservations on why the thread was closed (and ill explain publicly)

I have spent a few minutes tallying the content of the thread with over 800 posts and found the following when i reached page 8 of the thread:

one web x 47
Rewdog x 41
netsolutions x 44

Total 132

should i go on ? lets just say each of these people has posted almost 100 times to the ONE thread, maybe this could be termed SPAM nothing else will be done but hopefuly common sense will prevai

so what this is that lounge

Forum for general conversation, share interests, have a laugh or discuss anything not related to above or below forums.

I wonder who moderates the MODS?

Originally posted by aleavens
I wonder who moderates the MODS?


Very good point.:(

Originally posted by ProSam



Very good point.:(
Extremely good point and I would like to hear an answer. xtstrike said that me, rewdog and one_web all had like 40 posts in that thread and that we were trying to increase our post count. Fair enought but the three of us all have at least 800+ posts so 40 something wasn't a big deal to that matter and wasn't a big deal to us. We were just trying to have some fun!

At no time did the post count interested me. If you want you can bring down my post count to zero if you want. there was nothing wrong with that thread.

It is absolutely unacceptable to close a thread of as high quality as the "must reply" one. I believe that it is time to seriously consider revoking xtstrike's moderation privelages.
:bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:

I don't think it was so much the post count. When xtstrike emailed me back he called it spam. How the hell was that thread spam? :confused:

The meaning of :spam: :

Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it's unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup.

How is what we were doing SPAM?

Let me tell you one thing. People are using the term "SPAM" too freely no a days

"Hi buddy, how you doing?"

STOP SPAMING ME!!!!!!!!!!

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

...junk newsgroup postings...

I guess he called our thread junk. Now I thought there was a rule against this... um let me see

We take the "be polite" rule VERY seriously! We do not tolerate ANY rudeness. Any member who is intentionally unpleasant or disruptive will receive one warning, and will be permanently banned from WebHostingTalk after a second offense.

That was not polite for him to call a thread that people liked junk. As the thread starter I feel very offended by this and think that some action should be taken against this mod whose job is to be an example for the rest of the members.

Originally posted by one_web
That was not polite for him to call a thread that people liked junk. As the thread starter I feel very offended by this and think that some action should be taken against this mod whose job is to be an example for the rest of the members.
I agree

Originally posted by one_web


I guess he called our thread junk. Now I thought there was a rule against this... um let me see

We take the "be polite" rule VERY seriously! We do not tolerate ANY rudeness. Any member who is intentionally unpleasant or disruptive will receive one warning, and will be permanently banned from WebHostingTalk after a second offense.

That was not polite for him to call a thread that people liked junk. As the thread starter I feel very offended by this and think that some action should be taken against this mod whose job is to be an example for the rest of the members.
Me too

Hi, I have to reply just to calm things down.

Remember all of this you are arguing about is the closure of ONE thread that wasnt actually anything to do with web hosting. please just look at what you are getting irate about in perspective.

The only people getting annoyed here are the few people that posted bucket loads of times to the thread with meaningless messages.

Its not just the aspect of reading through it all, or any kind of "spam" aspect, its also because the thread was "CRAP", when I first looked at the thread I thought as many other mods and people did, you look at it, reply and your go is over, people went over the top and this huge thread kept bouncing back to the top of the board because of a few members that made sure it stayed at the top.

Let me tell you now, we have a split, you people want the thread open because you want to continue to blast it with meaningless posts, I also have on the other side a bunch of people that have PM'ed me saying the closure was a good choice, they messaged me AFTER the thread was closed.

Im not making you unhappy about WHT, im purely stating a fact that this board is about Web Hosting and general conversation in the "Lounge" your thread wasnt even "general conversation" because general conversation has a meaning to it.

Anyone that still has a problem can message me or the other mods in private, request my ICQ number from me in private if you feel it that desperate to talk about it.

Cheers

-XT

THE LOUNGE IS ABOUT ANYTHING!!!!!!! THE KEYWORD THERE BEING ANYTHING!!!! And you said that only a few people who were blasting the thread are complaining? That's so not true. Look at some of the posts. Some people are complaining who only posted there like once or twice. There are dozens of complaints and your reply is escaping the arguments that the others brought up.

Anyone that still has a problem can message me or the other mods in private, request my ICQ number from me in private if you feel it that desperate to talk about it.

We were talking about this amongst ourselves. You are the one that jumped into the conversation.

CLOSED - REPLY PRIVATELY AS I POLITELY ASKED.

IM NOT GOING TO ARGUE OVER THE MOST POINTLESS THREAD I HAVE EVER CONTENDED WITH - OPEN ANOTHER THREAD ON THIS AND IT WILL BE DELETED.

REPLY PRIVATELY OR REQUEST MY TELEPHONE NUMBER/ICQ NUMBER AND WE CAN TALK.