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What Causes a Thread to become locked?


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I just had a good picture thread locked and no information was sent as to why.

Does anyone know?

Seems like if you were to moderate someone you would tell them why.

Otherwise how can you know what you did wrong?

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Are you referring to this one? http://gtaforums.com/topic/644291-gta-chaoscarnage-brutality-gore-photos-here/

 

I can't speak for the staff member who locked it to say for definite, but I'm guessing it was because it was last posted in a week ago and you bumped it with "..." - this doesn't add any content and is essentially spam, and generally gets your topic locked. It could also be because we have 3 topics already for Snapmatic photos; 2 in GTA Online section and 1 in GTA V section.

 

I'll leave it as it is for now to see whether the staff member who closed it replies.

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Well, it was an effort just to bump the thread. And I haven't been able to post any pictures or basically do any copy/paste function for a while in ANY thread; this includes quoting others. So yes it was an effort to increase traffic again and I hardly think that counts as spam.

And as far as there already being Snapmatic Photo threads, they are of different subject matter.

I even make reference to this in my opening statement within the first few lines.

That would be like saying there can only be one thread discussing cars, or one thread talking boats.

There are different Photo Thread for DIFFERENT subject matter.

 

And regardless it seems bad form to lock a thread with out at least informing the original poster as to why.

 

To possible moderators, please unlock the thread. It's good an been relatively active. It would be more-so if I could post pictures again.

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There's a rule against double posting and I guess the moderator wanted to enforce it by locking your topic. You can always edit your post.

 

In some cases double posting won't be minded (if it's a contributive post) although vague posts like "..." don't contribute to anything and will probably (seems to be the case) end up with the topic being locked.

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aka geobst

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We have pinned "snapmatic" threads in both GTAV and GTA:O sections. I did allow one un-pinned thread for "professional" pics to made in the GTAV section.

 

We don't need "theme" pic threads popping up over both sections. I don't know who locked your topic, but I would have since it can go in either of our pinned threads.

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Thanks for cooperating with us while we restructure things a bit, guys. We try to leave a quick note, but if you are concerned about why a topic is locked, send one of us a PM. We're not trying to censor anyone or oppress anyone, just trying to make things a little more efficient so that the good threads don't have to be bumped or sought out.

 

Send a quick PM to your friendly neighborhood ledbys and get the ball rolling from there.

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