Quote Originally Posted by BarryL
The thread was locked only because it was critical of you. There have been lots of heated discussions on this board and no threads were locked. And now cognitive dissonance has crept in and you're defending the irrational. You have to maintain law and order, or the whole place will go to hell? Oh, please. Spare us.
As you can see Barry, I am taking alot heat on here, I have neither locked, nor closed this thread. It is okay to be critical with me, but it doesn't really change the fact that movie reviews belong in the favorite movie section. It is just that simple, and not irrational at all. Maybe there was alot of heated discussions on this board, if there were no personal attacks, or off topic stuff, it would have been left alone. Remember, you have only had moderators for about three months. Barry, at one time this place was hell.

And what happened to my post? Are you saying that you didn't remove it? It was very conciliatory and I kept my sarcasm to the absolute minimal.
I haven't removed any posts, a neither has any other moderator. They are all there, and there is no record of any post removed.

I know that you think you know best about how everybody should act, but here's my advice to you: let people post and enjoy themselves. Is it so bad if one or two threads get posted "in the wrong place"? (Like this is the Library of Congress or something.) I think there's a little button that allows us to register complaints.
I have stated my position as moderator in the other posts. This board is not free from moderation. It is part of a website at large, that is moderated by several moderators. I am at a loss at understand why all of the other boards don't complain about moderation, but this one does. The same things happen there that happen here.


Until the bell rings, why not assume that everything is going to plan. There's nothing wrong with a little bit of heat and discussion about right and wrong, good and bad, prudent and imprudent. At least not amongst the regular posters on this board.
Yes, but do you have any idea how a newbie would feel walking into all of these flying bullets. When someone posts off topic, everything is not going to plan amoung site administrators. He would like the place organized and orderly, or I wouldn't have moved the post. This website has rules, and they apply to ALL of the forums in it.

Given excellent explanations of why people are peeved of with your actions by a number of posters, perhaps you should re-read them, and then stop assuming that everyone else is so irrational and your view of how things will be after you have your way with everybody is the only right way to go.
I have read all of them. However, the rules as explain to me by the site administrator are clear. No personal attacks(that has already been violated with no response by me), keep things clean, organized(as I tried to do here), and don't be hackled by dissent(as I am not)

This isn't that difficult. Re-Imagine, as Tom Peters implores in his latest book. The world is messy. Learn to live with it. Your customers/users don't seem to have a problem with it, so why are you arguing with them that they are wrong and you are right.
Tom Peters book is irrelevant in this issue, because the site administrators want different things than Tom Peters does. I am at a loss as to why you were so cool earlier, and so angry now. I didn't, and no other moderator has moved, deleted, or closed anything. I did not delete the thread where you guys basically barbeque'd me, I haven't closed or deleted a thing here(where you guys are hammering me again). Why the 180 degree turn?