I'd rather have it be unlocked, personally. To have six pages of OT arbitrarily locked at this point seems useless, but apparently Dorkman felt strongly about it.

Well, here's what happened. I mistakenly half-thought the conversation was taking place in the suggest a movie thread, and because the conversation was so divisive and really going on, I thought I'd break my "no movie threads until the episode comes out" rule and move the conversation there, and have as much of our discussion of 300 be in that thread.

Turns out, the conversation was actually happening in the "upcoming episode" thread, and was pretty much where it should have been. (Although I still like that thread more for socializing and less for big conversations about upcoming movies, for the above reason - the conversation all being in one place is easier on the mind.)

Dorkman tapped my brain and reminded me it was the right thread for that conversation (leaving only my "wah, I want the conversation in one thread" feeling) but by that point the other thread was goin', so I left it. He continued to rail on his point, this brings us to the present.

Greg's got jokes.

And I'm the jerk who sits in the back of the class, has already read the textbook, and sarcastically throws barbs at the teacher because he can, because he's getting too good of grades to be yelled at.

No, what happened was, you decided you needed to stop a conversation for no good reason and move it someplace else.

You then gave your reason -- that you didn't want conversation taking place in that thread at all. So far, fair enough, although why you allowed six weeks of conversation to take place, if that's the case, is beyond me. But then instead of locking the thread to prevent conversation you claim you didn't want, you decided to start another, actually off-topic conversation, and that when we have an entire off-topic forum for the purpose.

To put on your bold red mod voice to tell everyone to get back on topic, even though it was on topic, and then immediately be the one to yank the thread way more off-topic than it ever was, instead of just letting conversation flow, strikes me as totally capricious, and capricious, pointless redirection and/or stifling of conversation is not the way you build a social community.

Uh, Try reading the last bit of the thread again. I agree with you. Teague is the one who decided that wasn't the "place to just chat and discuss." He can reopen it if he wants, but he said he didn't want any conversation taking place there.

I insisted you should because you said you didn't want conversation to take place about upcoming movies in that thread. You tried to dodge around your mistake and be cute by starting a "breakfast foods" conversation, instead of just letting the thread be what it would be.

Either a) it's the thread to discuss the upcoming release when it's announced but before it's released, or b) it's just meant to be an announcement and discussion takes place elsewhere.

If it's b), then it should have been locked six weeks ago. If it's a), then fine, let's re-open it and allow the conversation to be about the upcoming films instead of just trying to alter it on a whim.

You said you wanted things on-topic, torpedoed the topic, and then tried to create an off-topic. The problem is a complete lack of coherency in how exactly you expect the posters to behave.

Why talk about breakfast foods in a thread that is not on that topic, when the whole reason this happened was because you got confused and wanted to keep the thread on its stated topic? Why not just let the thread alone until the next release announcement and the conversation is ready to move to that?

All I'm saying: if you're going to want to get modly and keep threads more or less on-topic -- which I agree with -- the remedy when you make a mistake is not to flail over to the other extreme and drag it completely off-topic.

So...uh, how about that new Star Trek movie, fellas?

You have now permanently put me on Dorkman's side. For everything, about everything.

You mean me and Brian or me and Mike?

I'm down for either, big boys.

That is the most genius filter ever.