I was talking about threads that are deliberately hijacked like the "females everywhere " thread. Whether the OP was right or wrong in his assessment isn't the point. He wasn't trolling or deliberately baiting anyone, yet people were pretty obviously trying to get the thread locked from the very beginning, posting memes, generalizing insults aimed at "straight white males" and later, recipes.Which is why there's all the surprise that it stayed open for so long.
Hmm... on that one I'd have to disagree. His opening post was about how having two women in a position of power at the beginning of the game was overwhelming because that's too many women, and unrealistic because women in positions of power was uncommon. Within a page or two, as I recall, he had compounded that by announcing that he was "serious," and that women were naturally unsuited to positions of power, so how could anyone argue otherwise.
If he wasn't trolling, and he genuinely believed what he was saying... I somehow won't lose any sleep over his thread getting hijacked, either way. He's probably not a good example. Plus, the people posting in there, for the most part, didn't want the thread locked, because they were having fun. Granted, some of that fun came from the pride of having subverted the premise of the thread by having the female BSN members in a giant free-for-all, but it was a jovial, social conversation, and I don't recall anyone directing hostility at the OP (past the light-hearted sarcasm and mocking of the first few pages.)
I didn't participate in that thread much beyond a brief side-eye at the OP on the first page, so I don't have a personal stake in any of it. I thought it was silly, but I certainly didn't find it represented any kind of serious issue with what happens on BSN.
It isn't so much threads being locked that bothers me, (some are clearly designed to bait people into arguments and those have to be closed,) It's the modding discrepancy. Troll or hurl abuse at an OP like in the females everywhere thread, and no warnings are handed out, and the person being abused is punished by having his/her thread locked.
I didn't see any trolling, or people hurling abuse at the OP. I could have missed it, but I don't think conversing about a different topic than the thread's premise is a hostile thing to do. Also, I don't think you have any way of knowing what warnings may or may not have been handed out, so that's not really a valid point. I don't think locking the thread was punishing the OP, since he had long since abandoned his effort (whether it was trolling or otherwise) and given the sentiment he expressed, I doubt that leaving it open had any hope of accomplishing anything, anyway. BioWare isn't going to stop having female characters in positions of power simply because it offends someone (if they weren't trolling, which I suspect they were.)
Do it in a thread like say, the Gay KISA and the offending posters will have their posts removed and the thread will go on. There needs to be some consistency. All trolls and abusive posters need to be reprimanded, not just the ones seen as having conservative views.
I don't see the inconsistency. Knight in Shining Armour isn't a troll thread, and there is nothing hostile or demeaning to others in the premise of the OP. Even if the author of Females Everywhere wasn't a troll, his premise was that women shouldn't be in positions of power, and that having two women in a scene at the same time without a male character was overwhelming. That's not a conservative position, that's just an absurd position. There was no hope of a productive discussion from that. Frankly, I think the derailment was pretty close to a best-case scenario.
And for the record, I didn't really post in either thread (once in KISA, I think, and maybe three times in Females Everywhere.) I lurked Females Everywhere because it was funny, occasionally. In neither case do I feel I have any particular dog in the fight, and I don't see them as comparable. One was either going to be locked or abandoned from the start. People posting gifs or recipes wasn't going to harm anyone. Those things aren't offensive, and they aren't "bashing" anyone.
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). I honestly dont get people who get so upset about this. I mean, games are played by pretty much everyone nowadays, its pretty damn difficult to cater to every taste. That said, Cassandra is extremely attractive to me (Im a straight male). THe sidetrackign sounds almost exactly liek my old times in 9th grade on 4chan (no, its not as bad as tumblr will telll you)
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