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In reply to the discussion: Not for Nothing ... but, Am I the Only One to think that it is a travesty that of ALL the times [View all]Violet_Crumble
(35,955 posts)TA's correct that raising it in the Hosts forum wouldn't be a good idea. Forum hosts can't do anything and have no access to who alerts on what and only decide to lock or leave alerted OPs based on the SOP of the forum they're hosting. And sometimes they argue a lot over that, at least us GD hosts do, so giving them something different would probably play out something like this:
1. You post your question.
2. GD hosts descend on yr question, one of them goes searching back through every word Skinner's ever written on DU and a big fight breaks out over the meaning of the word consensus resulting in 200 posts in less than two hours.
3. You get sick of it and lock yr OP to stop the shit-fight and wander back here none the wiser
4. In the meantime the GD host who spent hours poring over Skinners every word at DU starts a new thread in the hosts forum titled '(GD) What is the definition of consensus in relation to coming to a decision on discussing alert-stalking at DU?'
5. A lone GD host appears and decides that thread title is an OP in GD and goes off searching for it so they can lock it and never returns.
6. Other GD hosts arrive who contribute another 200 posts arguing about what consensus means and what situations it's not necessary in.
7. One GD host mentions in the thread that they really hate cute kitten OPs and think they are destroying GD. Everyone else ignores that host.
8. A few GD hosts start yelling at each other about the lack of consistency they've seen in each other from previous arguments about the meaning of consensus, call each other wankers and storm off to start their own host forum OPs on the meaning of consensus.
9. EarlG steps in and locks all the threads on consensus that sprung up.
10. None of them notice that in the meantime (here's my practical suggestion) you've gone over to ATA and posted something along the lines of 'Could you tell us if there's a pattern of alert stalking against Seabeyond? If there is, are there steps you'd take to stop people who would be abusing the alert system from doing it?' I dunno, maybe clarify what you mean by alert stalking (eg the same person repeatedly alerting against the same person) and keep yr fingers crossed he answers, coz I've noticed he doesn't answer a lot of questions nowadays...