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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I find this conversation somewhat hilarious. :lol:
Mainly because of Brian's responses.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Just Kidden]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/146/</uri>
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			<updated>2009-05-19T14:26:44Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=brian][url]http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/topic/2216/my-homemade-os-monkey-os/[/url][/quote]

It says he shall release it later, he's designing it of another OS, adn Linux. It's not spam.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Regan]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[regan1994@live.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/324/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-05-19T13:48:30Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=SlothPaladin]If there really such a link from a reliable source that would not be trolling, while the topic of the link might be controversial I don't think there would be any controversy about discussing such a topic, we are all brickfilmers after all.  However if the post was just from some extremest fear mongering website why should we give them more traffic?  We are not thread locking robots, threads are locked on a case by case basis, if a thread looks like it will be entertaining, or might have good conversations they aren't going to be locked, but this is not a forum where you can spam your every whim.[/quote]

This is just ridiculous. If the topic will not be interesting it will die out by itself. You don't need to lock topics to ensure their doom. 

Soap4000 posted links to a scientific theory. Next thing we know if he posts a topic about super-string theory it will be locked too. After all it is very controversial.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[brian]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/164/</uri>
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			<updated>2009-05-19T02:53:08Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/48745/#p48745"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Maybe you missed it, but in my post I defended the original poster:
[quote=SlothPaladin]Many of us know the truth, that the earth [i]is[/i] flat and rest on the shoulders of four giant elephants who stand on The Great Turtle A'Tuin.  However the very nature of this discussion will create more finger pointing, and unpleasantness then a topic about religion, so I'll have to lock this :([/quote]

So maybe just maybe, I've had the argument with others before and ran some statistics on it?  I know you aren't a member of every forum I visit.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[SlothPaladin]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/411/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-05-19T02:52:54Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=brian]Also: How do you know that 99.9% of people would disagree?[/quote]

How does he know that people wouldn't think the earth is flat?

:lol:

That's a question that is easy to ask if you're trying to disagree, but when you step back and look at it with some common sense it doesn't really hold up.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/28/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-05-19T02:45:58Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/48743/#p48743</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[If there really such a link from a reliable source that would not be trolling, while the topic of the link might be controversial I don't think there would be any controversy about discussing such a topic, we are all brickfilmers after all.  However if the post was just from some extremest fear mongering website why should we give them more traffic?  We are not thread locking robots, threads are locked on a case by case basis, if a thread looks like it will be entertaining, or might have good conversations they aren't going to be locked, but this is not a forum where you can spam your every whim.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[SlothPaladin]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/411/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-05-19T02:45:39Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/48742/#p48742</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=SlothPaladin] Posting a link that 99.9% of the forum is going to disagree with out expounding is just trolling.
[/quote]
Would me posting a link of Obama saying brickfilms should be outlawed be trolling?

Also: How do you know that 99.9% of people would disagree? You didn't let the discussion continue....]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[brian]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/164/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-05-19T02:38:29Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/48740/#p48740</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/48739/#p48739"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Why not give him the benefit of the doubt? Because he has provided no evidence and is claiming something highly implausible. Team efforts to do what he is talking about are eons away:

[url]http://www.reactos.org[/url]

Microsoft spends billions to create its operating systems... how likely is it that someone on these forums will reverse engineer windows? Its called spam.... Even IF he did have an operating system (that wasn't built from the ground up) it is certainly not legal... and this is not the place for piracy...]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[brian]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/164/</uri>
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			<updated>2009-05-19T02:37:28Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=brian][quote=SlothPaladin]
Coping and pasting controversial links is not lively discussion, it's [b]LAZY TROLLING[/b][/quote]

Ok, so posting a movie in the movies forum with only a link and a one line description is trolling now? This is ridiculous.[/quote]

How is posting a link to a movie a 'controversial link'?  Posting a link that 99.9% of the forum is going to disagree with out expounding is just trolling.  This is a site about film making, posting links to things that film makers (or lovers) may find interesting is not trolling.  Trolling is all about stirring up controversy for the hell of it.

[meta]This thread is an excellent example of trolling that is right on the edge, but has not really crossed the line.  While you may not have gotten an interesting conversation about a flat earth defending the thread has got a reaction that I'm sure makes you very pleased.  You've even managed to provoke administrators into long responses. [/meta]]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[SlothPaladin]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/411/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-05-19T02:35:21Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[From my experience with flat earth websites, almost all of the people there realize it's silly and just like to joke about it.  They put together elaborate explanations for it for fun.  It's, like, a really unproductive hobby.  Perhaps you do just care enough about this site to give constructive criticism, but both of the 'arbitrarily' locked threads you've provided to back up your point were both started by someone apparently named after a spammer from BF some years ago, and most of his posts on this site haven't really contributed much to discussion.  We don't lock a thread unless it looks like it's going to be more of a headache than it's worth, which is why those two threads are the only ones we've locked in this forum in months.

edit: Ok, there's no conclusive proof that simpsonking is making that up, why not give him the benefit of a doubt?  I know it's easy to play devil's advocate and call it unjust when the mods use common sense in disfavoring someone named 'soap4000' who just registered, but calling simpsonking a liar because he claims to have made an OS (he never said from the ground up) is rude at best.

-Sméagol, who probably wouldn't have locked the flat earth thread but thinks the justification was sufficient]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/28/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-05-19T02:16:21Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/48731/#p48731</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=HeAndHimStudios][quote=brian]3. Smarter people don't visit as often[/quote]
So, I'm not very smart?[/quote]
Intelligence comes with age. With age comes work.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[brian]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/164/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-05-19T02:07:50Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/48727/#p48727</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/48726/#p48726"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[The great irony is that some people post 100% spam eg:

[url]http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/topic/2216/my-homemade-os-monkey-os/[/url]

And it does not get locked

There is no way this operating system exists. One programmer coding an operating system from the ground up that perfectly executes windows applications?

You mods are just head hunting and going after people like "soap4000" for whatever reason....]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[brian]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/164/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-05-19T02:06:43Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/48726/#p48726</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/48725/#p48725"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=brian]3. Smarter people don't visit as often[/quote]
So, I'm not very smart?]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Regan]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[regan1994@live.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/324/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-05-19T02:04:36Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/48725/#p48725</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=SlothPaladin]
Coping and pasting controversial links is not lively discussion, it's [b]LAZY TROLLING[/b][/quote]

Ok, so posting a movie in the movies forum with only a link and a one line description is trolling now? This is ridiculous.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[brian]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/164/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-05-19T02:04:33Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/48724/#p48724</id>
		</entry>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Locking topics?]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/48723/#p48723"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[1. How is this topic harming anyone
2. Not everyone visits everyday
3. Smarter people don't visit as often
4. Just because idiots find a topic first doesn't mean it should be locked
5. I wanted to make a legit reply, but it was locked.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[brian]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/164/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-05-19T02:03:36Z</updated>
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