I never got a reply from you about what I said and I was quite frustrated to see the thread gone just literally a second after I replied to another post. Or before? I don't know. when I clicked reply button the thread was gone.

Everyone was being relatively calm about the topic. The harshest thing that was said in that thread I believe was "this is an ignorant post.". I mean lol.

You didn't just lock it you deleted it....why?

Thank you.

I'm the original poster of that thread.

I felt that the subject of Prince being bi-racial was far too easily discredited for a simple dicussion, even one making fun of the biography's original premise.

Plus, it was distracting us from the real debate--is Prince gay?

purplethunder3121 said:

There it is, ^^^

It's not deleted, just hidden, I spoke with the OP

We really were going in the general direction that topic usually goes like Purplethunder3121 gif, and off topic at that

It was turning into a general culture/race thread, and a couple people started getting personal.

And looks like Imago's original question 3 pages in was never answered lol

If it was turning into a culture/race thread you could've moved it to the 'Politics' sub-forum. (e.g. 9 out of 10 'Yonce threads ). A couple people got personal? That happens in every single thread. If the OP didn't like where the argument was going, as a moderator you could've reminded people this is not what OP had intended and maybe tried to get it back on topic. (But you do know that more than often and sometimes intentionally, people just start a topic or ask a random question, let others argue about it for 10 pages and never come back to participate in the discussion themselves at all. I've done that myself as well, do they still have the right to request to close their threads then?)

If all those failed you could've just locked it instead of hiding it...I say this because I don't understand why threads get hidden at all. Is it possible to NEVER hide threads and just lock them? When threads get hidden it feels like we were talking about some sort of taboo topics that we shouldn't really bring up in the future ever again. It was really a discussion of why who P is matters and I found a lot of the things said in the thread interesting. I suppose when threads get "hidden" moderators still have access to them but we don't. Locked threads on the other hand can easily be found and revisited. I always believed whatever you post on the internet HAS TO STAY forever. =3

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imago said:

I'm the original poster of that thread.

I felt that the subject of Prince being bi-racial was far too easily discredited for a simple dicussion, even one making fun of the biography's original premise.

Plus, it was distracting us from the real debate--is Prince gay?

I'm not sure if you're joking or not but I wouldn't have minded that debate at all. Not that I would've had much to say if at all but at least it would've been a funny one to watch lol!

Emancipation89 said:

If it was turning into a culture/race thread you could've moved it to the 'Politics' sub-forum. (e.g. 9 out of 10 'Yonce threads ). A couple people got personal? That happens in every single thread. If the OP didn't like where the argument was going, as a moderator you could've reminded people this is not what OP had intended and maybe tried to get it back on topic. (But you do know that more than often and sometimes intentionally, people just start a topic or ask a random question, let others argue about it for 10 pages and never come back to participate in the discussion themselves at all. I've done that myself as well, do they still have the right to request to close their threads then?)

If all those failed you could've just locked it instead of hiding it...I say this because I don't understand why threads get hidden at all. Is it possible to NEVER hide threads and just lock them? When threads get hidden it feels like we were talking about some sort of taboo topics that we shouldn't really bring up in the future ever again. It was really a discussion of why who P is matters and I found a lot of the things said in the thread interesting. I suppose when threads get "hidden" moderators still have access to them but we don't. Locked threads on the other hand can easily be found and revisited. I always believed whatever you post on the internet HAS TO STAY forever. =3

[Edited 3/8/13 14:07pm]

Generally when we lock a thread, it's not coming back

I hid it so another mod can check it out, I did consider moving it to another thread

Hiding a thread, most of the time is temp.

Emancipation89 said:

imago said:

I'm the original poster of that thread.

I felt that the subject of Prince being bi-racial was far too easily discredited for a simple dicussion, even one making fun of the biography's original premise.

Plus, it was distracting us from the real debate--is Prince gay?

I'm not sure if you're joking or not but I wouldn't have minded that debate at all. Not that I would've had much to say if at all but at least it would've been a funny one to watch lol!

that issue goes over board as well

imago said:

miszett1 said:

imago said:

I'm the original poster of that thread.

I felt that the subject of Prince being bi-racial was far too easily discredited for a simple dicussion, even one making fun of the biography's original premise.

Plus, it was distracting us from the real debate--is Prince gay?

Why would prince be gay when he fathered a child with his exwife

Beard

miszett1 said:

imago said:

I'm the original poster of that thread.

I felt that the subject of Prince being bi-racial was far too easily discredited for a simple dicussion, even one making fun of the biography's original premise.

Plus, it was distracting us from the real debate--is Prince gay?

Why would prince be gay when he fathered a child with his exwife

Ted Haggard wonders too!