richard_leeds wrote:I agree with you Wesley. Discussion of parts on cars should remain in the car thread, but that wasn't the case in the posts that have been moved.
Looking back at posts that have been moved from car threads to the race we have see 8 posts from F2012 that quote lap and sector times and a couple of comments such as "looking stable in corner x". There is one post from RB8 thread about Vettel and Hamilton's lap times.
Then there are the 5 posts from the W03 thread that Huntresa and you have mentioned. These start with a comparison of Merc and Mclaren sped traps ... "
something strange.... DDRS didnt work? or.... super long straight lines but McLaren are faster. DDRS advantage disappeared".
That isn't a discussion of a part on the car, it is comparing speed trap data between two cars, so that's a race topic. Also one can't extrapolate headline times to a specific part on a car. For all we know the two cars in question could have had different tyres, different age of tyres, different fuel loads, or running experimental parts.
To be completely transparent about it, the posts from the W03 thread that were moved to the race thread are:
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Those post certainly do not fit the Canadian GP thread, if they had to be moved they would be to the DDRS thread, which there believe is one. It has no bussiness at all in the Canadian GP thread, it called the DDRS merc top speed deficit on this track yes, but the object discussed was the DDRS and its effectiviness, compared to what McLaren had achieved. It's discussion wasnt about the top speed in the canadian gp.
ps - There are quite a few members who report posts and send PMs to mods asking us to be even stricter.
So? I bet there are more who think otherwise.
That says absolutely nothing. That is like saying in a discussion about the most reliable car you come by and say 'well this one goes 300kph'.
It says nothing and rather shows that the whole moderating team looks through it with different glasses, you're not looking at it objective, no you are now taking a few PM's to use as an argument in that there are a few who would like to see more. Havent you noticed the constant bickering about this subject in the past year? I have yet to see a post where the poster states the mods should keep on moving more posts to their relevant topics.
Great that they want you to be strickter, I want that too, but on a whole different subject than the moving of posts. I want you to be stricter on handling the posts itself. I can call someone a --- without any problem, but if I post off topic a few times hell breaks loose. Dont you think that is wrong? The moderating team sees more importance in indexing post correctly than keeping their members in line. and indexing a post according to subject is something anyone could do.
The forum has become much less fun when they started moving the posts. You might think it is good that these are moved but it is not. In the topics there usually is only 2, max 3 different discussions going on. Guess what happens when you suddenly dump a shitload of post in between the current discussion just because it fits the subject more? You get an unreadable discussion and everyone is confused.
Let me show it;
The original topic.
Poster one;
'Bruce Lee is the best fighter ever'
Poster two;
'No he is not, he has lost multiple battles and a lot of times by his own mistakes'
These two posts dont fit the topic subject 100% so they get moved.
Then you get this topic;
Poster one;
'Bruce Lee is the best fighter ever'
Poster Other topic;
'Chuck Norris put in great action in Walker; Texas Ranger'
Poster two;
'No he is not, he has lost multiple battles and a lot of times by his own mistakes'
You see what happens? Suddenly the post by poster two has a whole different meaning, where it originally was directed to Poster one, it now seems to be directed to Poster Other topic. Then you get a whole different discussion and lots of confused people. Great isnt it? It also really aids the contact between people and discussions, it is good when people become in flame wars and completely kill discussions because of this.
Seriously, take off those glasses. Just because a few think you should be stricter doesnt mean you are doing a good job, like said where a few would like to see more psots moved, more, much more would like it to not happen.
Also, just out of curiosity, isnt it weird that when the moving of posts started happening suddenly the whole level of discussion dropped significantly? Or is that just me.
I dont know how many times I, and others have to say this before the moderating team finally starts seeing this.
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