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Originally Posted by KittyeeTrix View Post
All I can do Ficheall is to give you my word that I will not shunt posts willy-nilly into the off-topic thread.
That's fair. There will inevitably be differences of opinion over what is defined as "willy-nilly shunting", but in theory that would work.

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Originally Posted by musical.x View Post
I have actually posted a fair bit in the forum in plain writing but it seems you have overlooked this in order to drag up previous events that have already been dealt with.
I think that the reason empacher brought it up was to illustrate that KittyeeTrix gave some largely unhelpful (no offence) advice to the poster here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showp...58&postcount=2 , whereas posters have been chastised for advising others to "google it" or "look it up on the NUIG website".
Related to that topic, I see no reason why a thread from a student asking for help with some aspect of their course shouldn't be allowed to remain open so that other students might offer assistance.

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Originally Posted by musical.x View Post
If I posted it in bold there would be more complaints of the mods being power hungry and heavy handed. It seems no matter what we do everyone finds fault with it.
Personally, I have no issue with mods posting in bold. I think it became a focus for some posters' vitriol because it was symptomatic of the heavy-handedness.

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Originally Posted by musical.x View Post
If you want to discuss a topic that arises in the bitch thread or elsewhere, we can easily move the posts into a new thread and let it go from there. Would that be fair enough?

I do understand where Ficheall is coming from with a post being deleted after someone has spent a fair bit of time to write it up. Instead of deleting a post maybe we could suggest that a new thread be set up in order to discuss it fully, or if we set one up would you actually use it or just keep on posting in the original thread?
That sounds fair, though things might get a little messy with all the off-shoot topics that may spring up, and I hope you're aware of how much extra work you're potentially putting on yourselves here
Some threads, such as the capping of results, will need to be split into their own thread, whereas it might be easier to let the off-topic conversation in others peter out - as the economics one would surely have done had the anti-semite not arrived on the scene...