Right wing thread closes

knucklehead6 · 28-06-2023 5:52pm #1

Firstly may I say I have no issue with the closure of the thread. I hadn’t read it all but it was going along the usual lines for that type of thread.

What I have an issue with is that Ten of Swords closed the thread at 1:57.

How is it then that ancapailldorcha was able to post at 2:26?

If the post at 2:26 was a mod action then it would be understandable. But it wasn’t. It was a reply to a comment. Could it be that ancapailldorcha used his mod abilities to reopen a thread just to post a comment and then close it again?

is this not a bit of a breach of powers?

Spear · 28-06-2023 6:01pm

Not necessarily. It can be done without realising it was closed. Mods have the permissions to reply directly onto a closed thread. There's no other action needed other than to post normally.

Dr Turk Turkelton · 28-06-2023 6:03pm

I believe ancapailldorcha is currently unwell and will not be able to answer any questions to the committee at the present time.

knucklehead6 · 28-06-2023 6:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120779192#Comment_120779192

Fair enough. Seems like a plausible explanation. Another gift from vanilla so!! Is this on the list of things to get fixed, as it does look quite bad from a user perspective

L1011 · 28-06-2023 8:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120779208#Comment_120779208

It was always possible for an appropriate section mod to post in a closed thread - if you want to give a reason and don't want to risk other posts happening while its still open its the safest thing to do.

Vanillas contribution to this as a problem is that a thread being closed is *completely invisible* on mobile if you're a mod in that category. Thread looks normal, reply box is there as usual. It is shown as locked on browser but I would do 90% of my posting on mobile.

knucklehead6 · 28-06-2023 9:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120779825#Comment_120779825

I was never a mod on the old platform so I can’t definitively say whether what you’ve posted is correct, so I’ll take your word for it.

But I wouldn’t consider it appropriate. I don’t think that a mod should be allowed post a reply to a comment after a thread is locked. If the mod feels the need for a mod action that’s one thing, but this wasn’t a mod action, it was just a comment. Feels a bit like a game of oneupmanship, “I can comment and you can’t”

For what it’s worth the there is a line saying “this discussion is closed” and in the menu the thread is marked as closed.

i don’t get how there can be half an hour between a thread being locked and a mod just happening to post a reply…

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Leg End Reject · 28-06-2023 11:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120779912#Comment_120779912

Is it possible that the mod was reading the thread, responded to a post and only when it was posted saw the thread closure note?

knucklehead6 · 29-06-2023 6:35am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120780388#Comment_120780388

Going by what Spear and L1011 have said anything is possible. And I'm not trying to cause trouble for ancapailldorcha or anything like that. Firstly I was wondering how it happened, and your suggestion is quite probable. Secondly I was wondering if this is one of those 'undocumented features' that the rest of us call bugs and is it on the wishlist of fixes, because it does look a little bad. Maybe once the mod in question realised the thread was locked they should have deleted their post? I don't know, but from a user experience it looks wrong.