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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I contacted both moderators and asked why last Sunday’s thread was locked before I said anything about it on the forum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was told that the thread was locked because someone complained that we were making errors in our discussion of Illinois grade crossing law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other than that, I was given no specific reason for the locking. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">But to the point of rude comments:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rude comments are against the rules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Publicly asking a moderator why a thread was locked is not against the rules, so why should it even be considered to be a problem?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can be characterized as being rude by referring to is as “calling a moderator out,” but that is just using inflammatory rhetoric in an attempt to elevate it to the level of an offense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">A thread is in the public domain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a moderator locks one, he does so on the thread, in public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often when he does so, he announces the reason publicly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes moderators personally and publicly scold a forum member whom they believe is causing a problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes they harshly chastise a group of thread participants collectively, painting them with a broad brush, leaving the impression publicly that they have all violated a rule when all have not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If moderators can do this in public, why should be considered wrong to question them publicly? </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">What seems really rude to me is to lock a thread that is not violating any rules, but rather only because another member complained that they did not like it; and to do this without any explanation to the participants of the thread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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