Why was my thread closed?

[Guest cjr]

Let me buy everyone a drink!!

[Fallguy]

Closing this thread.

Lots of things that should have been dealt with via PM's. Especially when it comes to disagreeing with a moderator.

Edited February 13, 2010 by Fallguy

[TGO David]

As a follow-up...

A thread like this is the last thing a forum admin wants to see first thing in the morning. A lot went wrong here and it started out by a moderator innocently doing what he felt was best for the forum. I understand why Strick closed the thread and can see why he felt that it teetered on the edge of illegal activity. I appreciate his vigilance and do not believe he did anything wrong.

I have reversed the banning against Bassmaster since I feel somewhat confident that he did not realize "flipping" a firearm like that could raise eyebrows at the BATFE. Now he knows. Hopefully he'll use a little more discretion in the future, at least as it pertains to posting things like that on the Internet.

HOWEVER...

What rubs me wrong is the number of members who started piling onto the fight and arguing against what a moderator had done. Seriously? You people should all know by now that we don't cater to "mob rule" around here.

Nothing was done by a moderator that couldn't be undone a few hours, or days, later. Nothing was done that couldn't be appealed to me if all else failed.

One thing that I am not going to tolerate on TGO is anarchy among the members. As a result, I have banned quite a few people this morning. Most of them are just temporary one-week bans as a reminder that there is a chain of command here and it will be followed or there will be consequences.

One or two folks are gone permanently as they have made it a practice to argue with the policies of this forum and with those tasked with enforcing those policies, almost from the moment they first stepped foot onto TGO.

Let this be a reminder to everyone that there are right ways and wrong ways to handle disagreements with the forum staff. What happened here was a huge example of a really, really wrong way.

I'm pretty displeased with some folks who really should have known better.