At the very least, moderators should state their reasons for locking a thread when they lock it. Case in point:
I’m not saying that the thread in question shouldn’t have been locked. But there was no reason given, and no obvious posting guidelines violations. Just be honest and transparent. Be better.
While I agree that Plex should be transparent in why they locked a thread, from my perspective the OP caused it to get locked with their attitude actually re-looking at it, the OP did curse in 2 different posts by doing something that clearly tricked the system to have the way the f word was formatted not get censored. That is probably the real reason.
Post marked as solution, last sentence and their very last post.
(Was typing this prior to finding what I typed about the curse word) You were trying to help and honestly, they were just being immature and whiny.
How many people are running Plex perfectly fin without “constant” DB corruption (and I say it like that because it does not really seem super frequent for that OP at only 3 times, though we don’t know how long they have been running PMS).
Also, that OP just was not willing to help themselves by calmly helping provide responses/information.
Ultimate though, my guess is the 2 posts that contained profanity.
But yes, I agree the mod should have put the reason why they closed the post so people can easily see it in the future.
-Shark2k
Profanity aside, I thought it was a fairly honest discussion about how the media server handles database corruption (toward the end). @FordGuy61’s “intervention” was really a surprise to me.
I’d just like some transparency.
The OP asked for it to be closed in their last post.
I closed it because the OP asked for it to be closed (“I would like to close this thread…”).
That’s all.
Nothing to do with subject matter, tone, content, etc.
I just added an explanation for the closure. I’ll do so in the future on similar threads.
Was just going to post this:
FordGuy61 just updated the post and it makes it easier to see why.
Thanks @FordGuy61. The explanation helps to quickly see why a thread was closed as I even missed that in the last paragraph until you put the reason.
-Shark2k
Why didn’t you do so initially?
And just because an OP says “I don’t want to discuss this any more” doesn’t mean the topic isn’t worth discussing. That’s not up to them.
The initial topic was raised by them, but it was not concluded. That they considered it so does not mean that there isn’t value in the continued discussion. You, as a moderator, need to see that.
There are so many useless conversations on these forums. So many FUD threads that you allow to continue unabated. Why pick on this one, in particular? Just because a participant said “I want the last word, I’m done?” Really, be better.
Not posting a reason was an oversight on my part.
Why I closed it:
I can certainly reopen it. It just seemed like the conversation was over.
Any OP that doesn’t want a thread to continue has the delete option and can nuke their own thread.
They realized that it was their mistake and didn’t want to talk about it anymore. But letting their last word be that Plex was somehow defective seems… a bad look.
You can’t always allow an OP’s desire for a conversation to end to be the final word. There are bigger stakes here. Particularly that PMS is generally stable, DB-wise.
Stating “Plex (curse word here) my database due to my unstable system” is not acceptable, in my opinion. Leaving that as the last word is not cool.
I reopened the thread.
It seems pretty clear (at least to me) the problem is with OP’s system stability, not with Plex, irrespective of who gets the last word.
To be clear, I don’t care about the last word. I just want some editorial clarity. When a thread is closed, state why. You’ve done that here, and stated a desire to do that going forward. Thank you.
I truly don’t understand the mindset of “I don’t want to talk about this any longer” and the closure of a topic. When someone opens a topic, it’s open for discussion. It’s no longer their’s. If I were to say in a comment here that “I want to say this, and then want this topic closed” how would that be received?
It’s just common sense. If you open a topic, you do so with the expectation of feedback. That shouldn’t be closed off if you don’t like the feedback.
I mean, block me, ignore me, but let the topic run its course.
And now, @ChuckPa has stepped in and closed (and unlisted entirely) the thread. This place just isn’t what it used to be.
If anyone has an issue with me, please speak to me first.
I am human and make mistakes.
Please, specifically, what community guidelines did I, myself, violate? When you guys make these decisions, you should explain who did what. Otherwise, there’s no lesson to be learned.
I mean, crap. You guys let threads with rampant FUD to be open and not censored at all. Threads which purport that the end is nigh for Plex as a personal media server. And yet this fairly innocuous thread is closed, and even better, delisted?
I would like to apologize. I was having a bad day and I took it out on the wrong people. Thank you for putting up with my shenanigans.
No worries. Lost track of how many times I’ve done the same. All good.
All good with me too. Everyone has bad days.
I was really cranky after digging my car out of nearly 1" thick ice.
