User blog:Danielboone6702/My opinion on locked posts, fake quotes, etc.

I honestly have no idea why so many of you are angry at the mods for their decision regarding locked posts and fake quotes. You treat it like it's so outrageous and unreasonable. I don't understand this at all.

I think you guys are forgetting that the Lego Message Board is a service. The entire website is a service. Services are subject to to rules that you must obey, or the service may be terminated. I don't think that's unreasonable at all! If you want to be involved in the LMBs, listen to the mods!! Don't back-talk them and make demands when they tell you to stop something! I think that should be very obvious.

Besides, it's not like they're asking you to stop doing any test that involves messing with the HTML. They simply don't want you to do anything that could inconvenience other users. For example, if you mess up the pages like what happened before, then it'll be hard to see the other comments. If you test fake quotes, then you could confuse people and disrupt discussions there. If you lock your posts, then it makes it harder for other to reply to you. Also, the LMBs are mainly about discussing things. The basic quoting functionality is a core part of being able to discuss things on the MBs. You can't just mess with it to prevent people from responding to you. The mods don't want us to mess with the core functionality or the UI of the MBs, and I don't think that's an unreasonable request.

Bottom line, if the mods are telling you that you should not be doing something, listen to them, don't complain that they're being unreasonable. They don't really want to restrict all the creative tests we've been doing lately, but the moderators are in charge of making sure that the site is stable and safe for everyone. Obviously, they can't allow users to mess with the basic functionality of the site. Sometimes, the mods have to set hard limits. They don't want to be unfair or unreasonable, they just have to make sure the LMB is a stable place.