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Campaign for the closing of the 'Aren't you atheists taking a big risk?' thread
August 3, 2012 at 9:11 pm
Right, seriously, it's gone far enough. This fucking thread was started in September 2011 by a nobody who got pinked and then stopped posting. A hit and runner dickwad.
When I log onto AF, I usually go straight to 'My Posts' to see if there's an update on any threads I've been contributing to. But every so often, some shitheaded fuckface who can't be arsed to read anything except the first post in the thread (and even then, not the date of it) posts again, quoting Pascal's Wager or some other flippant, simple response to a stupid, simple question.
Please, pretty fucking please, shut the fucking thread. Unless someone can come up with an actual reason for keeping it open? Beyond pissing everyone off which is admittedly probably funny to somebody.
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RE: Campaign for the closing of the 'Aren't you atheists taking a big risk?' thread
August 3, 2012 at 9:19 pm
Far as I can see, the only reason people keep posting there is to make some humorously ironic request for people to stop posting there. I myself have felt the almost overwhelming urge to do that. However I realise it would be as welcome as planting a dog turd on the rug and pretending it's a fake one so have overcome it. If this ever becomes a democracy, the motion (not the dog one) gets my vote.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Campaign for the closing of the 'Aren't you atheists taking a big risk?' thread
August 3, 2012 at 9:31 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2012 at 9:31 pm by Jackalope.)
(August 3, 2012 at 9:11 pm)ElDinero Wrote: When I log onto AF, I usually go straight to 'My Posts' to see if there's an update on any threads I've been contributing to. But every so often, some shitheaded fuckface who can't be arsed to read anything except the first post in the thread (and even then, not the date of it) posts again, quoting Pascal's Wager or some other flippant, simple response to a stupid, simple question.
Why don't you go to 'My Posts', check the thread, and select "Delete Subscription"?
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RE: Campaign for the closing of the 'Aren't you atheists taking a big risk?' thread
August 3, 2012 at 9:37 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2012 at 9:38 pm by ElDinero.)
Wait, I can do that?
Ok, tell me like I'm a two year old, button by button.
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RE: Campaign for the closing of the 'Aren't you atheists taking a big risk?' thread
August 3, 2012 at 9:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2012 at 9:42 pm by Jackalope.)
(August 3, 2012 at 9:37 pm)ElDinero Wrote: Wait, I can do that?
I don't know, can you? 
Otherwise, if you feel that a thread should be closed, report it, and make a compelling case in the report. That it keeps showing up in your subscribed threads list is not a very compelling reason. 
(August 3, 2012 at 9:37 pm)ElDinero Wrote: Ok, tell me like I'm a two year old, button by button.
Go to your "User CP", click on "View All Subscriptions".
Find the thread, click the checkbox to the right of it, scroll down to "With Selected", make sure that "Delete Subscriptions" is selected, and click "Go".
Problem solved.
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RE: Campaign for the closing of the 'Aren't you atheists taking a big risk?' thread
August 3, 2012 at 10:16 pm
(August 3, 2012 at 9:37 pm)ElDinero Wrote: Wait, I can do that?
Ok, tell me like I'm a two year old, button by button.
It's like a fucking "miracle" except it works.
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RE: Campaign for the closing of the 'Aren't you atheists taking a big risk?' thread
August 3, 2012 at 10:26 pm
(August 3, 2012 at 9:40 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Go to your "User CP", click on "View All Subscriptions".
Find the thread, click the checkbox to the right of it, scroll down to "With Selected", make sure that "Delete Subscriptions" is selected, and click "Go".
Problem solved.
Then my forum looks different to yours. I got as far as User CP. Believe me, if what you're telling me is possible, I'm all ears.
By the way, I'm almost certain that I have reported this thread in the past. Why leave them open when you have a guideline against necroposting, though? Very counterproductive.
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RE: Campaign for the closing of the 'Aren't you atheists taking a big risk?' thread
August 3, 2012 at 10:49 pm
(August 3, 2012 at 9:31 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Why don't you go to 'My Posts', check the thread, and select "Delete Subscription"? "My Posts" doesn't work like that. It will display any threads which you've posted in. Doesn't work on subscriptions at all.
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RE: Campaign for the closing of the 'Aren't you atheists taking a big risk?' thread
August 3, 2012 at 11:10 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2012 at 11:11 pm by Shell B.)
They have guidelines against necroposting so they don't have to close threads. I know that it is the policy to keep threads open unless it absolutely necessary to close them. Part of it is because the necroposting rule only applies in some cases. If you read it, you will see that it suggests seeing if it would be better served with a new thread.
You can unsubscribe, though, but like Adrian said, it won't matter. Just don't look at it. It is one thread in a heaping list. Hardly any trouble to read past in the list, I should think.
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RE: Campaign for the closing of the 'Aren't you atheists taking a big risk?' thread
August 3, 2012 at 11:59 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2012 at 1:09 am by Rayaan.)
I know that many of you guys find it annoying that the thread keeps getting necroposted over and over again. You want it to die so badly, but it doesn't.  But, I think that the easiest solution is to simply not pay attention to what gets posted in that thread. If you do feel tempted to click there, then just read whatever is there and click out of the thread without posting anything. That's what I've been doing every time I see a new post in that thread.
There is really nothing to do if someone wants to post there after a month later. To my understanding, necroposting is especially frowned upon if it is just an "I agree" reply on a topic buried ages ago or something along those lines. And like Shell B said, we tend to close threads only when necessary such as when they become completely out of control (flame wars, trolling, etc). In this case, it appears that the only reason you are asking the thread to be closed is to prevent others from posting in that thread. We do not close threads for that particular reason, however.
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