Em...Radar so far!

[akindolu]

Where is @wkyo when you need him?

[Diakon]

I don’t see a justification for closing the thread either… Though I certainly don’t agree with the “daily updates” idea. Really, hotels.ng is privately owned.
I think the moderators should have issued some kind of warning, perhaps with pointers at how exactly leaving the thread in its current state would have been bad for the community, and letting the contributors know what they were doing wrong.

[Lisabi]

All hail the supreme leader Kim Seyi Taylor!!!

[87_chuks]

I told sir Seyi to stay out of the daily bustlings as before, leaving Mr banks who is more experienced in that department, given repeated incidences.

But no, he had to take us back to the days when a thread took a shot to the head and continues to bleed after 2 days.

An unnatural death.

[Tola]

Common @wkyo, the house needs you! Please come out strong!!! And the drum rolls…

[Tola]

I actually gave you 24 hours to respond as it was your fight before setting my Agbero powers in motion. You have done well and house is behind you.

I was particularly pissed off as I was having an intresting conversation with xolubi on some intresting findings…

Ride on Bro! A luta continua, vitória é cert!!!

[Nosa_O]

Lol @Tola

Let’s cut @seyitaylor some slack. He probably reviewed the Radar guidelines and came to the conclusion that one or more of them were being violated. Now if he can just enlighten the house as to which ones…

[Nosa_O]

Tola, I agree. The thread was starting to exhibit very healthy discussions on Internet Security, a topic which is sadly hardly ever discussed on Radar.

[Ndianabasi]

@Tola

I actually gave you 24 hours to respond as it was your fight before setting my Agbero powers in motion. You have done well and house is behind you.

Thank you brother. We will do it again another time! Thanks for helping in the raising the awareness about internet privacy and security.

@Nosa_O

The thread was starting to exhibit very healthy discussions on Internet Security, a topic which is sadly hardly ever discussed on Radar.

It’s quite unfortunate that the thread had to die so prematurely. But I’m comforted by the fact that the thread achieved some purpose before its untimely death. Thank you for your support sir!

[xolubi]

I discovered the thread was closed when I attempted submitting an already composed reply to you. Ah, well…

[MrASulaiman]

@seyitaylor; Let me first assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I’m simply worried.

We can have a first time; ‘Thread Unlocking’ Treat.
I have observed that a truly great library of Radar’s thread contains something in it to offend everyone.

@xolubi; I believe you! Maybe a thread on ‘Sniffing HTTP Post Password’ will welcome that pending reply.

[xolubi]

I saved it to Evernote so why wait when you can have it right away.

[PapaOlabode]

I think thread closure is always an interesting one. As @87_chuks mentioned, we’ve had strange calls in the past. It was also one of my bugbears which I’ve raised after seeing it first hand;

For instance, back in October…in a thread also surprisingly called [b]Radar So Far[/b], I raised 2 points;

Radar So Far

Very interesting choice of words @MistaMajani. But since you’ve actually gone ahead to list various ways Radar can be improved, I would say it’s all good. In any case, 2 improvements points: More clarity on why posts are locked will be good. Some days it appears the threshold is at best arbitrary And how decisions to ban users are reached will be helpful. I mean Ozombo could be a nuisance but to ban him outright, could be termed an overreaction. Its indeed early days, and definitely interes…

And just several days ago…I asked @lordbanks

Content Marketing [moved to meta by mod for etiquette issues]

But what’s your thought process before closing a thread? It’s good to remove ambiguity and shed some light on how you decide a thread needs to be shut down. Or is it a case by case basis of ‘mehn, can’t be bothered, I go shut this down!’?

And this was in response…

Content Marketing [moved to meta by mod for etiquette issues]

These are the non-exhaustive list questions I ask myself before I elect to shut down a thread. Which, if I might add, happens very rarely. Does the thread violate community guidelines? Has the thread outlived its usefulness, to the point that further posts serve no purpose other than to degrade the experiences for users Is the OP trying to game the forum? The OP’s posting history Do the contents of a thread constitute a security risk to any person(s)? If any of these conditions are satisfied,…

In this case, it appears to fall under the ‘outlived its usefulness’ (which might be debatable but requires a judgment call). In any case, what we need to work on is communicating that better. So at least everyone will know what’s going to happen.

In all, I think when thread closure happens; some people are pissed off, some are happy and some frankly, think what took so long! But the bad cases are always when no one knows it’s going to happen. I think we need to remove the surprise element. So in this context, when we use the word community, it signifies that while a conversation is ongoing, which the community is very much engaged in, then there’s little chance of it being arbitrarily shut down.

[Nosa_O]

Interesting. Arguably the most useful post on Radar outlived it’s usefulness.

[lordbanks]

Was that thread heading for closure? Probably. If @Ndianabasi had followed through on his promise to keep updating the thread daily with his righteous crusade, aka forum gaming. Where @seyitaylor erred was closing a thread where people other than @Ndianabasi were actively having a newly useful conversation. So while it technically had outlived its usefulness (trying to catch @Mark’s attention, I’m sure he noticed the first time, and it was already getting weirdly obsessive), the thread had assumed a new and useful purpose, albeit right before its closure. We apologise. Mods/admins are human, and we won’t always make the best call in every situation. All we can do is try and get better.

@papaolabode is absolutely right about removing the surprise element for thread closure. But that is not all. He’s actually been goading me for weeks to release a bunch of pre-discussed community-wide updates that will clarify a lot of issues. We’ve begun to implement a lot of the feedback that’s emerged from this conversation. Dormant mods are gone. We’re putting more wood behind fewer moderation arrows. The next generation of moderation will not just be about enforcing the rules, but also about nurturing high quality conversations. The TechCabal news bot is currently being iterated till it properly serves its original purpose of linking the community and the portal in a way that virtuously enhances both. I promise you that we’re working on these things and more.

[Engrtitus]

Em…Radar so far, not so good

[Nosa_O]

Thanks for the update. Keep up the good work; hopefully we as Radar users can take responsibility and do our part to foster a positive environment while the mods and founders actively steer this ship in the right direction.

No one wants to be on a ship with a busted radar - sorry couldn’t resist that pun!

[Tola]

I will await your post on the subject and then present you with my line of thought about the wealth of information that can be harvested by correlating email addresses vs cost of purchase (all in the URL parameters) to help convert a maga. In meantime, kudos and well done on your efforts.

[MrASulaiman]

This just hit me @lordbanks; you guys should create a Category and name it ‘Trash Can’ so when a post drives down a trashlane or due for delete, it’ll find itself in the ‘Trash Can’.

Considering the process streamlined to delete a post, an OP can move his/her Trashpost to the Trashcan to save face.