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That isn't neccessarily fair to say zenne. You have no idea the rest of the stuff in that thread, i've never ever gotten such a reaction. He was obviously a troll from the other things he said in that topic. I don't think you can realize that from all the stuff i cut out. kinda like you're somewhat aiming this at me, i however didn't even report it for that fact, we have a helper now so we aren't really supposed to report misplaced threads.
Hm? I wasn't aiming that at anyone - I've long held the opinion that regular users shouldn't be allowed to go in and say "this doesn't belong here." Some of those comments were (very obviously) the result of that kind of thing - however, if people weren't allowed to respond to misplaced threads, from what I can tell (unless you post the entire thing, people can only base what they say off of what they see, by the by) some of that may not have happened.
"not really supposed to report misplaced threads" I don't know what context you're putting this in, but it sounds awful fishy to me. : P
In any case, I put a "this may be slightly off-topic" disclaimer there for a reason.
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I merely let the user know he wasn't in the correct forum, and he clearly said to me "yea well i don't feel like going through the subforums" I can't help that.
And that would be part of my point - it's like a ticking bomb waiting to explode. if it doesn't happen one time, good, but it's somewhat inevitable. A lot of conflicts I've seen, not all, but a lot of them, result from users going "this does not belong here"
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Then the conflict elevated when another user came in and started flaming this guy. I can see where he got offended even, but the way a user reacts is out of our control.
Exactly, it's out of your control - meaning when someone does go off, you don't know when, where, or how, but you can get rid of the leading causes.
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It's not the same situation as teacher/student.
Teacher = moderator
Student = users on the same level
The reaction might not go off every time, but it happens, and it happens because of an unneccesary factor - normal users going "this does not belong here."
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It's more like a club type thing, an older more experienced user is letting you know that your thread should be placed in a different forum.
No. By "older more experienced user" you mean "forum regular." (because we can't assume that misplaced threads are all made by newbies, can we?) It's hardly ever viewed as a club - it's more likely to be viewed as "forum nazi regulars" "forum regulars" "me vs. the bitchy forum regular." And again, it doesn't always happen that way, but it can. Users saying "this thread is misplaced" is an uneccesary factor in the entire equation.
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Newer users don't always know where to post or read the stickies, if other users don't tell them to they never will. You can't forbid users from telling people where the propoer forum is, then you just have other users with a lot of questions on why their topics were moved. Please don't assume things even if you don't have all the information.
Oh, but I'm not assuming things. You're just assuming that I am. : ) The majority of what I said is not based on what went on there, but parts of it; since you didn't show the whole story, I can't very well know it all, can I? But part of what you've shown does relate to what I'm saying, which is why I said, "this may be slightly off-topic."
Actually, you can forbid users from telling people why their threads are misplaced (to disprove that, people aren't supposed to post in misplaced threads in ED). The user will either get a message saying why the thread is moved, or PM an online moderator, or (and this happens little, and even so, I tend to expect it if it happens in the forum from which the thread was moved) make a thread in Q and F or something - all of those options are far, far better (safe) than the time bomb that is forum regular "this doesn't belong here." Also, "this doesn't belong here" is a spam-bomb when the user asks "Why?"
in the thread.
