How do topics disappear?

[The Legend]

So I'm curious, I checked out this site yesterday evening while I was at work and found a topic created that I couldn't respond to at the time because I was at work, but I very much wanted to when I had the chance. I look today and that topic is nowhere to be found. So how does a topic just completely vanish?

[War Daddy]

Im assuming Tim locks it and then deletes. Could be wrong though.

[PorkChop]

It was deleted, and seeing as there's no other explanation, I suspect you probably know this. There was no real need to make this topic.

[Everlong]

If it's the topic I'm thinking of, the person who started it asked one of the global mods to delete it. I never actually saw it, though.

[The Legend]

If it's the topic I'm thinking of, the person who started it asked one of the global mods to delete it.

Interesting. Seems like a double standard.

[SlightlyJames]

What was the topic? Must have gone up while I was asleep or something.

[Everlong]

If it's the topic I'm thinking of, the person who started it asked one of the global mods to delete it.

Interesting. Seems like a double standard.

How's that? I can't think of a time we've ever refused to delete a topic if someone's asked us to do it, which has only happened a couple times.

[Messiah]

Dude, you're a fucking awesome poster, but there is no double standard going here. I saw what you said in that deleted thread and I know a lot of it was directed at me with some of that stuff. Nobody is intentionally against you. In the case of you and I, we just disagree on how things in life should be handled. It isn't a big deal and in the grand scheme of things, I would hate to see you distance yourself from here because you think you don't fit in. It has nothing to do with that. There are no "cliques" or anything like that.

[PorkChop]

Let it go, man.

[Everlong]

Dude, you're a fucking awesome poster, but there is no double standard going here. I saw what you said in that deleted thread and I know a lot of it was directed at me with some of that stuff. Nobody is intentionally against you. In the case of you and I, we just disagree on how things in life should be handled. It isn't a big deal and in the grand scheme of things, I would hate to see you distance yourself from here because you think you don't fit in. It has nothing to do with that. There are no "cliques" or anything like that.

I think you're thinking of a different topic. I believe the topic he's talking about was one called "My shitposting" by SKS, I never saw it though. The other one, which I locked, is still up in the General Sports Discussion forum.

[Messiah]

Dude, you're a fucking awesome poster, but there is no double standard going here. I saw what you said in that deleted thread and I know a lot of it was directed at me with some of that stuff. Nobody is intentionally against you. In the case of you and I, we just disagree on how things in life should be handled. It isn't a big deal and in the grand scheme of things, I would hate to see you distance yourself from here because you think you don't fit in. It has nothing to do with that. There are no "cliques" or anything like that.

I think you're thinking of a different topic. I believe the topic he's talking about was one called "My shitposting" by SKS, I never saw it though. The other one, which I locked, is still up in the General Sports Discussion forum.

Ah, well the point stands. I wanted to say it in that thread too, but I guess it may as well go here.

Never saw that thread either, so I guess I don't really know what the problem is/was.

[Locke]

The only thing I notice is The Legend seems raring and ready to fight on here lately.

OI, YOU WANNA FOIGHT?

[SKS]

I asked for it to be deleted because it had comments made by me that were childish and unnecessary. I explained in the thread that my intoxicated post about Cleveland being awful was just an intoxicated post made in jest because I wanted to have some fun and not a huge personal attack on anyone. I said that some people should lighten up about things, especially sports banter, it's really not that serious. I apologized if I truthfully personally offended anyone.

You had no problem responding to my post that defended Philadelphia sports teams (with team history and facts, no insults) with "Whatever, all Philly sports fans are morons and worst losers in America..." or something like that. I don't have a problem with those comments, you can say whatever you want, but you're doing the same thing I did in a drunken post and I assume you're currently sober. But when I did it as a failed attempted joke post, you made a big deal about this "double standard" and that you shouldn't have come back because of people being sarcastic or whatever, that I don't even understand. Again, I don't think it's a big deal.

If this was an honest question you could have easily PM'd Tim or another moderator. I feel that this topic was made to stir the pot even more and I don't feel that it's necessary. I mean, yea, my bad for saying that Cleveland Sucks. But to blow this out of proportion is a bit of an overreaction. You constantly post "I'm leaving" or "maybe I should leave" or "why did I come back here", and it just makes no sense. You can be a member of the site without responding or reading certain things you disagree with. Not everything is a personal attack against you. And why would there be a double standard? My topic got locked in the first place. If someone wants their topic locked or deleted, someone on the mod team will do it, why wouldn't they?

[The Legend]

If it's the topic I'm thinking of, the person who started it asked one of the global mods to delete it.

Interesting. Seems like a double standard.

How's that? I can't think of a time we've ever refused to delete a topic if someone's asked us to do it, which has only happened a couple times.

The double standard was, the person in question complaining about the fact that a topic got locked "before he had a chance to respond" and now here we are.

[SKS]

If it's the topic I'm thinking of, the person who started it asked one of the global mods to delete it.

Interesting. Seems like a double standard.

How's that? I can't think of a time we've ever refused to delete a topic if someone's asked us to do it, which has only happened a couple times.

The double standard was, the person in question complaining about the fact that a topic got locked "before he had a chance to respond" and now here we are.

You can say my name, I posted in this thread that it was me. We're back at square one with my stupid topic locked, and my other stupid topic deleted, so nothing has really changed except for this topic currently existing. Me complaining that my topic was locked is a "double standard" worth making a whole topic about? You get mad when people "single you out" but what exactly is this topic's purpose exactly? Double standards go both ways, man.

[The Legend]

Dude, you're a fucking awesome poster, but there is no double standard going here. I saw what you said in that deleted thread and I know a lot of it was directed at me with some of that stuff. Nobody is intentionally against you. In the case of you and I, we just disagree on how things in life should be handled. It isn't a big deal and in the grand scheme of things, I would hate to see you distance yourself from here because you think you don't fit in. It has nothing to do with that. There are no "cliques" or anything like that.

@Messiah

Believe me when I say that I don't have a long standing problem with you. I don't hold a grudge to you and we have no beef. I have no problem with the fact that you and I have different views on certain topics in life. My issue is more that over and over I find myself looking at issues from angles that no one on this board will look at them from. It's exhausting and frustrating sometimes to stand alone on issue after issue and sometimes feel like I don't share common ground with anyone in this community. My issue is far more general than it is specific to any person for the most part.

[PorkChop]

This is fucking ridiculous.

Legend - let it go, move on

SKS - stop responding

[The Legend]

Legend - let it go, move on

You should understand something. Someone telling me how I feel about something or that it shouldn't be important to me does nothing but strengthen my feelings and make me dig in stronger. I can't stand people being dismissive of me, which is exactly what this is.

EDIT: Also, telling me I need to let something go when I've made one topic on a subject vs 6 topics on the other side seems just a touch ironic.

[Everlong]

The double standard was, the person in question complaining about the fact that a topic got locked "before he had a chance to respond" and now here we are.

I chose to lock the other topic because it was stupid and intentionally inflammatory. He chose to have his topic deleted, because he apparently regretted what he said in it. They're different situations.

Nobody is owed a chance to respond, especially if it's just going to create a dragged-out fight that causes needless drama across this whole forum.

[Str8Shooter]

If it's the topic I'm thinking of, the person who started it asked one of the global mods to delete it.

Interesting. Seems like a double standard.

How's that? I can't think of a time we've ever refused to delete a topic if someone's asked us to do it, which has only happened a couple times.

The double standard was, the person in question complaining about the fact that a topic got locked "before he had a chance to respond" and now here we are.

It was me who deleted SKS's thread upon his request. This was after I had reprimanded him in a post in that thread. I actually thought you may not had seen the thread yet and I was hoping so, because then I could delete it and we would avoid another altercation, which is exactly what has happened now.

Do we need to make a "ignore" feature for this forum or something? It's looking more and more necessary with all the shit that goes down.