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[Destructobot]

For some reason I don't have permission to reply to a topic I created in User Submitted News. The topic: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=50658

 

[ZeWarriorReturnz]

That's strange..? Have done something to your profile settings?

 

[adgloride]

This has happened to me before, but on the old forum (Before they updated it). I tried again later and it seemed to put itself right.

 

[Destructobot]

They have locked replies in the User Submitted News forum; the last dozen or so topics have zero replies. I guess they just don't want people discussing stuff in there.

 

[Mewgia]

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They shouldn't lock replies in the user-submitted forum, since many of those things never make the front page and therefor we cannot discuss them anywhere besides that subforum.

 

[adgloride]

Maybe the powers that be on GBATemp got fed up with some people making spammy replys.

 

[lagman]

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They shouldn't lock replies in the user-submitted forum, since many of those things never make the front page and therefor we cannot discuss them anywhere besides that subforum.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[shaunj66]

Good point guys.

In the future, topics that don't get deemed newsworthy will be moved to their respective forum where replies can be made, and a link topic will be left in user submitted news.

edit: and yes, we recently turned off the ability to reply to topics there as it was annoying when we made a new topic on the portal about the news and half or all the discussion was left/made in the original post.

 

[Destructobot]

Wouldn't it be simpler to allow replies, and just lock the user posted topic when you post it in the "real" news section?

 

[shaunj66]

Wouldn't it be simpler to allow replies, and just lock the user posted topic when you post it in the "real" news section?

We'd rather have all discussion in a topic where people can contribute and read all posts. We don't want to seal discussion away in a closed topic...