goddog said:
most of these so called doom threads started out as sales discussions be it weekly yearly what not and then became doom threads, that and discussion of a price drop, price point saturation, and sales of software. how do you distinguish ginuine topic discussion from bashing, as a lot of it right now might be negative in both fields. now if you want to confine the number of threads on a single topic like this weeks sales, numbers this year vs last year, that makes sense to kill duplicates. but to kill a thread because the discussion trends negative, especially if people are using sources and citing things is pretty harsh. edit/note, i dont care if its ps3/360 doomed, id still like a chance to talk about the subjects I layed out a pretty cool set of senerios a while back where sony could take advantage of not having a price drop this year and cleanup next year even with a drop as late as october... |
To be clear: I obviously won't close sales threads or pricepoint threads. And if there's a good reason for a thread it won't be closed of course.
There were really too many threads about how the PS3 was going the way of the Dodo. It's already not allowed to make duplicate threads, this one is just a help in achieving that there's one place where people can show their anger/sadness/whatever about that. People can also cite and uses sources HERE. It's not a censorship about the topic. In general I feel that we don't lock threads enough in case of duplicates.