why does some relatively new mod get to decide to close it now?
For one, in 2009 the moderators likely were
relatively new themselves.
If you could fathom, for a second, that the moderator in question is qualified and made a fairly decent judgment call to do what he did, and have some compassion with the people who are cleaning the mess up behind the scenes, maybe you'd appreciate the community we have here a bit more, or at all.
We don't tell moderators to wait until they've been on board forever to start making decisions. Why would we appoint moderators that we wouldn't give powers to? Have you thought about the absurd way your complaint comes off?
My suggestion to you is to send PM's to the CEP team, if you feel so strongly, and make a compassionate case. Your abrasiveness doesn't work well in some situations.
You should've added my post to the thread.
Moderator decisions can be sometimes done swiftly but normally with team effort and often behind the scenes discussions on how to handle certain situations are had.
Dog piling in one last post to a locked thread isn't what you get to complain about when it gets locked, and sometimes, *sometimes* if you ask *nicely* they will do it for you. Sometimes.
It helps to be a nice person, I guess... then again I didn't get where I am today by ragequitting every time I didn't get my way. (OK I didn't do that EVERY time...)
CEP is mainly frequented by left leaning members so it’s usually biased but it’s a lot better than it used to be. Alasdair and spacejunk fucked it up but it seems better now
I can't agree with this sentiment but I really do appreciate the honest input; CEP had its issues and I DO NOT think that either of these people did anything but HELP - with that said, with time and learning on dealing with a set of difficult circumstances I think we are indeed handling CEP better now than we used to.
And if it wasn't closed a decade ago then it shouldn't really be closed now.
You have no idea how anything works here. Locking and archiving old threads is a huge part of pruning / cultivating the forum over time.