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Topic: Sales Threads
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Michael O'Regan
Film God
Posts: 3085
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted May 18, 2012 05:01 PM
Further to the stuff on Ricky's thread, and in order not to perpetuate the offence, I thought it best to move the whole thing to a new thread. It seems to me there's a difference between "commenting upon" and "hijacking" a sales thread.
I personally can see no harm in discussion of the sale itself.
However, with this particular thread, another member immediately jumped in with a reference to his own sale, and how much better a deal it was. Then the topic moved on to discussion of a totally different film, and finally even after the whole issue was highlighted, there was a totally unrelated interjection about Winbert's nationality. That, in my opinion, is hijacking.
ps: having typed and posted this, I just noticed that Doug has locked the thread in question. Doug, this is not an attempt to circumvent your closing of the topic. I was posting this concurrently with you locking Ricky's thread.
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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God
Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted May 19, 2012 03:52 PM
Osi it's a forum.and as Winbert and some other members have already stated,it is a community that we have here.Remember some weeks ago,when we were concerned for one of our members with YouTube, opinions were expressed,some forceful,but all heartfelt for the predicament of one of our own.Likewise with Richards thread,he had already advertised his film,he had laid out his request,so anything that followed really didn't matter. As Winbert and myself have already stated,that thread had never been off the Forum display, and that has got to be good for Richards film,because anybody logging on immediately see's that ad for "Empire Strikes Back"that would normally have dropped off the radar,so really all this fuss, over not very much, has done Richard the best advertising he could hope for.
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