The Firing Line Forums

Go Back   The Firing Line Forums > Forum Support > Site Questions and Tech Support (NO FIREARMS QUESTIONS)

Closed Thread
 
Thread Tools
Old July 16, 2013, 05:58 PM   #1
17ghk
Member
 
Join Date: December 16, 2007
Location: austintown, ohio
Posts: 45
why is my thread closed

Unless I am mistaken this is a shooting forum. A sport which is defended by the NRA and to not support them by killing my thread is crap! Is there nowhere here to post this poll or is it not at all welcome? I dont come hear much but when I post these polls people pm me with a thank you.
__________________
HOCKEY ABOVE ALL

Last edited by Frank Ettin; July 16, 2013 at 07:29 PM. Reason: delete accronym containing profanity
17ghk is offline  
Old July 16, 2013, 06:01 PM   #2
CowTowner
Senior Member
 
Join Date: October 17, 2007
Location: Cowtown of course!
Posts: 1,314
My guess would be due to the follow post found in the rules section of this forum:

Quote:
Links to Polls
Any post/Thread that links to ineffectual and useless online petitions will be closed or deleted on sight.

Instead, if you really think the topic is worth action, contact your State and Federal Congresspeople with an email, tweet or real letter. See Sandy Hook Shooting: Read First in the L&CR forum for details on how to contact your Federal Representatives and Senators.
__________________
NRA Chief Range Safety Officer, Home Firearm Safety and Pistol Instructor
"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."
Leonardo da Vinci
CowTowner is offline  
Old July 16, 2013, 06:12 PM   #3
17ghk
Member
 
Join Date: December 16, 2007
Location: austintown, ohio
Posts: 45
oh useless is it? whatever
__________________
HOCKEY ABOVE ALL
17ghk is offline  
Old July 16, 2013, 06:30 PM   #4
BigD_in_FL
Junior member
 
Join Date: December 20, 2012
Location: The "Gunshine State"
Posts: 1,981
Why not add something substantial to the thread to make it viable if you feel so strongly about it
BigD_in_FL is offline  
Old July 16, 2013, 07:15 PM   #5
tirod
Senior Member
 
Join Date: January 21, 2009
Posts: 1,258
Polls are ineffective because nothing happens after they are published - except for a big yawn and "So what?" If the results agree with your opinion, fine, if not, it's a wakeup call either you or they don't have all the facts.

In that regard, what else is new?

The White House polls are just as effective - and shut down when the answer goes against their agenda. Since no one is obligated to do anything about the results of the poll, the effort could be directed to something else - like writing your reps, sending donations to the organization that furthers your view, campaigning for a candidate that supports your views.

Instead of working for poll results, work for election results, which have a much larger influence.

That's the long explanation of above, and why most forums would do well to eliminate "polls." But, some think it's needed so their members can figure out what is more popular and how to think, rather than come up with their own analysis and decide for themself.

Yeah, chalk me up on the side of "polls are waste of time and bandwidth."
tirod is offline  
Old July 16, 2013, 07:22 PM   #6
Brian Pfleuger
Staff
 
Join Date: June 25, 2008
Location: Central, Southern NY, USA
Posts: 18,791
If for no other reason, your post is a classic "drive-by cut and paste" and is explicitly against forum rules.

The most obvious way to get an answer to your question, if the closing post left by the moderator wasn't enough, is to send a PM to the moderator who closed the thread rather than asking on the open forum.
__________________
Still happily answering to the call-sign Peetza.
---
The problem, as you so eloquently put it, is choice.
-The Architect
-----
He is no fool who gives what he can not keep to gain what he can not lose.
-Jim Eliott, paraphrasing Philip Henry.
Brian Pfleuger is offline  
Closed Thread

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:30 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2015, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
This site and contents, including all posts, Copyright © 1998-2015 S.W.A.T. Magazine
Copyright Complaints: Please direct DMCA Takedown Notices to the registered agent: thefiringline.com
Contact Us
Page generated in 0.07190 seconds with 9 queries
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5583942
thefiringline.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2015-06
60774
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:656EUPTXYWYDBQMDSOETHPHMCZFZPG6P
<urn:uuid:754b7bbf-831f-45b2-bd88-d8af115a8dbe>
2015-02-01T01:30:29Z
162.243.102.188
sha1:O6LGYYW763VYICYFIUCE4ZTL7F5UKLOI
<urn:uuid:d9cdd055-88b9-4eb7-aae3-12e84510ec67>
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5583942
response
<urn:uuid:6fbce9a9-69a7-47ff-8e12-6ffc84bb602b>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-06
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for January 2015
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf