Is the padlock being over used on the Unity forums?
Could recurring threads or topics be joined to existing topics of the same type and parked in a recurring or common topics section allowing a more open to discussion atmosphere?
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Not again. You’re really not doing yourself any favours. Although annoyed by two threads that were locked, I’m becoming more annoyed seeing your posts about it.
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Just do what I have just done click on the annoying persons avatar, then on their info panel click ignore. See I will vanish from your Unity forum experience just as you have now vanished from mine.
No need to padlock, we can simply ignore people we find annoying on the forum.
PS could you check to see if the ignore feature hides my threads from you.
Personal empowerment with freedom of speech, isn’t technology amazing!
It looks like someone is begging for a ban.
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Universally ignoring (read: ban) is also very effective.
I don’t want to ignore all of your threads. As out of just under 3000 threads I am sure 99.9% of them are useful and something I would like to read. As you’ve ignored me already though I guess I am just casting this out for the sake of it.
Yes, he’s done much the same thing to me. I still occasionally respond to them so that others may benefit. His reasoning for ignoring me though was rather amusing as he considered my statements refuting his very poor understanding of discussion topics as trolling.
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This forum is very famous for close many threads that really has not big motives to be closed, but well is the Unity forum and this is relative normal, my observation is the way of moderators to control this, really in business is not a good idea lacked respect to customers or users (that can be future clients).
Hmm, interesting png. lol Someone has too much power. 
Really gave me a nice laugh with my morning coffee though.
Some discussions are simply not appropriate to these forums. Discussions involving moderators or decisions they make need to be taken up with the administrators. This is pretty typical fare for any forum.
Part of me can understand why Unreal 4 discussions are closed. You wouldn’t go into a Wal-Mart to discuss the benefits of shopping at Target with their customers, so why would you come to the Unity forums to discuss their competition?
Another part of me though understands the benefits of such discussions. Sometimes you simply need to compare competing products in order to get your point across.
Really in many countries this is normal, inclusive in many stores if you say that in other store a product have a lower price the store down the price as a type of offer.
The Epic grants discussion was actually doing well with Hippocoder contributing himself. Some people took it too close to the line regarding pricing etc and it was closed. Disappointed? Yes. Surprised? No.
That’s not really the same though. You’re discussing a price drop with management, not the actual customers themselves.
You don’t have free speech. This is a privately run and maintained forum. You have the freedom to not post here. They have the freedom to decide which posts are relevant and allowed. Stop being childish about it.
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I use that argument all the time. 
However, in this case, no one has yet argued they have “free speech”.
This looks as a freedom excess.
This thread is basically a continuation of Arowx’s previous thread. He mentioned freedom of speech there.
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/demote-hippocoder.299650/#post-1973753
Arowx did, in his previous locked post. Just forestalling the inevitable. And now I take my leave of this thread.
is not better have only one open thread about and not many closed?
Agreed…except no one was discussing the benefits of UE4 in that thread, or if they were, they were being ignored. It was a comparison post, by me, that got the thread deleted. I feel terrible about this and have this knot in my gut. I hate being made to feel as if I did something wrong.
Now…I am emotional. Not about the product, but about being chastised like a child.
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