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2012/02/07 22:18:13
Subject: When to lock threads with external links.
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Most Glorious Grey Seer
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Typically in the tutorial or Painting & Miniature Showcase forums, you may hit a thread which immediately has a link to the poster's personal blog hosted on some external site. I would like to recommend these threads be quickly locked and allowed to die in obscurity.
This wouldn't need to apply to each and every thread with an external link and stuff like links in signatures should be allowed, but when I go to a tutoral post or a showcase post, I wan't to see the stuff right there, not be given a link to a blog that may or may not work.
This would be situational and need to be taken on a case by case basis but it would help.
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2012/02/07 22:19:22
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2012/02/08 00:28:45
Subject: When to lock threads with external links.
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Servoarm Flailing Magos
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I agree. If they want to post it on dakka they should c&p it and have a link to their blog at the bottom.
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2012/02/08 02:52:14
Subject: When to lock threads with external links.
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Lady of the Lake
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Well it is actually against the showcase rules so those should be locked. I agree though, I don't click on a thread to just click a link to a random blog somewhere.
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2012/02/08 03:09:55
Subject: When to lock threads with external links.
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Madrak Ironhide
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I think we just move them to P&M
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2012/02/08 04:06:33
Subject: When to lock threads with external links.
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Most Glorious Grey Seer
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To be honest, I don't even want them there. The purpose of a thread in these forums is to show off your work and have it praised/critiqued/ignored by the rest of us. Linking to your own site and saying, "Come see what I did" isn't really supporting that. I mean, are we supposed to go look at your blog then come back to Dakka and post comments? That's silly.
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2012/02/08 04:11:41
Subject: When to lock threads with external links.
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Madrak Ironhide
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If people want comments, content in the post will be more likely
to bump such posts than links to blogs. So right now we move
linked to blog posts to painting and modeling.
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