Why was the 'Why was the Welsh Thread closed' thread closed?

[MOBIUS]

That was a valid question, which was then closed out of hand with a pretty appalling excuse I might add.

I would actually appreciate a proper answer to this, especially in light of Ming's Chicago meet antics of the other day...

Please kindly discuss this without immediately resorting to closing the thread out of hand.

This isn't a spam thread, but actually an attempt to address something that has been increasingly getting on my nerves...

Ddiolch 'ch , 'm Groegwr chyfaill

[MarkG]

if you want to address a serious issue, dont bring up excuses. get to the point, directly

[Dauphin]

Does it really matter?

Twll dîn pob Sais.

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by MarkG
if you want to address a serious issue, dont bring up excuses. get to the point, directly

I did already - but you haven't answered.

Those are not excuses, merely a tool to stop you from closing threads out of hand without stopping to think about your actions...

[MarkG]

what was the serious issue? the closing of an idiotic complaint thread for the closure of an idiotic thread?

[trickey]

Can't you clearly see the answer to this is to abandon your apolyton account? That will surely cripple this site and force them to give into your demands

[JimmyCracksCorn]

How was my complaint idiotic MarkG? Please answer this.

And I still have yet to hear a valid reason for why a perfectly valid thread was closed for no reason.

MarkG, are you under the impression that Welsh is a phony language? I'm not being a smartass, just I can understand since Welsh is a small language that maybe a Greek has never heard of it. Wales is part of the United Kingdom which is a member of the EU, just like your home state of Greece.

The official website for the government of Wales is located here:

http://www.wales.gov.uk/index.htm

No, seriously, I'm not condescending... I'm being perfectly reasonable. If Bods had started a Pig Latin thread, I could see why Mark might want that closed, and if he thought Welsh was fake, maybe thats why he closed it? But Welsh is a real language, and seeing as Bods lives in Wales its absolutely legitimate for him to start a thread about Welsh.

If I had started a thread about Greek, even though I don't speak it, am not greek and live in Canada, I'm willing to bet my life MarkG would not have closed it.

Does that not make sense?

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
Does it really matter?

Twll dîn pob Sais.

Of course it matters, you should always question everything.

I realize that MarkG runs the site and can do whatever he wants, and I dont think he owes me an answer as owner of this site, but he does owe me an answer as a human being who has asked an unimposing and perfectly legitimate question about something I think is discriminatory and unfair.

Themâu a Strategaethau!

[Frozzy]

Well, I think what happened is Markos has gotten tired of telling people that no foreign language threads are allowed on Apolyton, and didn't realise Jimmy is a recent member...

[MarkG]

you said you have lurked on the forums for some time now Jimmy. so you probably should know that non-english threads are not welcome. so when someone with admitedly limited knowledge of welsh wants to start a welsh thread for no other given reason but to write in welsh, i label it as spam.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by MarkG
you said you have lurked on the forums for some time now Jimmy. so you probably should know that non-english threads are not welcome. so when someone with admitedly limited knowledge of welsh wants to start a welsh thread for no other given reason but to write in welsh, i label it as spam.

Ok, thats a valid reason. However, I never knew that because I've seen many other such threads such as finnish and swedish threads which were all posted in their respective languages.

What gives with those? I'm sure many other people will attest to having seen non-English threads that were not closed.

[notyoueither]

The Finns seem to have an exemption, since they were arguably the first. That is how it goes. The rule seems to be that they were 'first' so they can have their threads. Others would be copy cats, and so are not allowed.

OTOH, there have been some threads that have wandered into other languages that I have not seen closed. They were not started as other language threads. Maybe they just fell below the raydar. I think the owners and the mods will cut slack, so long as they think they can. When you push it, they pounce. Bods pushes it. He always does, and always has.

Now the others can flame me for my attempt to express an understanding for why the powers that be excercise the powers they have.

*Asbestos on*

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn

Themâu a Strategaethau!

Themes and strategies for what?

[Skanky Burns]

NYE covered it pretty well.

The Finns get their language thread because of a grandfather clause. Their language thread was already in existance before the rule was introduced.

[H Tower]

and of course the spanish speakers aren't bothered because they have their own forum and hosted website.