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Seb or Nicolas....why have you closed all correspondence on my missing link thread?? I was really hoping someone would get the answer in the end - there IS a genuine answer and I was looking so forward to revealing it eventually.... Perhaps you've decide to outlaw any further "teaser-type" threads cos of the controversy they cause? Whatever the reason, you've just gone and spoiled it all now...!!
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Is Primal Scream the correct answer to your missing link question?? Is it? Is it? Is it? They wrote a song called Motörhead and we know what connection Bobby has with New Order!
What do I win?
;)
ooops just realised Primal Scream didn't write it... they recorded it for Vanishing Point though
Yeah - I was going to say Primal Scream as well, believe it or not, until I discovered some bugger had shut the topicdown to accept no further replies....talk about sheer bad timing. I mean, I'm a huge Motorhead fan, and I also like the Primals, and yes, the Primals Coverted Motorhead on Vanishing Point, so that must be the connection - after all didn't a couple of Primal Scream play on Get Ready?
Well, once again, we're trying to keep things balanced and lately there were many many threads who were just basically quizzes followed by numerous nonsense messages (think of some of your messages filled with two-page long blanks) and the thread was just going nowhere.
It was not even New Order related. Therefore, the quiz threads were locked based on this part of the Community Standards:
(excerpt)
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Intelligence – We’re a community with quality standards and expect our members will make a sincere effort to contribute their thoughts on interesting subjects in a meaningful and respectful manner. Posting messages and otherwise interacting on NewOrderOnline is completely optional; many members often prefer to just read what others have to say. But if you do post, we expect that you’ll be respectful of the time of others by posting meaningfully.
BASIC GUIDELINES
***Disruption…***Posts which intend to disrupt the topic of conversation or steer the topic away from the focus of the forum and related news. Disruption can include harassment, multiple posting of the same post and posting completely off topic messages.
(end of excerpt)
To be more practical and to cut the crap, I decided to lock it because not only of the guidelines and the fact that it wasn't really related to New Order nor that it was going nowhere, but because several users have been complaining about the fact that messages on the forum have a tendency to be about anything BUT New Order.
I understand that there ain't much activity right now to speak of NewOrderwise, but I have to consider the needs and opinions of those who come to the site and looking for New Order news or topics in a quick and efficient way (without having to read numerous threads not relating to the band).
Now I don't like to do this and to a certain extent, there,s a lack of equity because many other messages who follow the same patterns do not get locked -- and the reason for that is that they are usually by themselves, and not part of a movement of 10-15 messages of the same type.
What we are trying to avoid here is:
That non-related messages become the rule -- we want them to be the exception;
That this place becomes a private club for 5-6 individuals, scaring the other fans away.
Now if you want to complete your trivia, go ahead -- I won't close this thread, and I am not against them basically -- but please just make sure that the site doesn't turn into a "Jeopardy site", to quote Jeff White. :)
Thanks!
Seb.
Sebastien - I'm not sure if there is a fault at your end, but I'm not able to post any new threads - NO, before you ask, they're NOT new teasers!! - just a serious one about New Order's Dutch following/the music scene in general, and the ANSWER to the closed Missing Link Thread. I do hope that this is not your way of preventing me from contributing any new threads, because I've a horrible feeling it is....please tell me it isn't so!! (I'm paranoid as it is, at times...)
Originally posted by Martin Gray Sebastien - I'm not sure if there is a fault at your end, but I'm not able to post any new threads - NO, before you ask, they're NOT new teasers!! - just a serious one about New Order's Dutch following/the music scene in general, and the ANSWER to the closed Missing Link Thread. I do hope that this is not your way of preventing me from contributing any new threads, because I've a horrible feeling it is....please tell me it isn't so!! (I'm paranoid as it is, at times...)
It's definitely a general fault,I've just submitted a topic, again it's showing the same message
Yeah, for some reason, since the new forums have been installed, every thread who's initial message was tagged with an "e-mail notification" coudln't get any replies. 
This is why the website was down for almost 24 hours, because Nicolas screwed up big time by trying to fix this!!!
It has nothing to do with you, Marty! :D
Seb.
