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Policy Changes: How do you feel?
Chiana:
--- Quote from: paynesgrey on July 02, 2010, 05:54:41 AM ---Actually the big thing is that Jim himself wants this to be a pleasant venue. Relaxed and friendly, where misfits can feel comfortable and mellow and nobody has to fumble for their blood pressure pills. The Be Nice Rule starts not with Iago, but with The Man Himself.
Accorded Neutral Territory, just like this bar Jim writes about.
--- End quote ---
This is exactly what I like about the forum and how I hope it can continue to be!
Priscellie:
Yup. Since the changes have been implemented, the overwhelming majority of locked threads have been time-related, as PG mentions. We want to keep the board lightweight to run and minimize downtime.
Generally, we won't lock a thread because one poster made a political joke. It's only when we feel a thread has been so derailed into TT territory or bitter sniping that there's no going back, and it would just be simpler to clear the air by locking the existing thread and asking folks to create a new one. When this happens, a mod will pretty much always post and explain the situation.
If a thread is locked without explanation, it's almost certainly a time-related locking.
Noey:
Some of it might also be explained by the OP locking the thread. I've seen that happen a few times, when for various reasons the OP felt the thread was done with and explained it in a last post. So, when a thread is locked, it might've been the original poster instead of a mod, for whatever reason explained or unexplained that got into the OP's head.
Paynesgrey:
Ammended my post to clarify and reflect what Prisc said... If you start a political thread, it'll die. If you add a political or otherwise TT to a thread, your specific post will get a visit from the Snip Fairey. Whole threads only get the grinch if they've degenerated into unsalvagable battlegrounds.
horsehearted:
FREEEEEEEEEEEDDDOOOOOOOOOOOMM!
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