I asked that people keep the debate to the ATMB thread for a very simple reason. This thread and others like it have shown that a small number of people will jump into the thread and repeatedly make the same arguments, just using different stupid analogies each time, until the well is well and truly poisoned.
Consider it like a polling booth. We did not need people hanging around outside it making snide remarks and trying to influence voters. No problem whatsoever though with people coming out of the booth and saying what way they voted and why.
Its worth noting though, I never asked any mods to enforce anything, and I think the first warning given out was extremely harsh.
As for the poll itself, I very intentionally wanted to be as basic as possible. Seemed to me that in all the threads like this nobody had formally asked what should have been the very first question, “Do you want avatars?”. The first page of this thread alone talks about the majority of the board not wanting avatars, but your more specific poll from last year wasnt answering that question. In my simpler poll, if ninety percent of people had voted yes perhaps we would have a very different debate than all this “but its optional innit rollseyes” bullshit.