Well now that it’s down to a new catchphrase, I am sNUgGlyPuPpy!
Yeah, you (TPTB) knew. The vocal majority of this board responds very poorly to top down change with no warning or explanation. But you (TPTB) went ahead and did it again anyway.
If there had been an announcement that TPTB think that there’s a problem in the Pit and think some changes need to be made. Here are the reasons we want to make the changes and these are the changes we propose. Let’s discuss it before we make any changes. This thread wouldn’t exist.
Would it have gone smoothly, of course not, but you would have seen that the vast majority of posters, really interested in this, didn’t have any problems with most of what you wanted to change. We’re up to 700+ posts in this thread and I don’t think I’ve seen one complaint about Rule 3 (Which is kinda silly anyway, plenty of thread titles around here are NSFW and don’t have obscenities in them. I really don’t get the purpose of the rule myself.) or Rule 4 or Rule 5. Rule 1 makes sense, and anyway as far as I can tell, most (if not all) of our fine mods had already turned getting pitted into a joke.
There was already a rule in place that dealt with the Rule 2 problem you see Ed. All you or a mod had to do was say “PosterX what you just said about PosterY crosses the ‘Don’t be a jerk’ line, your posting privileges are under discussion” and decide on the proper punishment. (The same thing could have dealt with posts that crossed the abuse of mod line.)
The really sad thing is, some of the posters who are the targets of the worst real, personal, abuse here (the thing you want to stop) have posted in this thread, and they don’t want to be protected by you Ed.
CMC fnord!