Around post 1397 in this thread about Harris’s VP pick, What Exit asked folk to please stop riffing on Big Lebowski.
I had not noticed any riffing coming anywhere close to derailing that thread or interfering with the conversation. I didn’t understand snowthx’s post, so I passed over it. I saw the photo of the actor, but I did not even think of it as a Lebowski reference - I just thought it was an actor who resembles Walz.
The thread now has shadowed banners over those 2 posts asking to stop the riffing. Those were latter additions, right? Because as they appear now, it sorta looks like ongoing requests were made and ignored. I’m not generally a big fan of “revising” what was previously written to reflect a later preference. I guess I understand correcting clear typos in a title or something…
Were there a series of flags from users? Or is this a mod doing what they believe is best for the board.
Of course, this is not at all a big thing. And I don’t want to suggest that I am not grateful for the hard work the mods put in. But this - and perhaps to action that gave rise to this thread - suggests to me that some mods might be keeping a tad too tight of a rein on some threads.
In ordinary conversations, people joke, and offer non sequiturs. Yet folk are able to continue to communicate effectively. Not meaning to insult the mods, but my impression is that some of you may be becoming a tad quick on the trigger. Unless I’m missing that my fellow posters have been becoming increasingly sensitive to such “interruptions” and desire more strictly confined threads.