Rule Changes + New Restrictions

[Angrboda]

Thank you. Your candor is appreciated, by me if by no one else.

Sure. And BTW, this is nothing new. I noted in my third post in this thread that the board can do what it wants, and I just posted because I found it interesting:

I've made it clear before and now reiterate that the owners of a site have every right to do with it as they please. Just interesting that you go through the charade of rules which really amount to nothing.

People who are guessing at my motivations aren't reading what I've actually said.

I've got a more substantive comment, but don't feel like working it at the moment. As humans, a social animal, we use our built-in "theory of [other people's] mind" to negotiate our environment, because our environment is filled with bodies that have minds, and their behavior can be more successfully predicted by having a model and theory of what they are thinking inside themselves. Speculating on motives is a natural part of this, as motives often explain behavior, thus making such speculation an effective cognitive shortcut, to, say, 'asking' or just 'talking'. But it's also very natural for people to believe their theory about another's motives is fact, and then committing or over-committing on the basis of that error. Please forgive them, Lord. They know not what they do.