RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
December 31, 2017 at 4:14 pm
(This post was last modified: December 31, 2017 at 4:15 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(December 31, 2017 at 4:07 pm)Shell B Wrote: In what way is that worse? People who are disrupting the thread, which we certainly were, can’t post so other people can. I prefer less moderation, but I think it’s way worse to delete threads than it is to remove flaming parties.
It's worse because at least banning the thread for everyone is less exclusionary.
The people who end up insulting each other in an emotionally charged thread are going to be the ones who actually care about the topic the most, hence why they are getting emotionally charged about it. We're going to make every thread boring as fuck if we kick people out of threads whenever they get emotionally charged. We'll be left only with the people who aren't even that invested in the goddamn topic.
The fact that insults are irrelevant is exactly why they shouldn't be taken so seriously. It's only worth taking seriously if people are actually flaming. That's why the no flaming rule is a no flaming rule and not a "no insult" rule.
If this is the direction AF is going then we'd be better off moving half the sub-forums to R'lyeh because that will be the only part of the forum left that isn't a Safe Space and at least half of AF involves emotionally charged topics.
