Rule Change (New Staff Power)

[Thumpalumpacus]

Yeah you're right, it's not even an issue in reality but I'm a stickler for shit like this. I'm not going to lose sleep over it but I do disagree with the whole notion of this nuclear option in principle especially when I honestly think it's irrelevant to declare it a thing. People have already essentially admitted as much by saying it will probably never be used and the staff already have such powers anyway.

So I'm sitting here, still wondering, even after all the justification, thinking "why"?

We recently had two members who would shit up threads with ugliness that did not break any rules but who regularly directed their posting at turning any thread they participated in to a thread about themselves. But the insults they meted out, and the breast-beating they engaged in, and the consistent and clearly deliberate derailing of threads, meant that they themselves were able to nuke any thread they chose. And it didn't fall under the rubric of trolling, as their posts contained enough content to provide them a fig leaf against that rule.

Ignoring them doesn't work because someone will always quote them in reply, and thus the thread gets sidetracked and ruint. I was one of those respondents with the last one, and I won't repeat that behavior again -- but you can rest assured someone will, to the detriment of the discussion.