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#1 2012-03-02 15:51:51
hey mods!
Dear mods,
Please for the love of god just let us post and stop coming down like a ton a bricks and closing the thread whenever anyone ever goes even slightly off topic of gets into a heated discussion. A heated discussion is NOT a flamewar, or even flaming, it's a heated discussion about two people who have different opinions. And as for the off topic threads getting closed instantly, most threads on most forums are about 45% on topic and 55% on topic. Since these forums have a lot of kids, it's about 40% on topic and 60% off topic, off topic posts are, in my opinion not a good reason to close the thread UNLESS they have offensive/inappropriate content. I really hope I don't get banned for this, because all this is is a (ranting) post about what I think you guys need to stop doing and fix. Also because I often get into a heated discussion about whatever and the thread get closed halfway through.
Thanks for reading this,
ATVR9999
I know I'm eventually going to get banned, but I'm going to ride out on a endless, shining wave of logic.
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#2 2012-03-02 15:58:06
- Codebreaker
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2011-10-03
- Posts: 100+
Re: hey mods!
You can report your post, which will make a mod come look at it, probably.
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#4 2012-03-02 16:28:10
- Paddle2See
- Scratch Team
- Registered: 2007-10-27
- Posts: 1000+
Re: hey mods!
We've found that when topics are allowed to wander too far off-topic, it becomes spammy and too much of a circus. So we try to keep things on track.
As for heated discussion - it's fine to have a discussion, as long as people are acting respectfully towards each other. However, if things become insulting or trollish, we usually act pretty quickly to put a stop to it. From past experience, though, we've found that certain topics are extremely sensitive and tend to generate strong emotions that often lead to a bad result. To keep the moderation work load manageable, those topics (Religion, Politics, etc.) have been ruled "out of bounds" and are not permitted in the Scratch Forums.
Meanwhile - why is this posted in Things I'm Reading and Playing? It's clearly none of those. I'll move it to Suggestions since it sounds like you are suggesting a change to our moderation policies. Please post more carefully in the future.
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#5 2012-03-02 16:32:30
- RedRocker227
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- Registered: 2011-10-26
- Posts: 1000+
Re: hey mods!
TBH a heated discussion is a flamewar.
Why
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#7 2012-03-02 17:28:21
- GameHutSoftware
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2010-04-24
- Posts: 1000+
Re: hey mods!
youre new here
i can smell it
Lurking more than posting, but still here.
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#9 2012-03-02 17:44:57
- RedRocker227
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2011-10-26
- Posts: 1000+
Re: hey mods!
Luke121 wrote:
GameHutSoftware wrote:
youre new here
i can smell iti c wut u did there
I don't ._.
Why
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#10 2012-03-02 17:47:43
Re: hey mods!
Well some topics are closed because the owner said they wanted it to become closed. Or because the topic is to old.
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#11 2012-03-02 17:54:35
- Agentpieface
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- Registered: 2009-10-10
- Posts: 1000+
Re: hey mods!
RedRocker227 wrote:
Luke121 wrote:
GameHutSoftware wrote:
youre new here
i can smell iti c wut u did there
I don't ._.
neither 
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