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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
I'll preface this by saying that, obviously, what is and isn't OK for this forum is completely down to the Administration / Mod team and I'm not in any way disputing that, nor am I going to bleat on about free speech because this is obviously a privately owned website.
What I am looking for, basically, is a straight and to-the-point answer on whether or not every thread as described in the title is going to be cropped down to a few pages, or deleted completely, as soon as it gets a little heated? I appreciate that the number of post reports etc. Must get irritating but... To be blunt... I doubt it's as irritating as spending time writing several long responses in a thread only for them to vaporise.
I'm genuinely only asking so that I know for certain that the best course of action is probably to avoid writing in such threads at all or at least keep responses down to a sentence or two.
To add my tuppence worth, I think it would actually be a great shame for it to go that way, because this is the first forum I've been on in a LONG time on which people can get very heated, even personal, in one thread and g yet remain lighthearted and friendly in other threads on the same day (or even at the same time!) and it's really very refreshing.
Kind regards and with all due respect,
Toyus Soldiericus of Tibberly Rock.
Commander of the armies of the North, heir to the demon.
/ T.S.
Xox
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...sorry if this post is rushed TS..(as I should be at work right now...)...but I just wanted to say from a personal viewpoint of what you've said....
..I can completely understand when posts are removed or a thread is closed and you've taken such time to write long posts/become involved, how annoying that is...but I'm finding it also annoying if I do have an interest in a thread..?...to have to scroll back through several pages to kind of find the thread of the thread so to speak because so many threads are often taken completely off course and so derailed that they're just so hard to follow/and almost nothing to do with the original topic in some cases....and it isn't that I'm not interested in what people have to say and their thoughts on these topics but it's often the same thoughts just repeated..?...posts that don't really say much different from the previous one and the one before and the thread before etc....I think maybe when Mods clean them, this could be why..?...to make it easier to keep it all on track and easier for members to post and follow etc...it also feels quite often that it's not really debate always...not countering the thoughts and opinions of others but more making judgements on the person or people with those opinions, if you know what I mean....I sometimes feel when a thread is closed....phewww, it'll be great to discuss other topics because that was an intense experience..
... but then another race/immigration/religion etc type one seems to come and ..yeah, the same views obviously...
...and here we go again and it just doesn't give the best balance/variation and leave you really with anything much to say because you've already said it in another thread and many are so similar...(not you, I mean for me and maybe for others/I don't know..)....and also I think Iceman said, it often feels like people just wanting to get the last word and one up, type thing with each other or someone else so does that really leave it open for others to join in because their thoughts on the topic get a bit lost in all of it..../ thread derailments etc....it's all quite exhausting to follow and takes a lot of the inclination to post away...I also think that because it's quite often all repeated stuff etc..the thread gets closed because it's run it's course and just isn't 'debate' anymore and possibly hasn't been for several pages....
...anyway, that's all just my opinion and maybe another perspective of more an 'observer'....so yeah, sorry this is rushed, I just don't have a lot of time atm....