Wednesday, February 19, 2003
The Hall of Flame and Shame
Posted by Jason Dunn in "UPDATE" @ 01:21 PM
We've decided to launch a read-only forum where we'll move most flaming/off-topic posts rather than deleting them (certain posts will still be deleted). I've seen this happening more and more lately: great discussions being derailed by flaming or random off-topic babbling. I'd much rather have a visitor come to this site and read a thread with useful comments on Pocket PC GPS systems than a discussion on the use of the word "esquire". We have an off-topic forum for a reason folks. ;-)
Some thread lend themselves naturally to being goofy, so we're not going to enforce this with an iron fist on every thread, but it really disappoints me when a useful discussion becomes a threatening place for newbies to speak up in because it's turned into a flame war. It's even worse when I contribute to the flames! :oops: I think this will be a good reality check to some people if they see a good portion of their posts being moved into that forum.
The majority of the moving of posts will be done by our community moderator, Steven Cedrone, and not even the admins on the site are above being Hall of Flame and Shame inductees (as you'll see from the what's there so far). :lol:
Some thread lend themselves naturally to being goofy, so we're not going to enforce this with an iron fist on every thread, but it really disappoints me when a useful discussion becomes a threatening place for newbies to speak up in because it's turned into a flame war. It's even worse when I contribute to the flames! :oops: I think this will be a good reality check to some people if they see a good portion of their posts being moved into that forum.
The majority of the moving of posts will be done by our community moderator, Steven Cedrone, and not even the admins on the site are above being Hall of Flame and Shame inductees (as you'll see from the what's there so far). :lol:
