Gotta throw down with Ensorceled. New forum with a sticky, locked post at the top spelling out clear rules of behaviour, then strict enforcement of those rules. Gives a place for these kinds of discussion but also some leeway for mods to act to maintain some order and sanity.
Then just forget about cleanup. Dump the old one. Drain the swamp, as they say.
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Honestly, there's not currently a lot of appetite for bringing it back to the forums in any form right now.
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Thankyou, Jen. Here's hoping we stop asking cause this is the response I needed from the Mod Crew.
we took a poll. the amount of apathy over reinstating it was staggering.
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
I think you should have one thread, like the Rage Cage, call it the Think Tank, and let people dump their political rantings onto that one thread, no holes barred (so to speak).
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The Think Tank was not erotic, or romantic, nor was it positive.
heheh,
I hate to say I told ya so...(in 2010)
Not you, Buz...
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The Think Tank was not erotic, or romantic, nor was it positive.
There's a lot on Lush Stories that's neither of that, but we're told not to kink shame 😜
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There are thousands of political blogs online where people can hate one another. Why muck up an erotic site with that?
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There are thousands of political blogs online where people can hate one another.
True, and yet some would like to discuss politics and other stuff here.
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And some would rather it happened elsewhere. There was nothing more disheartening than coming in, clicking New Posts, and finding five threads of The Think Tank mob sniping at each other at or near the top of the list. If they had been useful, productive discussions of politics and world affairs, as tends to happen on other boards I am on, fine. But half the time, if I bothered to look, it was just same BS from the same people over and over. So why tie up mod time dealing with crap like that? If the Politics forum on my site was like that, I'd shut it down and ban political discussion in a trice. As it is, I have sometimes been dismayed with the tone of discussion in that forum.
So I don't blame the administration for wanting to be done with The Think Tank and I certainly don't miss it. I have too many other places to go for that kind of alleged discussion.
If they do bring it back, I hope they can adjust the filters on New Posts (or let us create our own filters) to remove Think Tank threads.
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So why tie up mod time dealing with crap like that?
The idea of the Think Tank was that mods wouldn't be dealing with it all that much.
So I don't blame the administration for wanting to be done with The Think Tank and I certainly don't miss it.
No one made you go into the Think Tank of course.
If they do bring it back, I hope they can adjust the filters on New Posts (or let us create our own filters) to remove Think Tank threads.
That sounds like a good plan to me. Not sure about the new Lush, but in the old Lush some threads were filtered out of the latest posts section, if I recall correctly.
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The idea of the Think Tank was that mods wouldn't be dealing with it all that much.
The reality of it was that we were dealing with it quite a bit - and when we didn't, we'd get bitched out for it.
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
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The reality of it was that we were dealing with it quite a bit - and when we didn't, we'd get bitched out for it.
I wonder by whom, as it said on the tin that it wouldn't be actively moderated.
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It's not coming back for the foreseeable. End of.
