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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1187320" data-attributes="member: 10201">You've hit a hot button of mine: i find the "ohmigod, they're fighting--stop it!" moderation standard here to be much less mature than on RPGNet.  IMHO, closing a thread when tempers flare, rather than letting the people actually deal with the consequences of their flaming and possibly work it out is immature--it smacks of babysitting.  People here are mostly adults, and can walk away if they don't want to participate--there's no need to protect us from ourselves when it's only words.  Sure, RPGNet has more drawn-out flamewars as a result.  Sure RPGNet also sometimes closes down threads when they get to heated--but their standard of "too heated" is a lot hotter.  And i'm regularly frustrated by threads on EnWorld that get closed just as the interesting parts begin to get debated.  It's no coincidence--usually, the really interesting bits are also the ones that push people's buttons, so a thread that generates controversial discussion is likely to also have at least a few participants go over the edge.  Doesn't mean the rest of us can't ignore them and continue our discussion.OK, venting over.  I've been meaning to say something about this for some time--every time a thread is closed just as i finally find it getting really interesting--because that seems to be when almost inevitably a few participants forget to play nice.</blockquote>