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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 1172070" data-attributes="member: 115">Like the ban on politics and religion?  Or strictly moving media and computers posts to the correct forums? Sorry, but I just don't agree.  The only reason that this board is as... tame, as it were, is because from almost day one posts on politics and religion have been enforced, strictly.  For example, the whole flag icon/avatar deal way back when.  That was causing all sorts of problems and that was just a minor thing. In fact, there's already some precedent for strict rules - one Hivemind thread on the main page, for instance.  There's no reason a "General Announcements" thread couldn't be started, and all of that is in one place.  What has happened time and again is the moderators will come down on OT posting, and then gradually more and more people will start posting OT stuff.  Eventually it reaches a point where the moderators have to step in again, and we're back to square one. Self-regulating only works if we really are self-regulating.  We are to a certain extent, but not enough for the mods to just let stuff go on with no interference.  That logic I can't argue with.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  On the one hand, I agree.  P&P doesn't really get all that much traffic, and really those types of posts are best with more people replying to them.  And it is definitely a fuzzy line as to the difference between General and P&P. On the other hand, if you were more diligent in moving threads to P&P, then perhaps traffic would pick up a bit there.  Hey, there might even be room for more OT threads. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> (Personal Rant)This really ties into the self-regulating thing above.  One of the biggest tells that we're barely self-regulating, IMO, is the amount of stuff in General that should have been posted in the first place.  People don't bother to go to the other forums specifically because they know they get less traffic - even the Media and Computer forums, which have a lot of regulars!  They often times don't use the tags, which were made so people could sort stuff easier. I mean, all it would really take to fix General is consistent use of the OT tag, and the ability to ignore any messages with that tag.  Whether that's a part of the message board software, I don't know.  But that way, you only see the threads you want to see, and have no need to complain.</blockquote>

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