Quote:Why not have a debate and discussion forum?
And a general forum?
And a general about QB forum?
And a...
Err...
(No pun intended towards Sumo)
There was a debate/discussion forum, it was called general.
Just to be clear, what are we supposed to talk about, in general, in the general forum?
What we had for lunch?
Or, the überc00l new P4 with hyperthreading? (or is that a sensitive topic)
Either make this a PURE QB forum, or make some very, very, very, clear rules.
Like: "Only post stupid braindead things in the general section."
You claim you don't allow people to talk "freely" (some limits might be needed, but not really, but if you want them, sure) because that will scare potential new visitors/people away?
Ohh, so... you want to live in a harsch dictatorship where freespeech doesen't exist, and you get banned for complaining?
Democracy - Dictatorship
What's this forum? A closed down, inner circle/elite ruled, dictated forum.
Or a free, happy, flourishing free for all forum?
BTW, can I snap too? [imagine random link to child porn site here]
It's ok, I just snapped, this is a perfectly valid discussion, but I snapped so [another link]
If admins go above the rules, then other people will stop listening.
If you lock a topic and claim it's because of the rules, then don't go about and change the rules after you've locked the topic.
You changed the General Forum description AFTER posting in the thread saying it was out of line.
You say this is a QB only forum, then make it one, remove everything non-QB.. that's:
General
Art & Music
General Programming
Site/Forum Issues (that's not QB, so why have it, people can PM.)
You say that harsh rules are needed. They are not. Just look at TBN (This is an example, I'm not bringing this into this discussion, don't debate my chooise to use TBN here)
And if you want a pure forum, feel free to have a look at the Novix forum (
http://www.Novix.tk) pure Novix.
It's not that hard, make it happen if you really want it.
But don't change rules, lock topics (even if they are ok) jump members for doing something that you personally don't like, aso.
Grow up. You're admins, you should act as examples for the entire forum. You're not allowed to snap, make misstakes and so on. If you do them anyways you shouldn't be admins.
Imagine a general making the misstake of sending 10'000 close ragne, light armed troops against 1'000 heavy armored tanks.
I don't think he would stay general for long, do you?