We can discuss this until we're blue in the face, and either way, the same thing happens. The Mods do what they want to do. Period. It's obvious not everyone gets along. That's normal in any large (or small!) group of people. We, as humans, don't like everyone we meet.
What I have seen mostly is that the boards with true information on them (STF the 2nd Tuesday of Next week, GIANT PANDAS MEETING TONIGHT) and information on teams etc, stay FOR THE MOST PART unjacked. Unless the endless pages of "count me in" counts as jacking.
I haven't had a problem finding INFORMATION on the protector board (the main boards is a completely different story tho), or Lohr's pvp threads, or meeting threads etc. I mean, THOSE are the information threads, right?
So if the other threads, which are often started for silliness anyway, get jacked. WHO CARES? As long as the censors pick up the foul language, there's not TRUE flaming, etc, etc. Who cares? I mean ultimately, that's been the gripe: we can't find info because of the jacking.
It's simple, if the person who started the thread asks PLEASE DON'T THREADJACK (nicely) this is important to me, and it's an INFORMATION THREAD --- DON'T DO IT. Easy peasy. If you want to peeve this person off, do it in game or PRIVATELY.
If it's a goofy thread, and they say "don't threadjack", particularly if aimed at certain persons/groups, well... ya' get what ya' get.
I originally came to these boards to hang out and get to know other people because my (new) SG is so freakin' small, all my old friends quit playing CoX, and I'm trying not to be such a loner.
I don't give a rats behind who hates who or why. That's personal between so & so and whomever. I like people based on what I see of them here and in-game (PMs emails, etc). All we have to communicate with each other here are WORDS... and as we all know, words without (voice) inflection can be grossly misconstrued.
Even here, where we are supposed to civilly discuss it, we get (subtley, and I don't name names or point fingers) "IT'S YOUR FAULT!" no "IT'S YOUR FAULT" naya naya naya. Good grief.
It's really simple people, don't threadjack the information threads. Play nice.. and if you can't play nice, take it private. No one here wants to listen to the flaming public gripe session between two (or 4 or groups) of people. We all get enough of that garbage out of the box (computer).
Mods, don't give us a thread specifically to threadjack and then modsmack it. That's just assinine. We've got two good threadjack threads right now (Stalker Report/Have Fun Here) that we keep going. Let's keep it there unless someone makes one SPECIFICALLY to allow open silliness & discussion (the rating system would work here).
As for the "protector is better than other forums". Well, the other forums don't matter when we are playing here. We are discussing the protector board, and that's all. That's all we were asked to discuss. WE weren't asked to chime in about other boards (not that anyone's listening to that anyway). Stick to just our board in this "discussion".
And like I said at the beginning, they (the Mods) are going to do, what they are going to do, regardless of how much people "discuss" on this board. So stop arguing, already. The Mods will tell us how they are gonna handle it when they are good and ready, and we'll adapt or leave.
*shrugs* I mean, there are obviously people here brighter than me that can start message boards of their own, and lock out who they want and what discussions they want. So if you can't do what you want here, try that.
Oh, and HAPPY THURSDAY TO EVERYONE ON THE PROTECTOR BOARDS.
*walks out and slams door on this thread*
