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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1255101" data-attributes="member: 1">Hoax brought this to my attention. I don&#039;t know who wrote those moderator rules but I&#039;ve been doing this since 1999 and also admin another fairly busy forum. The author either has 1 fairly inactive forum or their world is like the following:<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/fantasysmiley.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":fantasysmiley:" title="Fantasysmiley&nbsp; &nbsp; :fantasysmiley:" data-shortname=":fantasysmiley:" />This is part of my response regarding those rules in our mod&#039;s private forum:All threads should be kept on topic? That means that we have to read all the threads? That&#039;s not going to happen.Maybe I&#039;m just lazy, but keeping all the threads on topic on a forum that&#039;s this busy sounds like too much work. That and the fact that the terms have always said that we cannot be expected to read all of the content posted here.Maybe we could start a new thing where the thread starter can control their own thread. If someone starts a thread with &quot;on topic&quot; tag in the name of their thread then they can report off topic posts and we can move off topic posts into an off topic thread.There was a techie forum that I frequented quite a while ago. Every time a thread would become more of a conversation and it would go &quot;off topic&quot; the admin would start deleting posts. That created a good catalog of targeted information but by eliminating all of the naturally evolving conversations there wasn&#039;t much of a sense of community</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1255101, member: 1"] Hoax brought this to my attention. I don't know who wrote those moderator rules but I've been doing this since 1999 and also admin another fairly busy forum. The author either has 1 fairly inactive forum or their world is like the following: :fantasysmiley: This is part of my response regarding those rules in our mod's private forum: All threads should be kept on topic? That means that we have to read all the threads? That's not going to happen. Maybe I'm just lazy, but keeping all the threads on topic on a forum that's this busy sounds like too much work. That and the fact that the terms have always said that we cannot be expected to read all of the content posted here. Maybe we could start a new thing where the thread starter can control their own thread. If someone starts a thread with "on topic" tag in the name of their thread then they can report off topic posts and we can move off topic posts into an off topic thread. There was a techie forum that I frequented quite a while ago. Every time a thread would become more of a conversation and it would go "off topic" the admin would start deleting posts. That created a good catalog of targeted information but by eliminating all of the naturally evolving conversations there wasn't much of a sense of community [/QUOTE]

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