Hello, fine users of PFA.
I have been thinking a lot about how this forum has looked lately, and I have made a few decisions regarding trolling on this site. This will not affect most of you, but hopefully will go a long way toward making the site more readable.
- I will be deleting posts in serious or semi-serious threads which are meant just to troll certain individuals, and are not on topic. So if you're calling someone a moron because you disagree with them (and you explain why), your post will stand. If you are bashing someone just because you don't like them, I will delete your post.
- If you continue to troll in the thread after I delete your post, I will remove your ability to post in the thread (I have that ability now).
- Please do not troll/ruin threads just because they are started by people you don't like. So for example, I know that a lot of you don't like MumblesBadly. However, if he starts a thread about a reasonable topic, please don't ruin it just because you enjoy pissing him off. This applies to everyone here, not just Mumbles.
- I will be giving temporary posting bans to people who make a lot of shitposts within a short time (as I recently did with garrett).
- If people start intentionally controversial or stupid threads, I won't be deleting any messages within, unless they violate one of the major PFA rules (such as personal info posting). However, I will merge threads started by the same person if they are all along the same lines. So basically I'm only looking to "clean up" the threads which are serious/semi-serious. Threads which start out as shit can remain shit, for all I care.
- For the most part, I will still be taking mostly a "hands off" moderation style here, as I have since the site started 4 years ago. I don't want to censor much here, but I also don't want this site to turn into unreadable crap, and I have been seeing it trend that way recently.
Thank you for your cooperation.