Originally posted by caltour:So, why the secrecy, Lance? What good does it do for you to shut down a forum without telling anyone exactly why you did it? All that does is ensure that whoever went over the line will not know what they did wrong. No lessons will be learned, no improvements in behavior will occur. When you shut down a forum because of the misbehavior of a few people, you only encourage an atmosphere of randomness and anarchy.
Originally posted by infuryum:If anyone remembers, it was this EXACT same issue which had me upset two autumns ago. The disbandment of a forum with NO clear reason why. No matter how hard I tried, NO ONE would tell me WHY the Off-Topic forum was gone. They, in addition to the owner, simply took the stance of "don't ask and leave it alone."
Yesterday, Fat Mike posted a thread about going to protest Laura Bush and he was threatened and he was a hero blah blah blah. Turned into a typical CEG quasi-debate including flaming and name-calling.
Not long after, someone else started a thread about Laura Bush coming to their home. This thread consisted almost completely of posts that contained nothing but repeated quotes of blank space -- that was very cool.
After Christy locked that one, someone else (I believe PackRat) started a thread about Laura Croft coming to their house. I didn't quite see everything in this thread, but what I saw was dumb and not within forum guidelines.
That's the stupid crap that resulted in CI being removed. No more "secrecy".
