Reichu wrote:robersora, if my post was "lashing out", I'd say we're very much in danger of becoming the worst kind of "hug-box".
It was mostly completely besides the point that I was trying to make, and included some rather...strange...leap of logic that appeared to suggest that I somehow am part of an in-group of people tolerating certain types of avatars, and therefore more likely to condone such behaviour. Which, as robersora rightly points out, could be construed as a personal attack.
My comment was just an observation on how something could have been solved with quite less drama than what transpired. To make a comparison with real life, if you see someone pasting a poster to a wall where it's not allowed, would you call for a S.W.A.T. van to bust the person, or would you tell them nicely to stop with what they're doing?
Dima wrote:2) derailing threads going completely off topic
This isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, most of the more pleasant forums I read allow this, while the ones that are more tightly moderated when it comes to topic are generally more of a shithole (because the mods tend to be perceived as tyrannic or they genuinely seem to be ego-tripping). I've also seen one major forum go from "quite pleasant" to "loads of bickering and users leaving" because a newer mod managed to convince the others to enforce strict topic-moderation. As long as the threads end up back on topic, a little bit of derailing is not bad...
