To everyone else — reading the forums of late has necessitated a change to the editorial policy.
Up until now, the policy has been that anything goes on the forums.
The new policy is the same as the old policy, except with this addendum: don’t abuse the policy.
This is a bit subjective but hopefully it makes sense. Repeated and needless personal attacks and (especially) starting rumors about people’s personal lives, ie behavior such as that exhibited by Marion as well as everyone’s other favorite banned poster, is obviously an abuse of the hands-off approach.
I will also call out the overly frequent posting of outrageously-titled political threads with the obvious intent to start a fight (take note, jficquette).
I think the hands off policy works well as long as it doesn’t get abused. So let’s make sure it doesn’t get abused any more. Spread the word.
