Wiztopia wrote:NERVUN wrote:After listening to the posts here in this thread and discussion amongst the Mods, we'd like to propose the following changes for General to you all to see if this comes close to what you think would help get more social life and a tighter community to NSG.
1. Social threads will be back in General as long as they lead to some kind of discussion OR are aimed at General. What this means is that silly news, what's your favorite X, and the like will be acceptable as well as threads like Sexiest NSG'er. Threads that are chat threads (Such as the Bistro), game threads, rate the X above, and RPs will still call F7 home. We're going to try to use the OP's original placement as a guide, but we still might move threads that obviously seem out of place.
2. Pictures will be back in General as long as they are somewhat relevant to the discussion (In other words not just pics for pics sake) and spoiler'ed (Especially when quoting (And please note Ard is threatening much violence in this case)). Memes are still forbidden.
In other words, randomly postingwill make us all
3. We will relax the rules on gravedigs to allow a shelf life of 3 months as long as the post does add to the discussion and the topic itself is not one of NSG's Greatest Hits. For example, posts such as "Me too" or "I disagree" without much elaboration would still be considered a gravedig. Posts that address a previous post and expand would not (I.e. I agree, but I think that we need to look at X, Y, and Z because...). Posts that do expand but are in a topic that comes up constantly in General (Such as abortion) will be still considered a gravedig as chances are we've got another thread on the topic already going and we really don't need 4 or 5 threads on the same topic.
Again, this is based off of what we heard from posters in this thread that they think would help General. F7 obviously isn't going anywhere and while we want to let General talk about most anything, it wouldn't be right to duplicate F7 or attempt to kill off that community as well. Hopefully this provides a balance point to keep General from JUST being serious business.
That said, as I, and the other Mods have stated, a lot of what we heard in this thread is not subject to Moderation or anything we can affect. Hopefully having more social opportunities will help, but Kat said it best that if we all want General to have a tighter community and a more welcoming one; the posters (And that includes us Mods who call General home) in General have to look to themselves and be kinder to each other.
What if somebody says "me too" but somebody else responds with an on topic post and starts a discussion?
It would be handled on a case by case basis in that regards.
In other words, depends on when we notice/gets reported. If there's an actuall discussion going on, we'll leave it open. If it's "me too", "me too", "Me too", "Hey, have you guys ever thought about..." and a few hours have passed...
It also would depend on the age of the thread. The closer we get to the shelf life, the more likely the lock in those cases.