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Originally posted by Black Beauty
Of course it is. However, some rules are logical, such as DL links (illegal), nicknames that could be offensive, and other things. Offensive posts including racism and mean insults (that could be true) also should be warned. Also, I understand the moderation in the Blogs section because of reasons listed (sexual content is frowned upon by advertisers).
With that said, the mods are certainly way too strict and up tight about certain things. The new ATRL HQ rules, for example. When mods close a thread because it's "too much to moderate." In all honesty, our faves are people too; but when someone posts a thread saying "Is ________ a flop?" it's taken a little too over the edge by the mods.
I've seen people produce logical discussions when opening threads and they get closed faster than the blink of an eye. For example, Caucasians vs. African Americans / white privilege vs. black privilege. All those touchy topics. Even though people CAN get offended by some discussions, there are generally no insults on race made. Are people not strong enough to hear the truth that whites ARE more privileged than all other races? I'm white and it's a fact. My point is sometimes threads are closed way too fast with logical and relevant discussions contained in them. Of course everyone doesn't have the same opinion. This is also the internet; you can basically say whatever you want as long as it doesn't insult anyone else. Those are basically my thoughts.
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You can blame past members for that. The mods have said that threads like these more often than not get way out of hand due to trolls and immature members who can't handle such topics. They decided to just start closing them right away because they can't be constantly checking for mature conversation everytime combined with the fact that they most often get messy.
Also, the fact that this is the Internet and therefore we don't know what was intended by a member's post, it's understandable that many get warned for subtle shade and jokes. I mean how are they supposed to know if you're joking or not? There's too many stupid people on the Internet for anyone to be able to just write off a comment as a joke or as fun shade. Just my two cents.