Thread:Jackmockrock/@comment-26397550-20180814131551/@comment-26397550-20180823124345

If you've no matter to the thread at hand, then please make a new post next time. Your post implied that the warning wasn't done to your likings.

Threads are only removed for "flamebait" or "controversial" if the thread itself is written to be controversial. Very rarely do we remove threads past some creation for this unless the author of it somehow turns it into one themselves.

I don't recall any "admin" post that's controversial besides some of the super threads where people try arguing on occasion, but that's managed. If you're referring to Blitzwolfer's thread - of which was made long before he was a content mod - it was not controversial by nature, and the thread's few debates were mostly from trolls so the posts just got removed. It was only closed after people who weren't trolls tried arguing on it, plus then the matter had already transpired and wasn't much relevant to talk about anymore.

Really, the matter is not if you see it as one - it is if we do. Accusations and indirect targeted attacks at a game alongside passing opinion off as fact by tone is something we'd consider flamebait. Flamebait is sometimes unintentional, but it's really just whenever a thread is written in a way that it will 100% provoke argument or harsh debate. We'd usually be okay with debate, but...most people turn it into a flamewar or just a petty argument so we don't feel like moderating that. Kind of ties into the "[advise to] stop it before it becomes a problem" thing of moderation here.

Flamebait is also an umbrella term that kind of encompasses controversy, misinformative false opinion based (basically, an editorial trying to look like a factual article), misinformation in general (may or may not be present), possibly PA, and rants. Not necessarily that flamebait means that, but...it's basically all the requirements to be flamebait. So, whether intended or not, stuff gets removed for it.

We really don't much allow rants in general, unless it's more of a reasonable opinion piece that isn't based around pointing fingers and/or a factual piece which isn't much of a rant anyway. Kind of like a thread about clothing copying I might write up this weekend.

We don't much outright remove threads without fully taking a look at them except in one-off cases like clear reposts of removed threads or basically anything in all caps.