Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-4196050-20171204000353/@comment-26397550-20171204141521

Walter Austin wrote: I don't think it was really neccessary to remove the Fun and Games thread, which is the BEST thread in the forums in my opinion. You could've just gotten more forum moderators. But oh well, this new format will be very most peculiar. It's preventing issues really. There were way too many flamewars, trolls, people not playing along, people fighting on who makes the next thread after one ends, etc. and generally we're trying to discourage people only coming here for forum games and causing problems elsewhere as they tend to disregard other policies once they start working outside of the game threads. This isn't a place dependent on a forum especially when Wikia's looking to deprecate it (instead of doing something reasonable like improving the current forums and making discussions an optional feature).

The amount in technicality wasn't really the issue. Hiring more forum moderators wouldn't have changed the core issues we kept addressing- people attacking/bullying each other constantly on the forums and trying to get away with death threats through the forum games and playing it off as a "joke" and "not serious" so they don't get blocked. At first we couldn't do much since it was technically valid argument and they weren't violating policy necessarily, but when they took it too far we cracked down on the policy. So they went and did some workaround that technically wasn't against the policy. This happened too much along with general moderation issues (there's technically like 3-4 people who check the forums here at this point) that we felt the better option was to start controlling these threads ourselves.

And in consideration, if you think about the issue, it kind of explains a main reason why we aren't just "hiring new discussion mods" to fix the issue. Even so, the wiki doesn't hire, people ask in line with the rights process.