Quote - "Not deleting posts and threads is not an option. It's a rare forum..."

A forum that the poser forum management would do well to examine is CGSociety. Their moderators are far more restrict and delete at most one post a month or something like that. Neither do they have any problem with "spambots and trolls". IMO the current policy of this forum is wrong and to the detriment of us all.

 

CGSociety has a long list of forum rules that forbids various subjects explicitly, including anything that is remotely off-topic.

The first thread I read there yesterday evening, the fourth reply to a seemingly innocuous "Should I learn 3ds Max?" is a stout reminder that "best app" discussions are forbidden and "such threads are shut down."

If this forum were run that way, I'm sure it would go more smoothly. But I just know there would be a lot more threads locks and deletions before we got used to the much, much stricter rules. (And I personally like to be able to branch out a little bit into the joke telling and off-topic threads.)

Perhaps that's how it needs to be. But that decision belongs to the people who run this site.

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