ORIGINAL: bairdlander
You are correct.I have noticed that certain subjects are taboo(anything anti-conservative/Republican opinions get locked)
Clearly then you would not believe how many PMs/e-mails/posts I've received telling me exactly the opposite. The truth is while we are all human, we strive to not allow our own biases to in any way affect the enforcement of the forum rules. What most often happens is that we don't initially notice that a thread has gone out of bounds and when we jump in and finally lock it, some folks assume that the cause was the most recent post there that was "over the line", when usually it's the whole thread or just the direction it's heading regardless of the exact position taken.
I have locked threads where I strongly disagreed with certain posts as well as threads where I strongly agreed, the point was that they were getting to the point where the discussion was no longer civil, had turned political and was just going to generate hard feelings. Our goal with this forum is really just to leave what may be bugging us about the rest of the world at the door and focus on our shared love of these kinds of games. There are way too many places for all the rest of that stuff.
Regards,
- Erik