The light touch CA moderation experiment

And just to add if CA stays like that I would like to see the other forums take a stricter line on bikering between posters etc. It would do nothing but promote and encourage people to the site.

I agree it has been a success but it could do with a few small tweeks.

It's still unclear where the line is posting there. For example AI posts were banned within hours and rightly so but link dumping still seems ok. Anecodtes are as useful as that time I was travelling on the Titanic reading boards.ie and just finished my big mac before the ship sank.

Maybe a few quick lines of a charter is all that is required and let everyone have a go at it.

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How does this allign in any way to the new CA policy?

So is CA going back to them rules? It's not very clear. That was one of the reasons for this thread.

Also that list is fairly comprehensive so to confirm no link dumps to now allowed?

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