DivineFire wrote:Off topic is actually quite lenient as far as I'm concerned, only posts that have literally nothing to add to the forums get closed. Flaming on the other hand just isn't useful to this site in any way and creates a negative environment and doesn't allow new people to join the actual conversation that was happening in the thread in question.
As far as ban thebritish goes... If you're asking for someone to get banned because you don't like what they post and then telling me it's a joke more or less you're definitely one of those people that makes youtube videos of "pranking" people by doing things like pretending to steal their stuff... Jokes aside, the "movement" was blatant bigotry and attacking another user, I'm sure all the quotes you guys put in your sigs are "making fun of him" enough. Whether you think he "deserves" it or not is irrelevant, if it's in violation of the forum rules action will be taken.
The answer to your final question "when is this going to stop" is never, the new rules have been created to promote a more respectful and accepting forum space where everyone has the opportunity to contribute to discussions. I do acknowledge however, that getting used to this sort of shift in the rules and moderation of this site will take some getting used to, but I believe in you.
It's off topic, which means that it need not add anything to forum. Short of spamming the same posts/threads, threatening another user, or repeatedly using bad language, there is zero reason to ever lock and off topic thread. Locking/moving an irrelevant thread in the general section is fine, but there is no reason to do this in off-topic.
In regards to thebritish, I think you are completely misrepresenting/misunderstanding the situation. It isn't as simple as him saying something people disagree with and getting attacked as a result; he flames people who question his theories. Just go to the lbow suggestion thread and the royal guard thread and you will see him calling anyone who disagrees with him a noob or stupid. He has also manufactured a fake rank for himself, and gets pissy whenever people tell him it's bs. He gets away with ALL of this, and you're giving out warnings to people for teasing him?
A community isn't respectful and accepting when mods lock every thread that they don't like.