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Old 03-08-2007, 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by paisjpq


And I should mention as a moderator that there ARE threads occasionally that get edited after the fact when we feel that they have taken an bad turn to get them back on topic...or they get moved altogether to esoteric...
but for the most part what Danzig points out is true...a bunch of people contributing rapid fire to one thread often means that several ideas are being discussed simultaneously (not all of them on point) but in the interest of not outright censoring people, usually it is only those posts that are blatantly offensive that are removed.
Thank you posting Paisj. Rapid fire is great, when someone comes in and dances off to left field with the entire thread though, that's a whole 'nother matter.

And its not easy to keep such things from happening, nor is it easy to put things back together. Moderating is difficult.
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