To be honest, even while we're talking about this thread and the rules a moderator can't be serious in saying "stay on topic". This sub forum is called drifting teem and meets therefore us discussing the future of our thread cannot in anyway be called off topic by a sane mind, after all it still concerns our team...
To be honest, the staff are tired of having to clean up entire pages of nothing but real-life videos, or livejournal-esque "this was my day" posts from the teams, too. Think of how much info a new member is going to glean from your thread if they're curious about your team when all they can read is how one of the team members went out last night and got drunk. Ah, informative.
Even these videos cannot be said to be off topic in my opinion as it shows the passion and interest of cars of the team members and that they want to share them. Yeah sure the rest the other threads that are dedicated to videos and random pics of real cars, but what if you want to share them with your teammates?
You could try the crazy idea of... linking them to another thread? Surely that's not too hard. I'm not sure what the appeal is in using a lone, monolithic thread as a catch-all for any remote idea that interests any of the team.
This whole moderator thing is getting a bit silly, I doubt most of them been in a drift team or any team for that matter so I doubt they will be understanding of what I just said.
This whole questioning the moderator's decisions thing is getting a bit silly, I doubt most of you have been moderators or administrators at a site as large and varied in its scope as this.
...see how easy that line of reasoning is?
And if I get banned or this thread get locked for expressing an opinion so be it... Would not be awfully surprising that a silly reason like that could provoke that, but then again signs of ignorance are highly visible from the moderators from what I have seen.
If you've tried reading the AUP, you'll see there's nothing in there that says we ban users simply for expressing their opinions (unless of course, that opinion breaks any of the other stated rules).
The staff have been
incredibly patient with this section; I'm sure it feels you're unfairly targeted, but the policy on off-topic discussion extends site-wide. Yes, even in the Off-Topic sections, ironically enough: a thread about Lego doesn't need pages and pages of people discussing architecture, as just a random, made-up example.
Mentioning ignorance brings up an excellent point; why is this sub-section one of the absolute worst for ignoring the Acceptable Use Policy, despite every single member having to agree to it before joining?
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