Feedback for the Gameplay board.

Eedat·6/20/2017, 8:19:15 PM·2 votes·227 views

Recently there have been a lot of people making threads to plug their Youtube channel and/or Twitch channel. In the past these threads were removed completely as the belong on the Concepts & Creations board. Now, however, they are just frozen which disables upvotes and comments.

The issue I'm seeing with this is that the links to their channels are still visible which doesn't dissuade them from posting on the incorrect board. They don't care if people can't comment as long as they're clicking the link. I believe thats why we're seeing a lot more plugging on the Gameplay board recently.

My suggestion would be to remove threads that are placed on the wrong board entirely. That will properly dissuade people from doing it over and over.

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ModKnightsKemplar6/21/2017, 3:06:49 AM1 votes

We're discussing it. Feel free (you and anyone else) to comment and leave feedback. In the meantime, I'll explain the reasoning.

We prefer to lock content that we're okay with people seeing, for the most part. Locking prohibits it from being voted up or from receiving extra attention via comments, for sure, which pushes it down further on the boards. It's feels pretty "censorship"-heavy to just delete everything that we don't like on the sub-board.

The advantage to locking is that everyone can see what we did and why. I like that, because I want the moderation to be as visible as possible. But, if the users don't like it, then we're always up for discussing it.