Marc2b
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First I’d like to take a moment to once again mention that one of the things I love about these forums is that they are the best designed forums I have ever encountered. Easy on the eyes, easy to navigate… kudos to the layout designers.
I have no gripes with the moderation of these forums… except of course that one time when I was moderated most unjustly. 
I too would like to see humor be its own section. You used to be able to go the humor section and see lots of great stuff (most of the time) but now new humor tends to get pushed down by all the ten thousand page chain threads (e.g. “I admit…”)
I would also like to suggest that the OP have (outside of moderators) full control of the title of their threads. In other words, subsequent posters would not be able to change the title. Aside from my own recent (and less than stellar) experience in playing with this feature, it has led to some nasty snark wars. It can also be confusing if you see the title as one thing and then go looking for it but can’t find it because it now had a new title.
Some comments on other people’s ideas:
Heather McLeather said: You'd do better to make Hanners a mod, she pretty much hates everybody equally.
Oh my fucking God! I don’t fucking want to fucking imagine what that fucking reign of fucking terror would be fucking like!
LadyPact said: I believe threads that are three months old should be locked. If a person wants to "update" a thread, they can write a Mod about opening it. I'm thinking it would cover such things as the OP who wrote the original to tell people how their problem worked out, those who wanted to update actual news of how court cases were decided, etc. Otherwise, if the last post is three months old (not talking about the games and such here that stay alive regularly) there's no bumping it. (The three month rule has been covered on threads several times, but the FAQ section says six months. Should be changed to three.)
I am opposed to locking off threads that have been inactive for a while… sometimes it is fun to revisit an old thread, especially if recent events make it relevant again. Still I have been irked when I thought that someone who hadn’t posted a while was back because I hadn’t realized that it was a resurrected thread (and once I was freaked out when it looked like someone had returned from the dead). I’ve made this recommendation before and I reiterate here: Any thread more than three months (or six or whatever) old will have a symbol (e.g. a ghost rising from a grave) to indicate that it is a resurrected thread.
ChatteParfaitt said: I would like to see an enforced rule that you must make a certain number of posts before you can start a new thread.
I am opposed to this. I think. If you mean that a newcommer to the threads would have to make so many posts before being allowed to start threads, then I would be opposed. I understand how irksome it can be when someone’s first post is a five thousand word warning of the international Jewish/Space Aliens conspiracy to subvert Christian civilization by putting fluoride in our drinking water… but truth be told, they don’t come up that often and I see no reason to restrict someone just because they are new to the boards. These are forums, not a club where you have to prove yourself before being granted full membership.
On the other hand, if you mean that everybody has to make so many posts in between starting threads, well...
And: I would like to see stricter moderation on those who create threads b/c they have nothing better to do.
This I do agree with. A limit of five (or seven or whatever) threads per day is more than reasonable. The only thing more irksome that long warnings about the international Jewish/Space Aliens conspiracy is fifty such warnings. The idea that a certain number of posts be made in between threads would certainly cut this down some (except, of course, for the truly dedicated) but I think that a simple limit would be better than forcing people to make posts they don't really want to.
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