Originally Posted by
ADMIN
Dear Members,
In the town hall meeting we had several weeks ago, many expressed their desire to see more moderation in the "On the Serious Side" section of the forum. We moderators have read your concerns and are prepared to comply with this request. Much like tPF, the aim will be to have a place for serious discussion free of flamebait trolling, off-topic distractions and personal attacks. Somewhat like tPF, OP reports will carry added weight to forum rule moderation, but moderators will decide when and how to act. Most likely such actions will be at minimum to thread ban the poster and remove the distracting post, but additional action could be taken, and frequent violators will be infracted.
In order to make identification of OtSS easier, threads and posts in these areas will be highlighted by a star icon. These stars will appear both in the What's New section of the forum as well as on the right sidebar of the home page where new threads and posts are listed.
To give members a chance to become acclimated to these changes, we will start with moving posts and issuing thread bans only. Infractions will be issued to repeat offenders once this adjustment period has ended, one week from today.
Thank you all for your contributions and feedback!