Red Kutai
I've been talking with Gaidin and he says that he's made an effort to contact Mav in the interest of having this thread moved into the zOMG! Forum, on the condition that we're able to keep the off-topic chatter manageable. He seemed confident that it would be best leaving the original thread locked - both to give Mavdoc greater control over opening post, and to let the old one serve as a reminder. I suppose I can understand his reasoning, even if it's not what I'd consider my own ideal solution. sweatdrop
Hopefully this will work well enough that we can continue to focus on what the dev meats are intended to do, and the moderators can continue to focus on making the z!F a better place - I believe that's all he was trying to do, even if doing so required ruffling a few feathers...
Yup, you're right Kutai-- Gaidin contacted me about a proposal to move this thread back over to z!F.
3nodding Sorry I didn't post this in the thread this morning when I replied to him, but I got too busy with work stuff.
Anyway, he said that if we could try to ensure that 50% of our talk inside this thread focused around zOMG!, that he'd be happy to move us back to z!F. If we happened to chat way too much on unrelated topics, he might try to nudge us back on topic occasionally.
I replied to him that I'm not sure if this would be realistic in this thread. I noted that since losing all devs who could talk about future updates, having no game updates in years, no holiday events activated, and Dev Meat members who are already very knowledgeable about every aspect of the game, that this slowly led to having Meats that focus mostly on unrelated topics.
Also I was worried about needing to post reminders to people of the thread if they get off topic too much. I'd really not like to censor conversations or try to alter what is being talked about for the sake of staying in compliance basically.
So I told Gaidin that I'd introduce this proposal to you all. What do you think about this thread being transferred to the z!F, but we'd have to aim for a 50/50 amount of zOMG! talk to random stuff OR we stay here in Friends Chat and we could talk about pretty much whatever I believe.
Gaidin has no intention of doing anything to upset anyone here with this move. He's been very professional about this issue and is only being fair about the rules. Now that I understand the rules better, I too agree with his action. A warning would have been nice, but regardless, this is something we'd have to sort out eventually with the way the thread is now.
So feel free to discuss!
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