Thanks for posting it instead of me. I have been thinking to do it for the past few days but considering my own fault in the matter (answering to all the inflammatory material and contributing to derail the thread even more), I thought it would not be wise nor productive for me to start a thread about it, and could have been seen as hypocritical as well.
I agree entirely with what you said, but please keep in mind that a few moments can sometimes be needed before an action by the moderation team is to be taken since they sometimes have to discuss about it on private parts of the forum or through private messages. It can also take even more time since everyone here is doing it freely on a voluntary basis and RL stuff can happen and delay things.
However, there are several different things at work here, and I think it would be better to avoid any confusion (not that you have done any, quite the contrary actually) :
1) This is a recruitement thread we are talking about. Then we had an (interesting I think) discussion on how the cartel link can be percieved IC and how to clearly set it apart from all the OOC sugarcoat we know about the corp.
However as interesting as the discussion was, it would have been indeed better to split the thread and open a new one called something like "Stillwater: IC/OOC known cartel affiliations ?" So, the first issue is mostly about a thread derailing on another (interesting ?) subject.
2) We also had quite a few contributions that were clearly in my mind violating the very rules of the forum. One of them is mostly on the form (not the content) on how some people implied "you are doing it wrong". As much as it may be constructive to point out respectfuly what in the corp you think might cause troubles with other RPers, there are several ways of saying it.
As Reyd said above, iirc some comments were very borderline on that matter and even I, who vaguely know that Leo does not do the unanimity, was able to feel the clear hostility in some of the comments. Sounded like pretty childish behavior to me.
3) And a few clear violations of the rules of inflammatory comments comments being overly insulting.
I am here refering to Morwen post : "Whining and ranting at people for noticing your shitty housekeeping skills when you invited them into your house isn't going to get you anywhere." Bit that I reported, of course.
I could also have reported my own post asking people if they are reading what other write, because as much as I still wonder if they do, it was of bad form and probably insulting either.
The ensuing inflammatory post (post #37) that Morwen answered with is also a huge taunt directed at me in itself, but I guess I deserved it. However, it is still out of the rules of the forum in my opinion. You're the only one who seems to be having trouble understanding anything I'm saying. The problem is pretty clearly on your end, Lyn. is also completely firstly, arrogant, and secondly, violating the rules of respect and conduct, and more, coming from a mod himself makes it even more difficult for me to deal with it.
I also reported Saede post I actually quite like Leo OOCly, its just that the way he RPs often makes me facedesk. I feel that the way it was said was maybe not intentional, but it is clearly violating the rules as well.
This of course, is only my opinion on the matter. I am especially surprised to see that I got so much flak in the process for merely being quite neutral and, I hope, objective in the answers I provided.
Edit: on a more subjective way of saying things at a more personnal level, I feel that this thread derailing is quite telling on the activities of some circlejerks in the community.
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