Concerning Certain Topics

Old announcement of past promotion rounds and updates to Wolfhome.
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So after some thought, administration has come to the conclusion that certain topics are becoming very toxic for the community, and have become a way for users to get around certain rules; mainly the three listed here, Confessions / Little Secrets, Something Pointless About Your Life, What are Your Feelings / Emotions Right Now are the ones currently being handled.

These topics will be locked at this time, and not unlocked going forward.
However, in order to give you, the users, an outlet for such things (as a good majority of you use them correctly), we will be creating three new topics (identicals) with guidelines for what's okay to post, and what is NOT okay to post.

Breaking the rules of the topic will result in your post being removed - and if you continue to post inappropriately on the topic, you will be falling under the 'disturbing the peace' rule and will be dealt with according to that.

Thank you for reading, I'm so sorry for the confusion this might have created.

I'll have all three new links posted within the hour!
Confessions / Little Secrets
Something Pointless About Your Life
What Are Your Feelings And Emotions Right Now?
They are all up and running now!
Thank you so much for bearing with us while we made this transition - hope everyone enjoys the fresh start!
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Yay fresh new topics !!
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it's about time too. I'm looking forward to new topics with a fresh start :D
Really happy this is happening ; 3 ;
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I'm really trying to understand why you guys like to silence your userbase so much????
this is me trying
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I agree with poet
We're people, not something that can be muzzled and locking topics because we voice out own opinions and beliefs is morally wrong. Sorry if I upset you by telling the truth.
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It's not that we're trying to silence anyone. Those topics have become a nest for passive aggressive posts about others which is borderlining on naming and shaming as well as disturbing the peace. If you have questions or concerns about the chat and/or forum, you're more than welcome to bring them up with any one of the admins and even the Alphas. You can also email UD.

Again, we're attempting to make this site a more positive experience. Constantly being catty and negative is not helping that at all.
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Poet wrote:I'm really trying to understand why you guys like to silence your userbase so much????
It's not silencing the userbase. The userbase is allowed to say what they want if it's within the rules they agreed to when they signed up to this community.
It's a fresh start, it's more than I expected, and I am happy with it. (:
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Clovette wrote:
Poet wrote:I'm really trying to understand why you guys like to silence your userbase so much????
It's not silencing the userbase. The userbase is allowed to say what they want if it's within the rules they agreed to when they signed up to this community.
It's a fresh start, it's more than I expected, and I am happy with it. (:

thank you, Clovette. I was trying to word this but couldn't. :)

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Yeah but maybe the administrators could moderate the forums and delete the posts instead of locking the entire topic
It wouldn't be that hard to do
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this is exactly what an administration is meant for. we are acknowledging a problem that exists and taking steps to fix it. please keep in mind that while you can't see everything that goes on within our forums, some of us are currently working on several ways to turn this into a more positive situation. it will just take a little time.
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Chirpy wrote:
Clovette wrote:
Poet wrote:I'm really trying to understand why you guys like to silence your userbase so much????
It's not silencing the userbase. The userbase is allowed to say what they want if it's within the rules they agreed to when they signed up to this community.
It's a fresh start, it's more than I expected, and I am happy with it. (:

thank you, Clovette. I was trying to word this but couldn't. :)

yes this 100%
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A fresh start is probably best by now.
We all do a lot of work behind the scenes --- the admins just want to improve.
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And first topic back up! viewtopic.php?f=10&t=162426
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