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Why not delete the picture post and leave the discussion?

I find it rude to move my thread to Quarantine when I didn't post a picture of a goat in it.

If it wasn't lumped in with the 8 or 9 other threads it wouldn't have been moved but right now there are just too many threads that are challenging the Prof to let anything go. If you want this to be exlusively between you and Prof U so that you can ensure it won't be "goat bombed" either use PMs or lock the thread and unlock it to respond to his unlock post lock.

If it wasn't lumped in with the 8 or 9 other threads it wouldn't have been moved but right now there are just too many threads that are challenging the Prof to let anything go. If you want this to be exlusively between you and Prof U so that you can ensure it won't be "goat bombed" either use PMs or lock the thread and unlock it to respond to his unlock post lock.

I had a serious post about the underlying issue. Instead of discussion, it is just gone. That's rude.

YMT, I know you are a Christian man, please do NOT act like this.  I am obviously a bit busy trying to keep up with all the stuff going on right now, and just because I don't respond to your thread fast enough, you start posting pics everywhere.  Please stop this.

Choose your enforcement carefully. This was all explained in the thread you Quarantined.

Rude of me to give him fuel to burn? Idk about that

Seriously,

Behave. All of you.

Rude of me to give him fuel to burn? Idk about that

Rude of you to rebel against the authority structure that is set up here.  If you feel like my removal of goat pictures is an abuse of my authority as a global mod, then send a PM to Schaef about it.  But unless he removes me from this position, then I have been put in a position of authority (on a small scale).  And the Bible teaches that we are to submit to the authorities that have been placed over us (unless they contradict a higher authority, and the Bible doesn't say that you HAVE to post pictures of goats).  So therefore you should respect my stated rule, and stop posting goat pictures.

It was also rude of you to post in that thread because you shut down a conversation that YMT really felt like he needed to have.  This caused him to be incited to some other behavior that was also NOT in submission to authority.  Therefore you caused your brother to stumble, which is also wrong.

So yeah, I think what you did was rude, and I'll add wrong to that.  I really hope that you and YMT both know that I still love you guys totally as Christian brothers.  And I'm really hoping that all this will be old news in a couple days.  I am not even really angry about any of this.  But I still stand by the policies that I've stated, and I ask you guys to respect that.

if the underlying issue is never addressed

I thought I had addressed the underlying issue of why I would quarantine threads sometimes and remove posts at other times.  It is based on a subjective ratio of pros and cons.  I might get it wrong sometimes, but I am trying my best to be objective and consider the overall forum situation (currently hyper-sensitive), the overall thread situation (sometimes established threads that are contributing to the overall forum, and sometimes threads that have just started and are testing limits, or pretty negative, and sometimes threads that have already been answered and have gone off-topic already), and the specific post situation (rebellious).

If that is not the "underlying issue" then I must have missed it and apologize for not dealing with it.  Can you remind me what it is that I've missed?

Words can't express how much I want to post a picture of a goat right now in this thread. That being said, I won't, because posting pictures of a goat is an art that has been disrespected often recently. CGD Forums behavior has been very disappointing.

Words can't express how much I want to post a picture of a goat right now in this thread.

This thread is hereby "established," so your picture will be deleted.

At least I think so.....

..... which reinforces my point. There's no way for me to know if the picture will be deleted, or if the thread will be Quarantined...

Goats aside, then, what about other meaningless fun discussions? What about "No, you're thinking of..." types of discussions? This loose definition of "spam" has created an atmosphere of laughter oppression. There has to be more to come here for on a daily basis than one or two ruling questions sandwiched between hours of political rhetoric.

I agree that simply posting pictures of goats is not offensive to anyone, and these forums aren't exactly brimming with activity on a normal basis.

I feel the control of spam really should be lessened. I don't think I have once seen the first page of Off Topic filled with spam. Besides, what other CRUCIAL topics would a thread about goats be taking the place of? What harm do threads about goats cause?