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Originally Posted by venice10
What should the meaning of this forum be today?
In the genesis of this forum, we threw around a few options - where to put it, how to segregate and/or separate content between here and B&M. And, again, when B&M made their changes to moderation policy Mat wanted to know if things still worked for us.
This is pretty much where discussion the ground rules for M&B landed. [Some names removed to protect a conversation originally reserved for a private audience. Assume that all names are other moderators involved in the decision.]
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<REMOVED-1> has said that he doesn't like the redundancy generally and <REMOVED-2> has said that he doesn't like the redundancy specifically in the Poker Venues arena, but I think that <REMOVED-3> and I agree that it is likely beneficial to have overlap of subject matter, much like OOT/Lounge/BBV4L/EDF all cover generally the same subject matter but handle it in a different manner.
I also don't think there's any denying that the split has benefited posters who don't like the way B&M is moderated and that the split has made B&M have even higher quality posts on average.
It's hard to see from the final email, but I lobbied, both at the beginning and when Mat followed-up, that we simply get to take the lighter-side topics from B&M, those that needed (or would benefit from) a wider berth in the sort of conversation allowed in them. Give us the chip-porn threads.
Rapini has a standing offer to
mirror any threads we'd like here, but I don't
personally think that's productive. Looking at the 40 threads I see on a page, there's half a dozen, maybe, that I think would have benefited from being in this atmosphere -- but I'm not going to ask that they be mirrored, as I think it's just sort of dumb.
As long as the people who post here (and the people who provide the bandwidth) think they get something out of having an alternative to B&M, I'll gladly do the tiny minimum of occasionally telling you guys to play nice that I need to do to keep things civil here.