[Site Staff] Forum Updates: Thread Creation and What That Entails

[Conegamer]

chocoloco said:
Half of the threads I ever posted on this site were news threads. Now the only place to get unadulterated news will be the xbox empire and occasionally the playstation thread. Seems like a waste of time.

I don't think that this rule is discouraging threads from being created; far from it. It's merely just to ensure that links are always put in to the OP (which is often the case), to avoid sloppy formatting and/or provokative thread titles, and to encourage the OP to share their own opinion in their OP.

At the end of the day if you create a thread, then you dictate where the conversation is going to go by your actions in that first post. I believe what the mod team, and Smeags in particular, are trying to do is to promote a more positive environment where discussion is encouraged, as opposed to ignoring and banning news threads altogether.

That's what this looks like to me anyway.