General Notice About "Survivor" Threads

[big bad fab]

You have my complete support (not that this should surprise anyone...) -in fact I would urge you to go even further and delete every Survivor thread that currently exists on this board, and I would strongly encourage other moderators (with the sole exception of Joe Republic) to do the same with theirs.  

I actually put a lot of effort trying to add things about Argentine presidents in the Argentine survivor, i think it's pretty unfair on your part to suggest it should be deleted just because they don't interest you.

I am not demanding they be deleted just because they don't interest me -I am demanding they be deleted because the sheer quantity of them have approached the level of spam.  

And quite honestly, I don't care how much effort you (as well as others) put into making these Survivor threads.  Perhaps you would have been better served putting as much effort into thinking about how you might have been able to avoid the backlash that you are seeing now.  

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You might want to put some thought into Supersoulty's suggestion about creating a separate board for Survivor threads -do you think you can put all your Survivor spam there and leave the rest of the boards alone?  

Frodo, it's just because you don't come to the International General Discussion board: come & see my former Irish leaders survivor, my former India's PMs survivor, my current Argentina's presidents survivor, Hans' former Portuguese modern leaders survivor, etc...

In the History board, Kal's Stalin inner circle survivor, Kal's Tudors survivor, my own Soviet and sister party leaders survivor, (I hope the same for) my current Napoleon's marshals and Hitler's marshals and admirals, etc..., were also good opportunities to debate or discuss.

We've had real discussions & debates, more than in many topics where someone just put a link to an article, or say "I'm in a bad mood today", or the thousandth topic on Gary you-know-who or against Sarah you-know-who, or talk about "defeat of Chile's left" whereas there is already a topic on "Chile elections 2010", etc.

Granted, US survivors are generally uninteresting as they are only partisan survivors. And US, presidents survivor, for the thousandth time, is indeed a bad idea.
But please do not make the same statement for other survivors.

And, again, I agree a sub-board in the election & history games survivor is the best idea.

I'm not talking about you, but it's amazing to see voters in some survivors who are now strongly against any survivor... how mature...

[big bad fab]

Well, the international board, where real discussion apparently occurs, is not under subject of this rule, so why does it matter?

The mods aren't applying a blind policy here.  It's very easy to look at the topics and their authors in this particular board and judge them as disruptive to legitimate discussion.  

It's because the discussion on survivors has occurred here mainly, more than in the Atlas board.

You're right, Lunar: I agree on the US general discussion board (in which I never personally launched a survivor).

I agree a bit less about Religion & Philosophy, where I created just one (Greek Gods) which probably would have remained the only one, BTW... But I understand that Supersoulty has stricken preemptively on this and I can't blame him.

Indeed, other boards aren't affected for the moment, despite the fact that, in History, it's really crowded now and I acknowledge I'm partly responsible for this. But the History board isn't too busy usually and there are MANY topics that should be in Alternative History or in International What-Ifs... nothing is perfect !