should we make the lounge an unmoderated forum? Options

[micron]

hi all,

i was browing through my old site before i made cb... and it had a forums, where the equivalent of cb's "the lounge" wasn't moderated. i thought that was a good idea, and leaning towards implementing it here.

dont get me wrong. moderating is good and all, but sometimes it can really discourage members from participating. for example, there seems to be a trend where staff members close topics if the topic was talked about before, even if it's been over a year. this might be good in that it promotes organization, but in reality, it really kills the participitory aspect of the forums. sometimes things need to be revisted and retalked. its part of everyday life.

if we continue on like this, where topics get closed because it revists an older topic, sooner or later, there will be nothing to talk about. period.

so. what do you think? should we let the lounge be completely unmoderated by staff members? or should be do a compromise, where staff members are only allowed to move topics elsewhere, but cannot close the topics here?

let me hear from you. staff members may also contribute. =)

[juliar]

there should be a new forum section called "junk". mods can only move, they can't close. so they can move the topic that they would normally close into "junk". it can be discussed in the junk forum or whatever whether or not the topic should be moved back into lounge.

seriously, i've thought about making so many topics but i havent because i didnt want about ten mods on my ass talking about how there's a topic back in sept 04 that's the same. and when i find that topic, i dont wanna post in it because it would be closed for bringing shit back. seriously, either the mods need to chill out or this non-moderated thing should happen. plus, what, you think we're all gonna go psycho when we realize you can't close our topics? someone determined to spam is going to spam, regardless of whether or not their topic is going to be closed or not.

EDIT: scratch all of that, i just read the whole second page of the thread. WOOT. YES. GO MICRON. WOOT.