Dear Mods/Admins

[drone]

By several, you mean one. Tosa would also have axed it regardless of whether we had followed his new guidelines to the letter. Personally, I think the EB Tavern has been killed off, but a warning, or at least a notification that that would happen would have been nice. An apology will suffice though.

I seem to remember at least 2, but I may be thinking of something else.

Many? You mean one. The other punishments for alts were dished out for the alt thread, which you can see for yourself.

I can't see the warnings, and I can't tie the alts to the original accounts. I'm guessing on a lot of this.

Personally, I feel that the Babe/Hunk threads by their very nature are worse than anything that ever occurred in the EB Tavern.

Since it's inception, the Babe Thread has been locked several times due to inappropriate posts (either anatomical or themed). I believe there has been much discussion between the Frontroom mods and Tosa about it, it remains mainly due to it's constant surveillance by the Frontroom staff.

This is something that has grated me for quite a while. Apparently, when we protest at the destruction of our social group, akin to the obliteration of the backroom, that is taking the internet too seriously. And yet, the various moderators, admins and certain patrons are treating it as if it were an inhuman scourge upon the .Org, that must be wiped out at all costs. The opposition to the re-establishment of a sensible, self-moderated Tavern is way out of proportion.

Taking the internet too seriously is what the OP is all about.

I expect that either Tosa or Lemur, due to the dangerous level of opinion in this post, will either delete it or ban me. That, or take me out the back and shoot me in the back of the skull with a 9mm, which would certainly please both of them. But I will repost if it is deleted, as opinions have 2 outcomes. Either they stay forever, or are countered. You cannot fight opinion with fire.

I mean, really? Nothing will be gained with posts like this.

I never read the EB Tavern, I never got involved in the offshoot discussions. But it appears that it took up a fair amount of Org bandwidth, for a few select folks, with no real supervision. Why not have the Tavern discussions with the rest of the membership? Why not have a tank discussion in the Monastery? Or other off-topic discussions in the Front/Backroom? There are only 2 reasons I see the EB Tavern existed: to either exclude other members from the discussion or skirt the rules of the regularly moderated board. And neither of those are very good reasons.