reply to post by RussianScientists
As I said before - the announcement is as FSME, not as moderator, so yes I'm the instigator of the policy. You'll find many such "announcements"
in most forums by the FSMEs. Even so, there is no need to start each and every "official thread" with "we as staff would like to announce
that..."
Each and every official move by a staff member (be it FSME or Moderator) is discussed by the staff before it is initiated, so any official business is
backed by the entire staff and in effect the management.
And you still misunderstand the statement. There isn't a
ban on vampire threads. There is a ban on
duplicate threads. And this isn't
new to ATS. The staff closes and redirects tens if not hundreds of duplicate threads every day. ATS doesn't allow duplicate threads. This is not
debatable or up for voting. BUT we do take each and every thread on its own and look at its merits. If there is a new angle on an old topic, we
typically leave it.
The reason why an announcement was made was because the crypto forum's front page was covered with similar vampire threads, i.e. it was out of hands.
And members started complaining about this. So to put an immediate stop to it we made an announcement, and in the same move, we showed members that we
do listen to the complaints.
Edit: Grammar
[edit on 8-3-2009 by Gemwolf]