Would it be possible to give some threads, like the BlackSix update threads, a special status? Particularly the 1C information threads.
These threads would be heavily moderated to delete
anything that isn't a question or answer relating specifically to the original post content. This would help us find On Topic material that is interesting, informative, etc.
For example in the latest update thread
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=29368
- incidentally drowned by 226 posts/23 pages in just 10 hours - there are questions relating to the aircraft info released in the OP ("will it have this type of gun", "what software is used", etc.), that are perfectly reasonable. But all the rest - love, hate, even thanks and gratitude - just make it difficult to find sensible questions and the answers.
These 'Official Announcements' are just that, they are not the usual threads where people ask, answer, help, condemn, praise or scream at eachother/1C. To be effective and useful they need to be kept super-clean.
There are more than enough existing heavy 'discussion' threads and more than enough new ones that would be made, where members can vent their spleen away from the real information so that we don't get buried under them, or have to read through the same old bile and counter-bile all the time.
So could these Threads be heavily moderated, perhaps carrying a clear message in the first Post, such as
THIS IS A FORMAL 1C INFORMATION COMMUNICATION
THERE ARE STRICT LIMITS ON THE NATURE OF RESPONSES PERMITTED WITHIN THIS THREAD
For the special rules that apply see [URL ]......[/URL ]