LogFAQs > #979950634

adjl posted...

Honestly, I'm expecting this won't even change that much for most social boards in the long run, gradual death of CE aside. For the first few weeks there'll be efforts to close "political" topics, and particularly butthurt posters may be able to get rid of posts/topics they don't like by marking them as political, but long-term I doubt it'll be worth mods' time to actively police boards where nobody has any problems and stamp out political discussions and we can probably just keep posting as normal. It certainly wouldn't be the first time that official policies don't exactly amount to much (like committing to removing problematic ads), and while I expect there'll be a concerted effort to keep up appearances in the early days, I doubt it'll last.

That is what I figure. It seems like some corporate wide policy that is being foolishly applied to Gamefaqs. It may make sense on some of thier wikias and the like, but on Gamefaqs social boards, it doesn't make much sense. Especially, since I feel like at this point, since the user base has dwindled to just the most die hard, trolling and flaming are just much less of a thing (at least to the extreme ends), so there is much less need to manage the discussion compared to something a little bigger that could easily get out of hand. We are just one big happy family here :)