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Testing Policy

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This is the new Testing policy as of 5 Nov. 2009.

General Forum Information: this forum is for testing board features or posting methods. It is also commonly used for things like birthday announcements, socializing, and silly or facetious activities which are intended to be temporary. As such, threads which are inactive for more than a day are automatically pruned.

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Okay, guys (The Status of Testing)

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We've been talking behind everyone's backs in the mod forum, and in the interest of transparency and clear communication (even being power-mad assholes, we're not so bad) we've decided to post this; it's condensed from discussion behind closed doors in rooms full of cigar smoke.

A lot of the reason for clamping down on Testing was that you all were, quite frankly, getting too full of yourselves -- acting as if precedents could be treated as hard-and-fast rules, as if you could lodge complaints about moderators for not following precedents, and as though Testing had some sort of sovereignty within the board. Now, we're not a bunch of fuckheads out to quash your fun; we just needed to make it clear that we reserve the right to arbitrarily delete or lock threads in Testing. The board has undergone major restructuring; hopefully you realize that you can't publicly take us to task for interfering in your playground, and so you guys can have it back.

Here's the deal, then. We'll keep an eye on things and try to consistently enforce a couple of guidelines that aren't explicitly mentioned in the Testing policy: No griping about the board, Testing bullshit stays in Testing, and don't forget that since Testing is ultimately a disposable forum, we reserve the right to run rampant. That's your end of the bargain. Ours? We'll keep things fair, we won't stand vigilant and oppressive over Testing, quashing every spammy thread. Maybe once or twice in a blue moon, we'll bring down the Cleansing FireTM just for fun, but we'll try not to make it more than sporadic.

As long as everyone keeps this in mind, Testing can go back to the way it was before Drama. This concludes this public service announcement.

Addendum: Locked, and no: Page three lock is not coming back. That is a permanent change in Testing policy.

Any other questions, PM a mod.

Made a couple of minor edits. ~D
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Re: Testing Policy

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No stickies. Anything to be saved should be moved immediately and split if necessary from the new forum.
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