Forum Rules Updates

[Kims Robot]

I have to echo Jaine's question.

Does this mean that CD can arbitrarily delete anything they feel like in the chit-chat section? It sounds like movie discussions, TV shows, philosphical thoughts, as well as religious & political debate are now open for deletion.

I do see the caviot that it "reserves the right", but it seems like shaky ground, instead of prohibiting all non-robotics related, its wishy-washy and could easily lead to a "this moderator doesnt like me" or something like that.

While personally, I think CD moderators do a good job currently of monitoring debates, I think the change to this rule either does nothing other than make it public that they have free will to do whatever they want with threads, or it shuts down (or scares) the entire chit-chat section. To one person, myspace might be a really heated topic, to another, politics might be... while I realize its difficult to define, it would be more understandable to define what is acceptable and what isnt.

With the heated discussions recently, if it bothered me, I would turn off chit-chat, everyone has that option.