@episode666: no apologies needed, you have my sympathy as a moderator and as someone who had to deal with this shit.
i'm going to close this thread.
there's people complaining about the downfall of this board due to the abundance of stupid threads that feed flame-wars and pointless discussion, while just a few weeks ago this forum was a tight-knit community where intelligent discussion was the norm.
i have no idea what should i do about it. perhaps kidnap all stupid people and inject a dose of "genius serum" directly into their spinal cord, since it's apparent "genius serum" is something that spontaneously pours out of my nostrils at night.
or maybe i ought to ban all users posting stupid stuff on account of their not being up to par with elitarian iq's.
the fact is, whatever i choose to do bar nothing is going to make people (maybe other people, not those who complained, or maybe the same people) call me a fascist constraining freedom of speech. it surely is going to make me call myself a fascist constraining freedom of speech.
what i think is lost on the majority of you is that i'm not the official dt forum. i can promote and support intelligent discussion, but i can't make users say what i want on the threads i'd want them to, or what you want on the threads you'd want them to. i'm just as good as you users are, and i surely can't squeeze blood from stone.
however, expect stricter appliance of rules and dismissing of all i deem stupid (it even fits my mood, which is much darker than usual). believe me, you have no idea how high my standards for idiocy actually are.
rahvin.