as far as "negative/downer" postings go -
It's not just the fact that they are depressing. Life is life.
But negative topics tend to fill the entire section.
So far, I've seen three types of topics that spread out of control:
- Overall personal negative stuff
- Prayer requests
- Jokes
And I'm not talking about a thread spinning out of control. I'm talking about many different people creating similar threads of their own and flooding the section.
On it's own, neither one of those is a big problem.
But imagine the GCC section consisting primarily of those topics.
If we didn't do anything at all, that's what would happen. And we did a lot to stop such topics from spreading long before the introduction of the PDA section.
So if you think there weren't any problems in GCC a few weeks or months ago, that's because we've been enforcing many of the rules meant to keep the section balanced. It just wasn't as visible as it is now.
Can we please concentrate on the part I posted in bold instead of talking about who gets offended by what and who complained and so on. This won't help us find a solution.
I want to figure out how to keep the "contagious" topics from flooding the section without restricting the communication any more than necessary.
This is the tough part of discussion that everyone seems to be avoiding.