Here's a good thread that's a microcosm of RAWK. The Pre Match Thread for tonight's game. There's a comment that says "Downing to have a stormer", then someone writes "Good one" and some posters follow up with "out of order" etc. Then someone writes "You can't write that on here!"
This sums up the difficulty we have to a degree. Personally, I think that's quite funny to say "good one", its not that nice but its humourous not that derogatory to the player and is part of the wit that Reds have. Or you get some who would say that's just a pisstake and we should remove people who are disrespectful to the player. Or you get posters writing "You can't write that on here" which is funny and wrong and not on topic but doesn't bother me that much. So we live and let live. Yet many members still have the opinion that we are draconian in our moderation and will ban and clamp down and so on.
But we don't. But also that pre match thread isn't going to win any prizes for literature and will sink without much of a trace and I wonder, should we lock it as its full of nothing, or should we let it stay as a place for people to sound off aimlessly about the match or etc etc.
RAWK, once it got busy, has always been a depository for the instant pot noodle thread and the fine dining thread. We're never going to lose entirely one or the other, and I don't want to. We should have the light and the heavy. As we've seen from this great debate, one man's piss is another man's lovely drop of Chablis.
