Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-6941549-20140102191001/@comment-3076045-20140105140439

Alduin1996 wrote: Timeoin wrote

Suggestion: Someone write something on the General Consensus thread about a policy regarding threads of this nature, to make it a policy to not have any more of these threads Sorry, yes, I suggested we make this thread.

- I feel it is probably necessary to have a policy banning these, as a lot of people seem to feel that they degenerate into flame wars.

We took a similar stance after Skyrim came out with regards to video linking on the wiki, as we had a scary amount of people who were editing pointless video links in an effort to try and get their video uploaded. (Often, neither was actually related to the quest at all, except for a few seconds). The point being, as BOTH sides, the Imperials and the Stormcloaks, have legitimate viewpoints, it really comes down to the character to decide which POV is to be taken. If you are imperial-leaning, of course Ulfric is just in it for himself. If you're a stormcloak, the empire isnt valid as its not the Septim Empire (and all the other arguments that are made).

Other than a thread that is based something like a poll (i.e. shout out if you are a stormcloak, or an imperial), there is not going to be any way of avoiding these issues. For these reasons, yes, I very much support us not having these threads at this time.

(If, later on, people want to review this policy, though, then by all means, lets discuss it! Discussion is always healthy. And if enough people support it, then heck, I won't stand in the way - it is by and large the community's decision. And a lot of people feel that these threads cause flame wars, and we should stop having these threads to avoid it, so thats what we're doing.