04-23-2025, 02:12 PMCount Chocula Wrote: 4 teams made mistakes and now they suffer the consequences, that's how it goes. Now hopefully they won't make similar mistakes in the future and all the other 16 teams can feel good about doing it by the book.

On the other topic, I don't agree with HO locking threads. You should 100% be able to go spend time with your family and not worry about this league at all. However if HO feels like they can't step away for a few hours without this place burning to the ground, then what are we even doing here? If the community is that toxic maybe we should just pull the plug. However I believe there are enough rational, good natured people here to inter regulate. If anyone crosses a line just punish them whenever someone gets back.

Man we really do not lock threads that often. Those two threads just came at a really inconvenient time for us to be able to keep an eye on (we were down at least two members of HO who'd left early for GM jobs, mid-hiring cycle, mid on-boarding new members, mid commissioner working night shifts, it was a Saturday night, etc.) and when one of the people involved said "you should just lock those threads" I thought you know, that's not a terrible idea, and did it to give us some breathing room on those two particular ones at the time. It's not as if we were out there telling people they weren't allowed to speak about things or censoring anybody.

It's not something we usually do, just something we did to address a particular situation that was getting ugly in DMs as well. We really aren't in the habit of just locking threads all the time, it's crazy that this has spiraled out and gotten memed on so hard.