Bitchfest posts hidden?

If you are interested in following bitchfest or complaints, you can find them by clicking on the index tab. If you don't want to miss a single post, click the subscribe button when you are in the forum category that you want to follow, and you will receive an e-mail informing you of every new post made. Although, I strongly advise against subscribing to bitchfest, as it might flood your in box.

Yes the complaints and bugs forum has been temporarily removed from the recent topics list, because, as I said, bug reports were overwhelming the recent topics. While debugging after a major change like this, I need those in their own threads to work through them. After the dust settles and we go back to the more typical, one bug report every now and again, I'll put this forum back up on the recent topics list.

Bitchfest has also been removed from recent topics page. It will stay there at least until we can work out a solution to the paradoxical desires of our membership which seems to be:

1. Members should be able to post anything they want any way they want.
2. No one should ever be suspended (a.k.a. banned)
3. No post or comment should ever be edited or unpublished
4. Make so-and-so stop doing thus-and-such
5. Make so-and-so's posse stop piling on
6. And no I won't take my spats with a single individual to PM

And typically all 6 of these desires are expressed by the same individual.

This site may have very few rules, but it does have some expectations of behavior. Those expectations are rather minimal. (re-read the forum policies if you haven't done so in a while). Until we can think up a better solution that can meet all of the above desires of our members, behavior that does not meet these minimal expectations will be moved into bitchfest which will not appear in the recent topics. Thus the participants are not suspended from the site, the content is not removed from the site, but behavior that does not meet the site's rather lenient policy, and interferes with the normal purpose and function of the site is essentially moved off the primary site hubs (front page and recent topics). At the very least, we hope this will reduce the "pile on" problem and allow members to work out their issues without it being escalated by a bunch of rubberneckers.

From my point of view, I feel the members of F:AT are adults, and should easily be able to meet the rather minimal expectations of behavior on this site. They should be able to work out personal disagreements with each other on their own in a way that does not disrupt the normal purpose and function of this site. They should be able to do this in a manner that does not require the involvement of a moderator, let alone the participation of the entire site membership. As a result, nothing should ever need to get moved to an area like bitchfest or thunderdome.

If you are one of those members who are under the misconception that the normal function and purpose of F:AT is to feature Jr. High School drama, ugly interpersonal arguments, and general internet wank, then I suggest that for the time being you set bitchfest as your bookmark for the site.