E&C in NHB

[Avder]

Is NHB really an appropriate place to send E&C's unwanted garbage? Why don't those threads just get closed instead?

[Isaac]

Why be reasonable when you can be an epic hero mod?

[Spidey]

So just what the hell is NHB for?

[Avder]

I always thought it was for adult humor that was R rated and thus shouldn't be viewable by the teenage population of the board.

At least that's how it was pitched when it was created.

[Spidey]

Well, I wasn’t here when it was pitched, I can only associate the name with doing battle.

[Top Gun]

It's not like anyone's been posting anything else in there for a while, so we might as well chuck E&C leavings in there.

[Lothar]

NHB was originally pitched for topics too incendiary for the general board. That included adult humor, flamewars, and discussions from E&C that had gotten out of hand.

When Jeff and I were co-mods of E&C, we would generally only move threads that were sort of ongoing mid-grade flamewars with no hope of becoming productive. If a thread looked to be easily salvageable, the most common response was to remove small numbers of off-topic/inflammatory posts and let the thread continue in E&C. That looks like the policy that's still in place -- decent threads with a couple of OT posts get edited to stay E&C-worthy, hopeless threads get moved to NHB, and threads that only became hopeless after playing out their usefulness get locked.

[Isaac]

Not sure why users don't default to the private No Holds Barred forum instead of the E&C.

[Krom]

It was pitched as PG-13 originally. Although really we kinda grew out of it. Only reason sites have non-public forums like that these days is usually to hide stuff that would piss off advertisers, so pretty much a non issue here anymore. I could easily nuke it and just dump all the topics into the cafe, but I keep it around mostly because it has been there for a long time.