It's apparently disrupting the forums. More than banning the most active members. So any further queries must be via PM, where no one else can see them.
Katy did just say she was planning on re-opening the thread in a couple of days after this dies down. Because after talking about this for the last week and a bit we're going to suddenly stop after two days just cause she closed a thread.
Uh... The Anti List was closed. Nighthawk has an absolutely amazing mommy who wrote a beautiful post and argued with the mods. Flying did a fabulous job with Mod Genn. Genn and Katy are pissed, nothing new there.
Well, Katy's last sentence in her long post that basically ran in circles was "We follow what the site owner tells us and if this continues, you might not like what follows.".
I don't know if it's just me, but that seems very ominous and foreboding. I wouldn't push it.
No kidding. But Hachette.... or at least this department of Hachette.... sides with the mods. Even though they say that the "site owner" is the higher-up of all higher-ups, there are still more people to go to. If there aren't, then that's just one fucked system, and I feel bad for the poor people who have to operate under it.
>.> Did they ever stop to think that it's COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE to take legal action over this kind of stuff? I mean we "disrupted" the site they get paid to moderate. Then they can ban the account unfairly. But why drag it into FUCKING COURT!? It's just FUCKING NUTS!