1. Who? Well obviously it has to be one of the Mods locking or deleting a thread. I really don't encourage deletion of threads, but I'll support the decisions of mods if they feel a thread has a reason to be closed because it's going somewhere it just doesn't need to go.
2. Where? I just threw that in - we all know we're in Dollieh Sanctuary LOL
3. Why? Yep this is the biggy. It comes down to the fact that it seems every time DoA comes up in a topic the thread eventually degenerates into "I hate DoA", "DoA is elitist", "DoA mods act like nazis" etc... (no those aren't actual quotes, but they are representative of the basic idea). In other words, it turns into a DoA bitch thread. Case in point would be the thread someone once started about their attempt to join DoA getting blocked because of their email address. Within probably five posts it had turned into "I was banned for this" or "I heard that they banned someone for that" etc... Some of the criticism was founded, some was not - either way it was getting into territory that could be considered DoA bashing.
Now, all of us, I think, agree that DoA has issues. And sometimes we want to talk about something that's occurred over there, like the recent bootleg thread. That's not a problem as long as we are discussing the topic mentioned - but when the thread disolves into another round of "DoA sucks because...." we are going to lock it.
Again, why? Well, I can't really speak for all the mods, but my personal feeling is that whether we are members of DoA individually or not they are a fellow doll community. They serve a purpose as they are, by far, the best source of new doll news, second hand market, and owner photos just because of their size. I don't know who lurks in this forum and who doesn't, but one thing I don't want to see are posts showing up anywhere saying that Dollieh Sanctuary is full of DoA bashers. I prefer to keep a professional level relationship with all other doll forums (bjd or otherwise).
That's my reason.
As for some of the other mods I think the issue for them is one of "Do we reallly need to go over this again and again?" or to be more simple - it gets old.
Does this mean we are trying to censor the posts here - heck no! Everyone pokes fun at DoA now and again and none of us have a problem with that. Heck I wrote the Manifesto which is one long poke at DoA at it's core - we just don't want any mention of DoA to turn into "why I dont like DoA" posts.
I hope that everyone understand this, and I want to reiterate that it's not particular people or anything like that causing threads like these to get closed - please don't anyone feel that I am personally censuring them because I'm definitely not - it's an overall, not an individual thing.
I'm leaving THIS thread open for feedback about what I've said here - because I do value the feedback of the membership
Thanks for being members and reading
