ha ha! Fuck with me rpg.net!
It was my thread that the OP is referring to. I had my grubby little hands on the SW Saga book and was very impressed with and interested in its design and marketing approach. I wanted to discuss how it might impact the market and the hobby overall. My first thread was a very brief review with lots of my own D20 "hate" in it. This was moved in seconds to the D20 forum. I went to Trouble Tickets and asked, very reasonably for it to get moved back. Waited several hours for a response. During that time, several other TT requests got a response, include one to move a D20 thread from Open into D20.
So I went back to Open and started another thread, this time without the review and a much clearer position on how this may affect the entire hobby (which I had understood was an allowable exception to discuss D20 things in Open).
This one was moved in about 20 minutes. I tried to not blow my gasket, but was getting very close. I was waiting for a response from the mods when Forumulus, the God of Internet Discussion became furious at ShannonA's hubris (or whoever the fuck is pulling his strings) and shot a lightning bolt at their servers.
I don't want to sound hysterical, but they are coming perilously close to censorship with this move. I have been on the site for about a year and a half, 1,500 posts, some good hot arguments. I've never been warned. I've contributed to the index, encouraged friends to check it out. And now I'm having my perfectly valid threads yanked around to fit their little vision of the world?
C.W. Richeson says it has been talked to death, which is true. It has been talked to death by the users, but the Mods are skirting around the issue and ShannonA has said absolutely nothing of substance. It's clear that many of the mods are not comfortable with the change and are towing the line. And its clear that ShannonA's lack of proper communication on this issue is making the situation worse. I would love to know what are the real motivations behind the change.