Mods?
You may find a response (or not) in there: When is a post off-topic? - #104 by mattyhurst
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Holy shit!
People looking for hard and fast rules won’t find them.
The mods are only trying to bring balance
We have a very light touch generally and just try to nudge things in the right direction. Like a good ref most of time it’s unseen. Sometimes though we need to take more assertive corrective action.
We want balance. Good humour, quality, passion, good debate, friendships etc. multiple dimensions trying to keep in alignment. Stray to far one way, it comes at expensive of another. The force becomes disrupted.
Even things inherently good (like humour) can tip into Jar Jar chaos if it drowns out substance. Passionate is fantastic.. but not if your blinkered.
Gifs are not inherently good or bad. Likewise often corrective action is not about an individual. It’s mods simply trying to balance to forum so it does not fall to either extreme . Even if you don’t like it, the intent is good. The intent is so that other positive aspects of forum are not lost.
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Indeed. And of course, I deleted the post above, as it contained an especially eye-hurting gif. 
Seriously, as Nik and ismf wrote above, it’s a question of balance, and lately, there are too many of them. So I’ve done what I consider as the best for the site, which is to take away a part. No big issue, and no-one should take personal offense from this.
However, if everyone could think a second before posting a gif without any further comment, it would be very appreciated.
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WTF are these??? @admins can’t you delete these???
What is this thing, a good ref?
If you see or find one please show the evidence.
Let’s give the user chance. They might come good.
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We were always going to get an influx of posts from irregular posters after a performance like that.
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Thanks for taking the time to reply.
So there are no rules, Mods will delete posts if and when the mood takes them.
I’ll stick to just reading from now on, don’t see the point in making any effort to post only for a Mod to delete it “just because”.
I hope you can rethink this. You are a good poster.
For the mods:
I thought the mod response showed a deft touch, thank you. I’m glad to be on a board where the spirit of the law rules over the letter of the law. The analogy about keeping a balance to the force is a good one. Thank you for working to hold various factors in creative tension at the same time.
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For fucks sake. This isn’t hard to understand.
The odd gif or or two, when it adds to the discussion and feels relevant is fine.
What we don’t want is threads turning into streams of gifs. That’s adds nothing, and just slows down the site.
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