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Rico summed it up way more accurately than I ever could. For those that do not know, the rule came about during my tenure as admin. The relationship topic is the only such "broad discussion ban" rule ever implemented on SHQ and it came about as a part of a general concensus of all the admins and mods at the time who were absolutely and positively SICK of dealing with it. The names mentioned above were a key reason for this and after they were all banned from the board one by one they went to other boards and did the same things before they wound up being banned from many of those.

And though they were the catalysts, I say with all honestly that one topic tends to bring out some of the biggest streams of idiots this fandom as a whole has ever seen, so it wasn't JUST them. That topic tends to turn otherwise sane and reasonable people into dithering gibbering asinine single minded morons.

The Knothole Village Board was arguably the worst place on Sonic HQ to visit for almost a year and a half because of it - anyone that was around back then will tell you that. There were days where you couldn't have a single conversation in any thread that had nothing to do with that topic at all before somebody with shipping on the brain and no life outside of a computer monitor would derail it into becoming as such, and if you let it get out of control it would wind up on South Island or the General Board too.

THE TOPIC IS AN AMOEBA. IT IS AN OCTOPUS. IT DESERVED TO DIE AND DESERVES TO STAY DEAD.

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Having said that, after the implementation of the rule Knothole - and the MoFO as a whole - became a much more tolerable place to visit because of it. Furthermore, I don't see the need for whining about it as there are plenty of other Sonic boards out there should you want to discuss it that have not issued moratoriums on such things, so unless the law here gets another consensus for it to be repealed - which I don't see happening AT ALL so might as well not bother - you may as well forget it and move on sir.


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Dude. When you're personally butthurt over whether a fictional squirrel should be going out with a fictional hedgehog and you feel the need to let everybody under the sun know this whether they want to hear it or not in every place you go - it is TOTALLY whining. There is no way to justify it *not* being that.

As a side note Matt - while you do have a point about there being a note - there actually used to be a notice up on Knothole for YEARS after it was implemented. Someone must have taken it down at some point because I didn't even realize it was gone. Perhaps someone should put it back up but that's a call for current staff to make. As a sidenote, it seems like it should be one of those things most everybody here knows anyway as - whenever the topic comes up - most everybody here is hyper quick to jump on the person doing it. Just pointing that out.