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And I'm sure that to many that's how it looks (and has been characterized). The fact of the matter, though, was that in and of itself, the HCT wasn't the precipitating cause of any of the current drama. That thread was created years and years ago as a repository of all the hot chickiness a small group of members wished to have a space for. However, throughout the history of the thread, those very members would post their hot chick images in other areas of the board, and not just a picture here and there, but pages and pages and pages of them, along with associated, ahem, "insightful" commentary. Repeatedly, at least a couple of times a year since the HCT was begun, massive cleanups, thread deletions, and warnings took place surrounding these images. All of these crises arose from post reports about hot chick stuff in threads that were not the HCT.
This latest crisis came about in exactly this way. We had post reports about a string of particularly erotic images in a non-HCT thread. We aren't talking about cheerleaders here or co-eds at the beach. Because there were so many hot chick pictures in that not-HCT thread that to move them would be a huge task, a representative of the frequent posters in those two threads and I decided together that merging the two would at least leave all of the hot chicks in just one thread, which might solve the issue. Unfortunately it didn't solve anything because rather than trying to keep a low profile in order to continue to enjoy the privilege of having a hot chick space on SB, some members upped the ante and posted even more revealing images, and this was after I asked the representative to spread the word to self-police with their image posting or it could come back to bite them. We now see that it has come back to bite them.
Thus all the tears and tantrums.
So, Bob, far from being the case of "a mod" imposing "morals" on a group of innocent guys just trying to have a little fun, this was a chain of events like snowfall that sits for long periods on a mountainside and that eventually leads to an avalanche. This has been building and building for years and has been a regular feature of how-can-we-find-a-win-win-solution discussions in the back room each time a hot chick crisis has erupted. The responsibility for having got to where we are now rests squarely with the members who have been most vociferous in expressing their outrage. If only the HCT guys had stuck just to the HCT and not repeatedly inundated other threads with erotic content; if only the merged-thread guys had toned it down instead of ramping it up; if only the outrage hadn't morphed into frivolous post reporting to make a point, your post would still be right where you published it.
Sounds to me like someone decided the best cure for cancer was a firing squad.