A compromise, perhaps?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Out of curiosity, if the penalty for making comments was automatically 10 points, regardless of what the comment was, would this still be a compromise people were willing to make?  (Not saying I'm on board - I'm just curious.)

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

That would require working to monitor the thread

Inks seems to like doing his job

He said part of the reason why he closed the thread was because he doesn't want to do the work to monitor it, so I'm not sure.

It's not that I mind doing the work, but when you have a thread that's more problematic than it is beneficial, it makes sense to just close it down.

Plus, that's not the primary reason it was locked.  The primary reason is that the thread, in principle, goes against Dave's idea for what the forum should be.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Out of curiosity, if the penalty for making comments was automatically 10 points, regardless of what the comment was, would this still be a compromise people were willing to make?  (Not saying I'm on board - I'm just curious.)

I don't fault you for shutting down the deluge, but the fact that you are even considering this as a solution is worrying.

I'm not.  As I said - the main reason I shut it down is that at its core, it was contrary to the purpose of the forum.  I was just curious if the forum community would be willing to sacrifice commenting to get it back.  Apparently they're not - they want all or nothing.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

As the thread has been restored, this thread serves no further purpose.