Originally Posted by Lasereth

The no-trolling or flaming at TFP is the reason I stay. No other forum on the Internet (that I know of) has had a no-flaming policy for as long as TFP.

One aspect of TFP that I know hinders its progress is how new people are treated sometimes. Someone starts a thread asking a question or wanting to know other people's thoughts about a topic but they forgot to add their own...what happens? The thread is closed/locked, the poster is made to look like an idiot, and he/she rarely ever recreates it. Why can't a moderator simply ask the OP to edit with what they think instead of locking or closing the thread?

If I had never been to TFP and I made a new topic and it was locked that quickly I would never come back. Partly out of spite, partly because recreating a new thread is like being a child who is punished, and partly because I wouldn't feel motivated to recreate a thread on a forum that I don't give a shit about at the time.