by Snaga » Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:27 am
Using other forum members as a punching bag isn't a good idea. If I'd come across the OP before discussion had been underway you'd have seen the post locked and a pretty please to play nice.... other members aren't punching bags.
The general tone of the thread seemed more venting than anything else- also we strongly discourage trash-talking of other sites- those get shut down in a hurry, both out of consideration for the other site, also we don't allow linking to other forums, and we wish to avoid cross-site flame wars. Anything more than mentioning another forum site in passing, is quickly discouraged.
As for the Venting forum, yes they're one post only then locked. If a post elsewhere in the forum has no clear (at mod discretion) purpose it is liable to get put into Venting. Ventings are one-off, intense vents, generally.
For general venting, whinging (nothing wrong in that, I do plenty of whinging, if you can't whinge in PF, where can you whinge), thoughts, etc., with no defined question/issue being put forth, there's a couple options: you have the blogs, and/or a journal thread. The journal threads you ask a mod to start, and tell the mod you want replies or no replies. The Blog option, all posts are open to comments. Being that they're your own threads as long as they don't violate community standards, there's more leeway (as far as this mod's concerned) than in regular forum to go where you please with the direction.
Both options are moderated, posts and comments to both journal threads and blogs are always up for moderator approval before being made visible to other members.