Franzine

Happy to see you're a supporter of the transgender community.

I hope they didn't dry-scrape Zetterberg's beard.

Discussion of Zetterberg's beard more thrilling than this game.

Smith makes it happen on the power play. Babcock only wants him on the power play in the last minute of a one-goal game.

When Mickey Redmond talks about ginger ale, does he really mean beer?

Name 10 players in the league better than Johan Franzen. You can't do it.

No -- just split a thread when part of it is no longer about hockey and move that part to the non-hockey forum. Or, you know, lock the thread if you have to. But leave the offending posts as they are, if for no other reason than as examples of bad behavior so people understand and so you don't seem unaccountable to the community for the decisions you make. I don't think this would "ruin the thread for everybody." New threads pop up all the time.

The thing about the rules being excessive was a parenthetical. Here, again, are my arguments: 1. Mods edit and delete posts that don't break forum rules, and that's not good. 2. Moving threads is a better course of action than deleting and editing posts. Would anyone like to address my concerns?

I do think it's important to note that all mods are not created equal. For example, other moderators seems much more reasonable than vladdy16. I know, as fact, that vladdy16 has edited posts and even whole subjects not because they broke forum rules (which are excessive anyway) but because he or she simply did not approve of the formulations -- in fact, a long time ago I was banned for seven days for politely pointing this out. Check the history if you can, rather than just assume your mods are beyond reproach.

We're talking about the forest. It's the principle of deleting and editing posts that is offensive. Especially editing -- you should take away the moderators' ability to edit posts. That should never happen. I can't understand someone who isn't basically repulsed by altering the content of what another person said, no matter how dopey or "tactless" the content. A forum, like the world in general, is about personalities. I just want someone to acknowledge that #2 is a much better option than #1 (assuming #1 means deleting and editing posts).

Matt, do you honestly not think this is creepy? I understand deleting -- but never, ever editing -- a post if it contains something illegal or an image that isn't "family friendly," but you do not need to try to purify threads so that they contain only "respectful" hockey talk. I wouldn't read this forum almost daily if I didn't want to read about hockey, but I want to read a forum, not a blog. Lock -- or why not just move -- threads if you must, but do not, if you're an adult man or woman, delete or edit posts.

They can take away his goals, but they can't take away this:

Robidas is awful.

I think I hear that Pain Train rolling back into the station.