So this is the key point everybody keeps missing that I have reiterated multiple times already: This is just as much an exercise in forcing people to start putting forth a better effort towards posting as it is creating a standard. This means it is on the user to keep on top of the rules, contribute to the forum with meaningful content, and self-police.
The fact that people are getting upset over losing valuable information about games, while also being informed about the deletions on a bi-weekly basis, and still refusing to write like five sentences for any thread they may want to save, just tells me that those threads were something not, in fact, things that the community wanted to save.
People were really on board with the idea of tightening up the rules around here until they realized that it applied to all the threads that existed prior to it as well, and then suddenly they're calling the rules too strict, even though we've already been applying a laxer standard on pre-existing threads.
I've said it in a different thread, and I'll say it here: I'm not going to half-ass the effort to clean up this place. This should have been done years ago, which I admit is my own fault, but a modicum of effort in every thread was always expected and just because it hadn't been enforced doesn't mean the standard didn't exist.
Your point about one post being the single failure point for a thread's existence is valid, but isn't enough to excuse the fact that:
A) Everybody has been told for four months straight that threads were being moved to the H-Section for deletion.
B) I've only been asking people to just answer the question "What is this game about, in terms of gameplay?" with one decent paragraph. The amount of effort you spent in that post is more than the amount of effort we've been asking to update any given thread in the H-Section. In fact, the amount of effort people have been spending to complain about the rules has been more than enough to write a description for a game slated for deletion.
C) Just because one post is the one being judged for a thread's standing, doesn't mean that it is the responsibility of one person to fix it. Since the beginning, I have said that ANYBODY could PM me or another mod to fix it. Slicer and I have personally seen threads in that section still being posted in, despite the fact that they've already been informed that it is going to be deleted. Even if you personally missed the memo, there are people who are actively ignoring the warnings we've been giving. These people who are actively contributing to those threads can easily write up an OP and save the thread, and yet choose not to.
I also took the liberty of looking up what thread you were talking about. The Hasumi thread was moved to the H-Section in the second half of November. That was when the number of threads to be deleted each cycle was already drastically reduced to one page of threads. In other words, you literally just needed to go to the H-Section, take a cursory glance at the small list of threads being deleted, and write a small description. All threads moved for deletion always have a notification attached that it was moved due to lack of info in the OP. So I'm sorry, but short of me personally messaging you that this exact thread was moved, I've already given you and everybody else on the forum ample notice that it was going to be deleted.
I'm more than willing to listen to how we can better inform people about the changes, but I'm not going to back down on these measures. The mods and I have done far more than our part of the bargain by constantly informing people about updates to rules, reasons for thread deletions, etc. All I asked for the community to do was at least try to put forth more effort in posting, and yet here we are, with at least one person a day getting banned for link begging, one thread a day being deleted because the OP wrote one sentence about the game, and one more strand of my patience coming undone.
