Wordboard Policy Changes: Snark here, the Kurtz of this little Heart of Darkness. Me and Quark, the founders, after prodding by Abnu and others, have decided to reign-in the runaway train that the Wordboard has become and bring it back to its intended focus: naming, branding and related advertising and marketing issues. How will we be doing that? By ruthlessly deleting posts that veer too far from the target.

What this means: it means, bluntly, that the days of laissez-faire run-amokery are over. You people wanted free will and we gave it to you (sorry, I couldn't resist), and some have hurled the dreaded C-word ("Censorship!") at us in the past when we've deleted offensive posts, and we're tried to be accommodating. Well, those days are gone.

We will now be deleting any posts we want in order to re-focus this board. My sincerest apologies to all of you whose posts will be cut, and to those of you who have just discovered this site by following a link from a search engine to a thread that is now gone; flaming, dating issues, guy problems, girl problems, acne, anal sex how-to questions, school election slogans, etc will no longer be a part of this site. I recommend you move your discussions of these important topics to a chat room of your choosing, as Wordlab will no longer be able to fulfill that need for you.

Exceptions: the best part of rules are that they create a climate for exceptions to breed in. If you are creative, if you post with wit and intelligence, you can get your post past our Neanderthal censors to thrive in the brilliant sunlight of Wordlab's new dawn. How you do that will be your challenge to figure out, I can't tell you.

Oh, and please use an appropriate Subject line when you create a thread, otherwise you risk having the thread deleted, perhaps by accident during this feeding frenzy, if we perceive that it's not relevant.

Good luck to all. Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year, but most especially Peace for all people everywhere.

Now, let the slashing begin. If you care to comment, you can do so by posting to this Wordboard thread.