okay, so i read the complaints department.
for those of you still confused, the stuff i'm talking about will only affect this forum, and no other forums.
my goal here is to keep the forum on topic.
so, nobody liked the deletion thing. ok. instead of deleting vague or off-topic posts, i will instead be moving those posts to the forum to which they are best suited. hopefully you will be happy with that. if it's vague but belongs here, then i will copy it into a new topic with a more specific title. my goal here isnt to be a tyrant. its to make finding topics of interest to you easier than looking through a crapload of "please help" topic.
for the long posts thing, i will loosen the restriction, and i will only close out a topic when it has ceased to be interesting, has turned into a fight, has gotten silly, etc.
naturally, all spam will be deleted when i see it, or moved to the appropriate section as appropriate.
also, i'm not locking this topic, in case there are more complaints from the peanut gallery.