It's back up, all threads about it have been locked and Cerium explained that they undid the changes because they were too successful.
Unfortunately, we underestimated just how much impact this would have on thread list congestion. The renewed activity was beyond our expectations and ended up sidelining everything else, especially in the Entertainment section.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/back-to-normal.66147/
Lol
This is amazing.
There is no need to prove that these successes are of supreme importance for the fate of our forum, for the whole of the general membership, which is the directing force of our forum, and, lastly for the prominent membership itself. To say nothing of the direct practical results, these successes are of immense value for the internal life of the prominent membership itself, for the education of our prominent membership. They imbue our prominent membership with a spirit of cheerfulness and confidence in its strength. They arm the general membership with confidence in the victory of our cause. They bring forward additional millions of reserves for our prominent membership.
Hence the prominent membership's task is to consolidate the successes achieved and to utilise them systematically for our further advancement.
But the successes have their seamy side, especially when they are attained with comparative “ease” — “unexpectedly” so to speak. Such successes sometimes induce a spirit of vanity and conceit: “We can achieve anything!”, “There is nothing we can’t do!” People not infrequently become intoxicated by such successes; they become dizzy with success, lose all sense of proportion and the capacity to understand realities; they show a tendency to overrate their own strength and to underrate the strength of the enemy; adventurist attempts are made to solve all questions of internet posting “in a trice.” In such a case, there is no room for concern to consolidate the successes achieved and to utilise them systematically for further advancement. Why should we consolidate the successes achieved when, as it is, we can dash to the full victory of posting “in a trice”: “We can achieve anything!”, “There is nothing we can’t do!”
Hence the prominent membership’s task is to wage a determined struggle against these sentiments, which are dangerous and harmful to our cause, and to drive them out of the membership.
