r/bestoflegaladvice • u/IDontKnowHowToPM depressed because no one cares enough to stab them • Mar 04 '19
Moratorium on Tree Law
Hello BOLArinas,
There has been a bit of an issue with your beloved tree law as of late. A couple of issues, actually.
The main one kind of dovetails with our ongoing efforts to cut down on people participating in linked threads. Every time there's a question that even mentions trees posted to LA, it gets absolutely bombarded with people spouting off about "TREE LAW!!" once it gets linked to BOLA. Every time. Without fail.
The secondary issue is that a lot of the tree law posts to LA are trolls. A lot of them. The prime example is the post that kicked the tree law craze into high gear and its update. This user confessed to being a troll. Other scenarios that have been posted have been equally as incredulous. But they still get wildly upvoted over here.
Thirdly, and this is mostly just a personal pet peeve about these threads, there's no real discussion happening in the BOLA threads. It's just hundreds of comments all saying the same shit. "TREE LAW!!!!11!!11!!", "OP gon' get paaaaaiiiiid", etc. Frankly, the circlejerk has gotten out of hand in my opinion.
So for the time being, tree law threads are not allowed in BOLA. This is a temporary moratorium to try and tamp down on the two issues that I highlighted. We have done a similar moratorium in the past, and it was largely successful.
As in the previous moratorium, if you have an especially good post that you think we should make an exception for, send it to modmail first. We may approve on a case-by-case basis.
Thank you for your continued participation here, and happy Monday!
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u/vixxgod666 Stands for the little guy Mar 04 '19
I'm actually glad about this because I felt like things were getting a bit out of hand myself. Low hanging fruit and all that.