Gossiping about sexuality on a lot of threads used to be pretty normal (and you could post about likely partners etc) but now in lots of them there are a few self appointed censors who seem to want to police everything and stop any kind of discussion. Instead of ignoring it (like we ignored their incessant grumblings) they go and report even the most modest or minor bit of speculation to the moderators.
I was not sure what caused a recent RWRB thread to be shut down, was it actually some information that crossed the line or did some of the over zealous thought-police actually cry wolf too many times? Which would be ironic if they got it shut down. Either way they seem to have their dull and sanitised new thread so maybe they got their way. Having one thread for this sort of stuff seems like a way to take a lot of the fun out of the forum with interesting discussion and tidbits replaced with just PR pictures and press updates which you can see and read about anywhere. In nearly all situations the awful 'gossip' and 'speculation' was from stuff in the public domain, but apparently even that is not allowed anymore. I am against anything invasive, but you should be able to talk about things and people that are available to anyone on the internet. It is a shame how things have changed. Just my two cents.
