The Frying Pan is where inappropriate posts come to die

[Recipezaar Moderator]

Hosting community forums can be difficult sometimes because, well, people get into fights. So if a thread gets too hot, or someone becomes hostile or rude, we'll move the thread here.

We discourage these types of threads and ask that you refrain from posting in any thread that is moved here, because it almost always makes things worse. If you want a place to yell at each other, or talk about politics or adults-only stuff, we encourage you to participate in outside discussion groups that are designed for those topics.

Call us crazy, but we like to keep our recipe and cooking site free of the yelling and screaming.

P.S. No one can post new topics here. They just get moved here by us.

P.P.S. As in any Kitchen, we periodically "do the dishes" and all Frying Pan threads are deleted.

FAQs:

Why aren't the topics simply deleted rather than moved here for everyone to see?

They are moved here for a very short period of time allowing people to see that this type of post is inappropriate, to prevent the "Where'd that topic go?!" questions in Customer Support or in email to our support address and to encourage a quick end to the discussion. Suddenly deleting a topic, especially the type of heated ones that end up here, will only result in more new topics to continue the discussion by the participants of the topic who are emotional enough to not want it to stop -- one topic here is preferable to two, three or 10 related topics in the forums.