I think this forum stands out as one where critical comments are welcomed and that spirit of openness and tolerance has produced some of the best commentary on the game. And I'm glad that the new mods are continuing that spirit of tolerance. But there also come a point where one needs to ask if one too many warnings have been issued.

There is a statement that could be taken as a death threat in this thread, people have started using the name of a Larian author as a lighting rod for their ire and the last few pages of this thread are pretty grim. It really does feels like people are stirring themselves up.

I would vote to put the thread in a timeout box a while. The authors can create a new topic in a few weeks and try to avoid doing some of the things that lead to the demise of this thread like attacking authors, talking about stoning women to death and using words like shadowhore.

I want this to remain a forum where people can advocate for changes to the game and to say sharply critical things about the quality of the writing. But this thread is a pretty poor example of such.