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This is moreso directed at the people who are telling you to monitor flamecup than you. Parts are clearly to you, but generally it's stating reasons why the aforementioned suggestion is silly.

I think it's a little ridiculous that people would suggest you making rules for flamecup. Having them monitor who the flames and such are about is a lot harder than it may seem. If you've seen the community, you can see that some flames don't even have a specific username on them. At times you just see a picture of someone and "do not want", and I don't understand how you expect the mods to keep track of who is who, you know?

I do understand that this is your website and you run it, but the members pay. Many people have either donated or paid for different accounts, and I think that makes it as much their website as yours. It was all yours before you decided to accept other people's cash, do you understand? You saying, "THIS IS MY WEBSITE, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT THEN YOU CAN LEAVE. I DON'T CARE ABOUT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, IT'S MINE!" is completely uncalled for seeing as how multiple people have given you money to pay for the servers you're using right now.

flamecup is negative. It is full of drama, hurtful things, hateful insults. But most of the people who are flamed laugh it off. Most of the time, people realize that it is just the internet, and people are going to talk shit regardless of who you are and what you're a member of.

To offset this, we have honorcup. I'd suggest that instead of making rules for a community that isn't yours (please don't throw the "THE WHOLE DAMN WEBSITE IS MINE!" thing out there as I've already addressed it), you state somewhere on the homepage that if you don't want to see hurtful things about yourself, you protect your journal (and maybe list a few ways to do so), and you stay away from communities that can be harmful to your self esteem.

If any of this came off as overly bitchy, I apologize. I sincerely hope I don't start even more drama because of it. I think it's great that you reviewed the opinions of your members and took their feelings into consideration. I also think that the main people who want flamecup gone are people who are butthurt about things that have been said about them, or people who are friends with people who are butthurt.