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I don't see the creation of a new category as censorship in any way, and I DID say it was just a way to address the desire to keep a topic’s tone sincere and sensible. It would just be a street sign so to speak, much as the silliness tag is; just an easy way to see at a glance which way the wind is blowing.
I'm sure that even in the most serious of threads no one ever objects to a little frivolity, and everyone knows that the subject often steers off course to some degree. I just think that some members are asking for a tag that subtly suggests to the silly ones among us to refrain from throwing the thread off the cliff (without feeling censored) unnecessarily, much the same as the SILLINESS tag subtly invites one to be wild and crazy, and please refrain from being morbid and morose.
Opting in or out of a thread may work very well for some, but wouldn't you need to take a few additional steps to set up these preferences? Not meaning to infer that would be a problem, but wouldn't it just be easier to have an additional tag instead to see at-a-glance the difference between the "Please turn your cell phones off in the exam room" demeanor of a thread, and the "silly string ahead - all manner of madness flies within" type of thread.
But then again, I could be wrong. I usually am.
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