Feedback Suggestion: A "Quarantine" subforum

[Desire Lines]

Recently there has been talk about making Proving Grounds private. Personally, I don't think that's a good idea, because a lot of the cows here became popular after they found their own threads and started chimping out. At the same time, having the threads in public means the cow will go DFE mode and disappear.
So my suggestion is to create a "Quarantine" subforum for threads which have a) gone out of control, b) in which the lolcow went on a DFE spree. The board would be invite-only, and the invites would be given out only to members who have been on the site for at least three months, and who have a clean history behind them (no weening, derailing threads etc.) It's simular to what happened to Phil's board: it went private to improve the quality of the content. On the board, the users would improve the threads, rather information, and when the time comes move the thread back onto the main sub-forums. I feel like this would be helpful both to KF's mods and improve the overall archiving etiquette of the board.

 

[SJ 485]

I don't think the possibility of cows coming to post in their thread is a good reason to want to keep proving grounds threads public. If the cow is worthwhile then the thread will go into the main section when it's ready anyway. If they see the thread and DFE before it's complete then it's already too late to hide it.

 

[Positron]

So my suggestion is to create a "Quarantine" subforum for threads which have a) gone out of control, b) in which the lolcow went on a DFE spree.

a) Mods should step in for threads that has gone out of control.
b) It is the responsibility of the OP to preserve and archive. And if a cow really has the sense to lay low, well, she ceases to be a cow.