You never receive a ban for nothing.
The EWD is a house rule going back to summer 2005 that has never gone away. It is just being enforced again. Simply - In an announced video thread, if you are not posting your response/comments/critiques AFTER watching the video, then that's a problem.

If you post a 'placeholder' post that is anything (EWD/DL now/will watch/sounds cool/great I heard about this/et cetera et cetera) in a video thread so you can edit it later, you are breaking the rule, which happens to be Z's rule anyways, as it always has been, period, end of story.

The reason for this is simple - as soon as a video is annnounced, everybody and their brother floods into the thread, in an attempt to be 'as early' a poster as possible. Posting first or before anyone else is not a contest - Announced threads end up being 4 to 7 pages of nothing but "will watch" and "edit when done" and "Ill have a look" or any other creative bozo-esque responses.

Simply - Announced threads are not your personal 'contest', they are for the video content and your responses only.

Bottom line - your mouse cursor should go nowhere near the edit button in an announced thread - ever. Watch the video if you want, then post comments AFTER watching.

If you don't like the rule, you need to convince Z otherwise - which I don't recommend as this has been a rule for over three years - Z pays the bills for H3F, and as moderators we simply keep the rules in order. This isn't debatable, negotiable, flexible, producible as legal tender, or variable. In fact, it used to bother Z so much that he used to actually add "EWD posts = ban" in announced video threads. So yeah, he's that serious about it, and it's his site. Case closed.

The end.

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