[Moderator]

You will note that we have deleted the YLYL thread.
The moderation team gave a lot of thought on how to best arrive at a decision, and at the end of the day removing the thread seemed like the best course of action for a number of reasons:
- Our desire is for Calgarypuck to be a community that is inclusive and promotes input from all sorts of people.
- Feedback from the community helped us become more aware that this is an (often embarrassing) issue on CP beyond just the YLYL thread. In this we need to get better.
- While it is possible to keep the thread and moderate it more closely and control the content and comments, ultimately its existence just isn’t needed, doesn't significantly contribute to what we want CP to be, and as long as it is around it says something about who we are.

However, we want to emphasize that this is not just about this thread, which is one of the reasons we were delayed in this decision. We think some broader changes/improvements are needed. This isn’t about over-moderating or even significantly shifting out collective approaches. But we need to be more sensitive and inclusive.

To that end, in addition to removing the thread, we will be:
- Expanding the moderation team with an aim to bring in moderators that can give us a broader view point. We will look for strong moderator candidates first, but we hope to find one or more that represent some of the specific groups on this site (e.g. female, LGBT).
- We are working to update our guidelines to be more specific about our stance on sexist, racist, homophobic and other such comments
- We will enforce those comments more strictly. We recognize the bulk of them are made to be humorous but they are become less and less acceptable in today’s world and we will adjust our moderation as such. This will not mean doling out tons of infractions – we will start by giving people warnings and discussing with them how their posting behavior needs to be adjusted

We welcome any questions