Unwritten rules...

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Just a quick question.
I've discovered that slip-joints aren't all considered "Traditional" (especially if I like them), and made my peace with that.

But then I make a sword, and post a link to the thread in General about it in the Sword Discussion forum, and the thread goes missing. :confused:
Is there an unwritten rule that swords must meet an arbitrary level of "Swordishness" to be allowed in there?
I thought that if I made a sword, designed as a sword, and called a sword, I could talk about it in the sword forum.

Am I just incredibly obtuse and missing something here? Did the 12 hour shift I just worked melt my brain, and there's a simple thing I'm missing here?
 
If you want an answer, you have to ask a question, like a question where we can figure out what is or was where. :)

A link, a link, my kingdom for a link!
 
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There's a thread in General entitled "Behold Mjolnir..." http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1117362-Behold-Mjolnir
I made a thread in the Sword Discussion subforum called "I Made a Short Sword", in which I provided a link to the aforementioned thread, as I thought the sword enthusiasts might wish to see it, and thought that a huge copy & paste would be even more redundant.
There were a few positive comments in that thread (the one with the link), but when I looked for it tonight, it was gone.
This just seemed weird to me, and I saw nothing indicating it had been moved.

So, I'm basically just confused.
 
You probably should have put the whole thread in Swords in the first place, or Shop Talk as a WIP.

Frankly, we are not big on posting links in another forum to a main thread elsewhere. That gets out of hand in a hurry. People see it and double or triple post, linking and then seeing the link become a full thread in its own right.

Mostly we see it when someone posts a knife for sale and then posts a link in the manufacturer's forum advertising the sale. Not going to allow that.
 
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