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pshrynk · 03-31-2009, 01:11 PM

This discussion is heading in a direction that Alex was fearful might happen and that is "Us vs Them" in trying to make a decision. After a lot of discussion amongst the moderators, we decided to have this poll and get the feel of the members.

1) It is not us vs them, it is us and how we can be sensitive to all members and their desires.

2) It is not silly versus serious, it is about having places that we can do things in the forum that we like to do and having a convenient way to sort them all out.

3) There isn't going to be any moderation of threads to make sure they are either silly or serious. That's up to the members to police for themselves. The moderators are going to be watchful of disrespect and flaming that is out of hand and will step in only in extremely severe and blatant cricumstances. Like they always have.

Please try to keep in mind that this is about opening up possibilities and expanding opportunities, rather than being about anger.

03-31-2009, 01:11 PM	#169
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	This discussion is heading in a direction that Alex was fearful might happen and that is "Us vs Them" in trying to make a decision. After a lot of discussion amongst the moderators, we decided to have this poll and get the feel of the members. 1) It is not us vs them, it is us and how we can be sensitive to all members and their desires. 2) It is not silly versus serious, it is about having places that we can do things in the forum that we like to do and having a convenient way to sort them all out. 3) There isn't going to be any moderation of threads to make sure they are either silly or serious. That's up to the members to police for themselves. The moderators are going to be watchful of disrespect and flaming that is out of hand and will step in only in extremely severe and blatant cricumstances. Like they always have. Please try to keep in mind that this is about opening up possibilities and expanding opportunities, rather than being about anger.