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1. To facilitate a community of posters, many of whom come here from the OnT, but not all. This assumes that more site traffic is positive and that keeping people around for purposes other than being a civ site has merit.
2. Personal attacks should be discouraged when mild and stopped when more harsh.
3. The posters themselves should be allowed to determine the course of threads. The only guidance they should need would be the thread starter asking for help if his/her threads are jacked (eg. anneshem and the eternal question of the origins of hundu civilisation).
4. Be easy going. Posters will go where they want to. People like LS and joncha make forums a more intersting place. Only proviso being, again, trashing other peoples' threads should be stopped.
5. Not really, except that we know that certain subjects may not have very productive discussions since they've been done to death and the same old people will have the same old arguments again, and again.
6. I post here because it is like my on-line home. I sometimes avoid posting to avoid conflicts which have been allowed to turn very nasty in the past.
7. I'm positively inclined towards the closed-threads forum, but my jury is still out. If it turns into a penile competition it might not be such a great idea.
8a. Try to cut down on dog-piling and harsh personal attacks. I'm not sure how you eliminate dog-piling. A flat-Earther would probably not find a kind hearing on a forum with a lot of people familiar with the physical sciences. The tone should be important.
8b. I'd appreciate it if posts don't get deleted. It is disconcerting to come into a thread and parts of the discussion are missing. There is a solution for posters who require a lot of editing of their posts.
9. Most everything except the excessive nastiness.
10. Thanks for caring enough to make the effort. Kudos for being able to admit a mistake. Being open to suggestions is another positive sign.
A bit more later.
2. Personal attacks should be discouraged when mild and stopped when more harsh.
3. The posters themselves should be allowed to determine the course of threads. The only guidance they should need would be the thread starter asking for help if his/her threads are jacked (eg. anneshem and the eternal question of the origins of hundu civilisation).
4. Be easy going. Posters will go where they want to. People like LS and joncha make forums a more intersting place. Only proviso being, again, trashing other peoples' threads should be stopped.
5. Not really, except that we know that certain subjects may not have very productive discussions since they've been done to death and the same old people will have the same old arguments again, and again.
6. I post here because it is like my on-line home. I sometimes avoid posting to avoid conflicts which have been allowed to turn very nasty in the past.
7. I'm positively inclined towards the closed-threads forum, but my jury is still out. If it turns into a penile competition it might not be such a great idea.
8a. Try to cut down on dog-piling and harsh personal attacks. I'm not sure how you eliminate dog-piling. A flat-Earther would probably not find a kind hearing on a forum with a lot of people familiar with the physical sciences. The tone should be important.
8b. I'd appreciate it if posts don't get deleted. It is disconcerting to come into a thread and parts of the discussion are missing. There is a solution for posters who require a lot of editing of their posts.
9. Most everything except the excessive nastiness.
10. Thanks for caring enough to make the effort. Kudos for being able to admit a mistake. Being open to suggestions is another positive sign.
A bit more later.
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