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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (65754)11/4/2002 7:24:18 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (7) of 82486
 
I'm thinking of setting up a new thread.

One of the rules would be that you don't take wars from other threads in to my new thread. It would be autocratic in the sense that I would ban people who I though were causing a serious detriment to the thread and there would be no vote or formal appeals process, but I have always been reluctant to ban people and few people would be likely to be banned.

Neither CH nor Poet might like the new thread because it would not give either of them whay they want. If Poet participated CH might be there as well and he would not have to apologize in order to participate. But CH would not like it because honestly he might be on a short leash in terms of saying anything negative about Poet on the thread. In fact I would ask him to observe a "no about" on the thread, meaning he should not say anything personal about Poet. I would hold Poet to the same standard but there would be no rule to prevent either of them from posting to the other as long as it did not get personal. If they can deal with this then at least there will be a place for the people here to post about something other then this war (I guess this thread will be for this war...) If one or the other or both don't like the idea I think it could still be a good thread without them.

I figure I can't solve the issue but maybe I can side step it.

No one will be prebanned from the thread. Even people like EV. And for most things I would not be quick to ban. But some of EV's post might result in a quick ban and any continuation of the war from this thread on to the new thread would result in at least a temporary ban.

Any opinions about this idea?

Tim
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