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Creative Speculation

In reply to the discussion: Cohosts [View all]

eomer

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7. Thanks, I figured as much and appreciate you stating it so we all understand how this is working.
Mon Dec 19, 2011, 12:05 PM
Dec 2011

It's a reasonable exercise of discretion by the admins, IMO.

I've been hoping this new place will have discussions that are less dysfunctional and therefore more interesting. In my mind this would require either some additions to the SOP for the group or else something that amounted to the same whether or not the SOP was where they were recorded. I think this may be difficult to implement and would likely require a good deal of subjective judgement on whether certain types of posts tend to foster interesting discussion or, in the alternative, tend more toward inanity, flamebait, name calling, or else somehow leading to discussions that people care only about winning but don't really gain any insight or knowledge from.

As part of that I personally believe we need a balance between the two sides of the obvious de facto divide in this group to be represented fairly equally when decisions have to be made.

I'd be interested in knowing peoples' opinions (including yours) on whether this DU3 version should be substantially changed or are we thinking it will end up pretty much like DU2, in which case I'll probably not participate much.

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