Welcome Admins!

[Bossy Monkey]

I'm seeing EarlG and Skinner posting on the regular boards for the first time in the 6 months I've been here, and I think it's really great. Post more, guys! And bring elad!

[Cha]

1. Yeah!,,,it is great!!,,,,I second that!,,,,

:toast:

[Skinner]

2. Hi!

We've always been pretty reluctant to share our opinions, because we were afraid of being accused of bias. But we got accused of bias anyway, so it wasn't exactly working.

We've been increasingly alarmed at the amount of flaming. We feel that one big problem may be that our members think we actually don't care about the tone of discussion on the message board. When nothing could be further from the truth.

One thing that makes moderating difficult is that we have to strike a balance between openness and control. We need rules to help keep people civil, but we don't want to stifle the free exchange of ideas.

After much discussion, we decided that one simple change we could make would be to simply participate on the message board. Maybe people will start to realize that we actually care very deeply about what goes on here.

Thanks for the warm welcome. One of these days, I'll post the "Let me tell you all about myself" thread in the lounge.

[Bossy Monkey]

3. I'd guess most of us just figured y'all were busy

That at least was my assumption.