This Group Needs To Be Resurrected

[Michael Haney]

My vision for this group has always been for it to be a haven for people wanting to express their creativity in an environment that is free and open to all ideas. Anything goes pretty much. There are no restrictions on off-topic posts either. Want to rant, then rant away. Someone out there might agree with your rant and add their own, and someone might not agree and voice their discent. This is how meaningful discussions get started. My hope is to get such discussions going again in this group. Adult Content is allow, if this bothers you either learn to deal with it or go elsewhere. 

Things can get out of hand sometimes, so how do you have an open forum that prevents non-productive flame wars from breaking out without having overly restrictive rules? By keeping the rules simple (there are just 5), based on common sense, and say it like it is without resorting to that infectious disease called Politically Correct Speech.

The 5 Group Rules...

1. No Hate Speech: All it does is promote conflict and disharmony in the group, so don't do it.

2. No Trolling: Trolls add nothing meaningful to a discussion, so we kill them with ban hammers.

3. Keep Your Religion to Yourself: Not everyone believes the same things you do, so deal with it.

4. Add [NSFW] to the Beginning of Subject Lines for Posts with Adult Content: So we don't have to deal with whiners who can't handle it.

5. Don't Spam Us: It makes our ban hammer arms twitchy.

There will be Moderators. Their main role is to deal with Trolls and Spam only. They may not moderate a post because it goes against their political, religious, or ideological views. Moderators are subject to Oversight by the members of this group. You can hold a vote to give a member the status of Moderator, to override a decision made by a Moderator (unless that decision was against something that violates the 5 Group Rules), or to take away someone's Moderator status. Moderators cannot be allowed to have absolute authority to do what they want. That leads to dictatorship and that can kill the free and open exchange of ideas, so they have authority only because you as members allow them to have such authority. You are giving them your trust that they will do their duty correction and not abuse the power they've been given, and if they do then you can take that authority away.

So, please come back, and lets make this group something great.

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Michael "TheZorch" Haney
https://sites.google.com/site/thezorch/

"Those who are angry in their religion do not live it."

--Abraham-Hicks

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