Dave Gallaher
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Did a mod delete a post I made here on 10/23?
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David Drummond
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Maybe that answers your question.
Dave Gallaher
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Oh, okay--I guess the 'heh' didn't mean what I thought it did. It would be helpful to let a writer know they've been deleted.
Question: since my deleted post contained a reference to a published article covering newly completed research on the subject by a viable resource, would it be considerable to have a 'climate change research index' thread that would allow, instead of personal opinions and arguments, links and quotes from the published research docs that are driving our opinions? In this case, there could be an ongoing collection of scientific opinions from all points of view and new works on the subject could be posted for all who are interested.
Question: since my deleted post contained a reference to a published article covering newly completed research on the subject by a viable resource, would it be considerable to have a 'climate change research index' thread that would allow, instead of personal opinions and arguments, links and quotes from the published research docs that are driving our opinions? In this case, there could be an ongoing collection of scientific opinions from all points of view and new works on the subject could be posted for all who are interested.
David Drummond
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We are debating about the best way to handle GW discussion right now. Ideally it would be kept purely scientific. However, as it is, every thread ends up with political stuff (that is banned on this forum) thrown in and eventually ends up spiraling out of control. It's repeated time and again.
Sorry about not letting you know...there are only two of us moderating right now, time isn't exactly at a premium. I threw the "heh" in there so I wouldn't seem like such a hard ass.
Sorry about not letting you know...there are only two of us moderating right now, time isn't exactly at a premium. I threw the "heh" in there so I wouldn't seem like such a hard ass.
Mikey Gribble
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Great, so are we going to ban global warming now too?
It doesn't seem right to me to ban it, even if it dwells into the political realm. It's kind of hard to leave politics out of it. I don't understand why we can't address inappropriate posts instead of banning topics all together. If you have a hundred cars and one of them drives recklessly, you don't ban driving. We already took that approach with religion and politics. I sure hope it doesn't happen with global warming too.
It doesn't seem right to me to ban it, even if it dwells into the political realm. It's kind of hard to leave politics out of it. I don't understand why we can't address inappropriate posts instead of banning topics all together. If you have a hundred cars and one of them drives recklessly, you don't ban driving. We already took that approach with religion and politics. I sure hope it doesn't happen with global warming too.
Tim Vasquez
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Stormtrack's policy is not to censor meteorological discussions, but any participation in a global warming thread here is like being a nail... if you stick out too far, the staff will hammer you flat. Stick to the science as much as you can -- politics is a slippery slope and we are not going to bend our TOS to accommodate political discussion. Any further discussion about our policy should be posted in the Site Issues forum.
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Andrew Pritchard
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I care about it, but won't change my opinions based on one of the threads on here. They're more or less the same people saying the same thing in different words 5 or 10 different times before someone brings up light bars, fast driving chasers, or cold core chasing in Kansas that isn't really cold core in another thread and everyone takes out their crappy day at work on that thread.
I have to agree with Gribble though, that banning it probably won't do much but make people angry that they can't discuss it. It doesn't really take much to set members of this board off sometimes... if even a thread discussing some early season supercells in Wisconsin can result in 5 infractions, 2 suspensions and a permanent ban, I don't see how such a heated topic can be expected to go more than 3 pages without people talking about other member's "mamas".
I have to agree with Gribble though, that banning it probably won't do much but make people angry that they can't discuss it. It doesn't really take much to set members of this board off sometimes... if even a thread discussing some early season supercells in Wisconsin can result in 5 infractions, 2 suspensions and a permanent ban, I don't see how such a heated topic can be expected to go more than 3 pages without people talking about other member's "mamas".
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