• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Global Warming Debate Tracker

Have you changed your opinion on global warming because of what you have read in Stormtrack?

  • Yes - I have definitely changed my mind.

    Votes: 6 8.1%

  • No - I will never change.

    Votes: 14 18.9%

  • I don't care about global warming and don't read these threads.

    Votes: 12 16.2%

  • I'm open to changing my views but have not been convinced yet.

    Votes: 42 56.8%
  • Total voters
    74
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.

Tim
 
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".
 
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