Here's the truth.

[Brittany]

I suppose I could go ahead and insert this suggestion here. A sub-forum created specifically to deal with these sorts of issues. Whenever an issue of disciplinary action comes up, be it the deleting of the post or the banning of a member, the involved member(s) would have the choice of making the resulting discussion public or private. Therefore, even if executive power was retained in making a decision, members would have a more open, encouraging atmosphere in which to contribute their thoughts on the matter if it was agreed to allow the issue to be publicly observed. Heck, maybe a few suggestions could be offered that neither party would have thought of themselves!

I understand that in some extreme cases this is really not an option, such as when someone is behaving in a threatening manner or hacking the site like a few previous members have done. I'm also not at all suggesting we give ourselves up to anarchy and reducing this community to a taking of sides which then battle it out to decide a victor. However, I feel a little more transparency and public involvement could do absolute wonders for these repeating scenarios. As of now it seems that this is merely an ongoing issue that no one really wants to seriously address, instead deciding to let it fester and grow, resulting in more and more (increasingly dramatic) occurrences.

Of course, I'm not especially well-versed in how the moderative process works, and I realize there may be a good deal of perspective I do not currently have access to. I also realize that instigating change to that degree could be difficult and time consuming, requiring actual man power which may or may not be available, and I'm also unsure what measures could be taken to *prevent* the whole thing from dissolving into the usual arguments which would wind up diluting the topic at hand. It is by no means a perfect scenario. Therefore I present this just as a suggestion, not a demand, and I would be thrilled if anyone could think up a way to improve the suggestion, or come up with an even better one.

Also, this may be derailing, I'm not even sure at this point. I apologize if this post requires moving, it seems this issue is all over the forum now and may as well be dropped anywhere that retains some relevance to the topic, but I could be distorted in that perspective.

***Edited for typo and addition of info I felt was relevant. No info was removed.

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***Claims lack of desire to get involved, then turns around and gets involved anyway. Wat are you doing, Lynn?***