New Rules For The Deck Needed?

[Jim O'Bryan]

Over the past couple weeks we have watched the heat of rhetoric climb to what some thought were dangerous levels. "Dangerous" is when we start to worry. As I mentioned we put together a volunteer advisory board, to look at new ways for the Deck and Observer to interact with the community. As witnessed by Missy's latest posting, no one should ever be afraid to post on the Deck.

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Potential New Rules

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Personally, I was looking at keeping the project the same. But it would seem 12 years is a good run for good behavior with very few limitations. The Observer group that started this project had hoped the level of discourse would be high enough using real names, sadly that has not happened. So we look to a potential version 2

Opinions?


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