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Originally Posted by well named
I think it's going to be difficult to effectively moderate the forum if like 75% of the active posters are against what we're doing. It's also just not really the way I like to do moderation. That's not a wall I really enjoy banging my head against continuously. I mean, as far as I'm concerned it's your call. Mat put you in charge of the forum. I think you've been more than reasonable in allowing me to come in and blow everything up for you (my pleasure by the way :P), but if you want to soldier on despite the poll results I need to think a little more about whether or not it will really work for me to try to be involved. You and I have similar ideas about what we would like the forum to be, but I don't think it's very realistic to try to bring it about by force.
A few thoughts after a long hold day at the poolside
1) still waiting for whosnext to chime in with his thoughts but for me, I will always be open to a reasonable way forward for us 3 and all posters who are putting forward reasonable objections. It's not about forcing one approach.
2) the nature of PU was posters complain about PU. For example, many of those who are now voting for personal attacks will be adamantly opposed to themselves or others being confined or banned - it's a fool errand to think there's a solution to keeping everyone happy that means not doing anything that causes wide spread complaints, as complaining about the forum is a fundamental part of the PU environment.
3) apart from some possible issue with complicated rules there still seems no reason while those who want threads with personal attacks have an objection to threads that dont.