Guys You are killing this board.

I put out 3 links in my often posted "signature", where comments/questionsions can be directed to the admins. This includes the "Considerations of topic promotions from the Proposed New Topics forum" topic. If anyone has any problems with how a proposed topic is being handled, they're welcome to inject input there. People seldom (never?) do though.The Eta_Carinae as a "Big Bang..." moderator sound like a good posibility.Personally, I believe in the need for the Proposed Topic system. But we do need more moderators/reviewers. But it is damn seldom anyone volunteers. Want to volunteer? E-mail me at mnmoose@lakenet.com, or e-mail one of the other admins.Adminnemooseus

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Comments on moderation procedures (or wish to respond to admin messages)? - Go to
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Considerations of topic promotions from the Proposed New Topics forum

Just sent him an e-mail (replying to his). I expect he'll be set up as our newest admin by tommorrow.Adminnemooseus

A couple of quick comments to Eta.From message 1:

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Since this board has evolution in it's title, let the threads be naturally selected. They shall whither or flourish on their merits.

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I think it is important to get a topic off to a good start. The various admins try to do some "natural selection" on message 1.If we pass a bad message 1 to be a new topic, it may well evolve into something good. But then we are getting something that I really hate - Good messages being buried in what are overall bad topics. Why would anyone new to the topic wish to wade through who knows how many bad messages, to get to a message that should have been message 2 (or even message 1) of the topic?I want the topics to be a series of quality messages right from the begining. Not "chat lines" that might have some good stuff buried in them somewhere.My opinion is, many of the best topics are slow to accumulate messages. A prime warning sign of a topic going bad, is that it is fast accumulating messages (the "chat line syndrome").From message 7:

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Why was the Bodes Law topic refused?

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I haven't recently studied that topic, but last time I saw it, even Admin_Eta declined to advance it.You may be one who is into distant cosmological considerations, but I think that considerations of planets around stars other than the sun to be totally disconnected from the creation/evolution debate. Sheesh - I'm inclined to think that considerations of planets other than Earth (geologist bias?) to be rather disconnected from the creation/evolution debate.We have all kinds of trouble discussing the formation of planet Earth. Why digress to planets light years away?Adminnemooseus (and minnemooseus)