We've now well past 300 messages, and the topic has fragments to all kind of subtopics.
Also, we had off or non-topic blather messages at messages 342, 361, 363, 366, and 368, involving four different members (one who is soon to get two POTM cites from the non-admin mode, for other messages). Short suspensions almost happened.
Please note the "Geologic Column" topic links in
message 370.
This topic closing down in about 15 minutes.
Adminnemooseus
Admin writes:
It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots.
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