General discussion of moderation procedures - Part 7

How about a 24 hour cooling off period. And maybe, during that cooling off, we will realize that we can all spend our time better debating the real issues.Edited by AdminNWR, : No reason given.

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This is the second call for a voluntary cooling off for this dispute.If people won't voluntarily cool it, I may provide some assistance.

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lfen received a 1 hour suspension for the first post you mention. The reason given (on the mouse-over message) was identical to what happened in your suspension.In the second lfen post, he at least acknowledged a problem in his edit addition to the message (before I saw the post). I chose not to suspend a second time, but it was a troubling decision and I am still not sure whether I should have handled that one differently.Shortly after that, I had to go offline. When I returned, the site was down so I was unable to see the post to which I am belatedly replying.By the way, putting in times is not very helpful without listing a timezone. The message number would have been more useful, since people could check that themselves and see the time in their own zone.

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I posted a topic warning at Message 91. You ignored that warning in Message 92, and were suspended for 1 hour. A small red mark showed next to your name, and if you allowed your mouse to hover over that text, you would have seen the suspension reason as If you never tried to post during that one hour, you might not have noticed the suspension.

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The proposed topic has been promoted to Basic and Remedial Fossil Identification

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The particular thread (Basic and Remedial Fossil Identification)is in one of the social and religious forums. It was placed there because the OP wanted to discuss the YEC view of fossil sorting, and not just the scientific view.Given the forum where the fossil thread is being debated, you should expect that debaters won't all hold to the same standards as are expected in science discussions.

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This issue has been raised for discussion among admins (the private forum).AdminFaith is new at administration, so I suggest you put this one down to a beginner's inexperience.

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That's okay. He can use his timeout to think about better ways of making a point.

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I will review the thread. The review might take a while. The particular thread was in the coffee house, where we allow a little more laxity.

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I have reviewed the thread. Although I consider the topic silly and frivolous, I don't see any serious rules violation by robinrohan. I don't see him as picking on you. I think he was criticising all evolutionists who are not nihilists - and that is just about every evolutionist at evcforum.He (robinrohan) quoted examples from a number of people, without naming the author. His comments such as "Doesn't it make you want to puke?" were comments on posted content rather than comments on the author.In my opinion, if anybody received a black eye in the discussion it was robinrohan himself. Very few, and probably none of the evolutionists, have agreed with his characterization of some posts as boasts.Sure, I can see why some of the posts might have made you a little uncomfortable. But, in my estimation, you have over-reacted.You are welcome to comment on this post. Any admins who disagree with me are welcome to present their own assessments. But others should avoid comment, given that this is not a debate thread.

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Welcome to EvC. I'm sorry that you have had a bad start here.The first thing to keep in mind, is that the admins are trying to be helpful where possible, When an admin comments about off-topic posting, take that as an attempt to be helpful rather than as a negative.When replying, please use the "reply" button, which you will find at the bottom right of the message to which you are replying. When you use that, we can see which message you are replying to. Maybe some of the messages that looked off-topic, would have looked more appropriate if we could tell which message you were responding to.Ringo was making a joke about your replying to old posts. But he did that in his usual sarcastic style, and unfortunately you took offense. Parasomnium was being sarcastic back at Ringo, criticizing him for the tone he took in response to you. So Parasomnium was actually defending you, yet you took offense at that.Calm down. You are not under attack.

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I'll just comment that I agree with AdminOmni's assessment of the thread in Message 121.

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I'm surprised that anybody is actually reading that thread.I gave up on it some time ago. I recognized it as an experiment to determine what happens when an irresistable force meets an immovable object.

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