Thread Reopen Requests 2

My closing coming message was: OK, what I was thinking was "1 hour for any messages in progress", not "1 hour for any grand summary messages". But that is not what I wrote.My impression is that the topic has been pretty badly thrashed, with most material belonging elsewhere if anywhere. If anyone wants to present a good reason why it should be reopened, post away in this topic.Adminnemooseus

Is your (and all the other admins) "Reopen Topic" button broken?Adminnemooseus

Yes.Adminnemooseus is about to get a 24 hour suspension.Percy gets a warning.Adminnemooseus

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AdminNosy promoted the apparently closed PNT in question, and this resulted in the new but created closed "Dates and Dating" version of Age Correlations and An Old Earth, Version 2 No 1.The is something to be said for presenting "grand unified topics". But they are contrary to forum rule/guideline 3 - "When introducing a new topic, please keep the message narrowly focused. Do not include more than a few points." The reason for that rule 3 is that the lack of focus of such "Grand unified topics" make for debate messes.I think the "Version 2 No 1" is a fine reference but not a viable debate topic, thus I'm for leaving it closed. I think someone needs to start up a new "Dates and Dating" topic that has more focus.Select quality replies to this message are welcome. But such should focus on the concerns of "broad focus vs. narrow focus topics".Adminnemooseus

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Very well - Why don't you open the topic then? AM

I did the closure. I guess I was feeling cranky the other night (what a surprise, the membership collectively thinks), and was under the impression that "final closing statements" had been happening over and over for weeks.Basically, RAZD and Straggler (and others?) had said what they had to say, knew they had done such, but still wouldn't quit posting to the topic. So I closed it (never did notice the Admin message ). Or something like that.Adminnemooseus

Topic reopened. Will do some message hiding.Adminnemooseus

As I more or less said at the topic closing message, I think we need a new topic with a new focus.Closed and staying closed, unless another admin feels otherwise.Adminnemooseus

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That should be be God damnit you shithead Mr. Moose.OK, I've overruled my ideals and moved the topic to "Misc. Topics". I even remembered to reopen the new location version (moving a closed topic results is another closed topic). The new location.Still need to get a better topic title on it.Adminnemooseus

The personal introduction part is probably over. Yes, on to theistic evolution or the lack thereof, and probably wherever else the topic goes. Somewhere along the line I'll get a better topic title on it.AdminnemooseusEdited by Adminnemooseus, : Change ID.

Probably a valid point, which makes the whole topics existence rather silly (or something like that).That said, the topic had run 479 messages, and I would hope that your point was brought up somewhere in there. As I see it, the topics not going to be reopened.And this topic is not the place to debate that topic's theme. So please, nobody else reply to the above message (or to this message).Adminnemooseus

I tacked a footnote to the bottom of Onifre's second final message, which contains a link to your message. That's all you're going to get.Adminnemooseus

Just Being Real posted here: My "topic closing temporarily" message: Damn, I'm good. Shut that sucker down just in time.Normally I do comma overkill. The above sentence really needed a couple of commas. It should have been: I'll now reopen the topic. Please, quality messages, not snark.Adminnemooseus

Re: ThisOthers might sneak a message in also, but I expect the topic will be again temporarily closed in the next hour or so.Adminnemooseus

AdminPhat said: Instead of a temp closure, he apparently put it into summation. I think the summation message pop up only happens once. I would be inclined to have it open every time.Members with admin linked IDs are exempt from the summation restrictions. I don't think that was a deliberate design by Percy, just a byproduct of the admin ID exemption.I'm pretty sure that admins can edit in even a closed topic, although I don't think they can post a new message in a closed topic.Bottom line - I think that topic is a terminal mess and needs a simple closure. But I will take it out of summation and then put it back into summation. That should reset things such that Faith can get one last summation message.Adminnemooseus