We're at 300+ messages in a topic defined such that it could go most anywhere "evolution" (and it probably did).
Let's wrap it up. One last summary message from any member caring to do such.
Adminnemooseus
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Percy, in message 301, writes:
To moderators,
Except for the brief interlude involving SeekingFirstTheKingdom that wasted a lot of messages, this thread has been productive, temperate and on-topic. We're past 300 messages now, but I suggest keeping this thread open for another 100 messages or so and then taking another status check.
--Percy
OK (mildly embarrassed), I didn't see that message. Just like many members will not see this message. We shall try another 100 messages. But I still wonder if too many messages topics are prone to self-destruction.
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : See above.
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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