Moderator announce: Ponders' discussion of global warming

The moderation team has been following our discussion of global
warming.


When the topic arose, we considered it (marginally) related to ponds
and let it continue. We have been pleased that the general tone of
the discussion has been civil and respectful...qualities prized by so
many in this group!


As time has gone on, the thread has taken somewhat of a life of its
own and moved more off topic. We do not want to cut the topic off
and
we do not want to have rpm become filled with discussions of global
warming.


Accordingly, we are asking those making contributions to the
discussion of global warming to add their posts to the thread now
titled 'Ponders' discussion of global warming'. Civil posts about
global warming will be moderated as usual and passed on to the
thread. Uncivil posts and posts to other global warming threads will
be returned to their senders, who may modify them and add them to the
'Ponder's discussion of global warming' thread.


Thank you all for handling a potentially flame-filled topic in a
respectful manner.


Jim Hurley
Writing as administrative moderator for the rpm moderation team



Phyllis and Jim

When it was originally posted, it looked like spam trying to incite
arguments to me. I'm just ignoring it.


--
Gareee
(Gary Tabar Jr.)

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:50:32 CST, Phyllis and Jim
<> wrote:

>The moderation team has been following our discussion of global
>warming.
>
>
>When the topic arose, we considered it (marginally) related to ponds
>and let it continue. We have been pleased that the general tone of
>the discussion has been civil and respectful...qualities prized by so
>many in this group!
>
>
>As time has gone on, the thread has taken somewhat of a life of its
>own and moved more off topic. We do not want to cut the topic off
>and
>we do not want to have rpm become filled with discussions of global
>warming.
>
>
>Accordingly, we are asking those making contributions to the
>discussion of global warming to add their posts to the thread now
>titled 'Ponders' discussion of global warming'. Civil posts about
>global warming will be moderated as usual and passed on to the
>thread. Uncivil posts and posts to other global warming threads will
>be returned to their senders, who may modify them and add them to the
>'Ponder's discussion of global warming' thread.
>
>
>Thank you all for handling a potentially flame-filled topic in a
>respectful manner.
>
>
>Jim Hurley
>Writing as administrative moderator for the rpm moderation team

Jim,
An excellent decision/solution. Echo's of Solomon!

ron s

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:40:42 CST, "Gareee©"
<gareee-> wrote:

>When it was originally posted, it looked like spam trying to incite
>arguments to me. I'm just ignoring it.

Same here! I'm a bit surprised that so many people formerly from
rec.ponds responded.
--
Hal Middle Georgia, Zone 8
http://tinyurl.com/2fxzcb

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:39:38 CST, wrote:

>
>Jim,
> An excellent decision/solution. Echo's of Solomon!
>
> ron s

Not to nit-pick, but it wasn't the decision of one person, so not really a
Solomon moment. It was a consensus. ;-) ~ jan
------------
Zone 7a, SE Washington State
Ponds: www.jjspond.us

"Hal" <> wrote

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:40:42 CST, "Gareee©"
> <gareee-> wrote:
>
>>When it was originally posted, it looked like spam trying to incite
>>arguments to me. I'm just ignoring it.
>
> Same here! I'm a bit surprised that so many people formerly from
> rec.ponds responded.

Well, things are slow, it's that time of year, and people are bored.. LOL!

--
Gareee
(Gary Tabar Jr.)

Hal wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:40:42 CST, "Gareee©"
> <gareee-> wrote:
>
>>When it was originally posted, it looked like spam trying to incite
>>arguments to me. I'm just ignoring it.
>
> Same here! I'm a bit surprised that so many people formerly from
> rec.ponds responded.

Why? I didn't help start this group to avoid argument - I did it to avoid
purely destructive posts. As far as I'm concerned (and I know my attitude
is not held by all) people can argue as long as they want as long as they
don't get abusive.
--
derek

"Phyllis and Jim" <> wrote in message
news:87118123-879e-4106-be1c-...
> The moderation team has been following our discussion of global
> warming.
>
>
> When the topic arose, we considered it (marginally) related to ponds
> and let it continue. We have been pleased that the general tone of
> the discussion has been civil and respectful...qualities prized by so
> many in this group!
>
>
> As time has gone on, the thread has taken somewhat of a life of its
> own and moved more off topic. We do not want to cut the topic off
> and
> we do not want to have rpm become filled with discussions of global
> warming.
>
>
> Accordingly, we are asking those making contributions to the
> discussion of global warming to add their posts to the thread now
> titled 'Ponders' discussion of global warming'. Civil posts about
> global warming will be moderated as usual and passed on to the
> thread. Uncivil posts and posts to other global warming threads will
> be returned to their senders, who may modify them and add them to the
> 'Ponder's discussion of global warming' thread.
>
>
> Thank you all for handling a potentially flame-filled topic in a
> respectful manner.
>
>
> Jim Hurley
> Writing as administrative moderator for the rpm moderation team
>
>
Oddly enough you decided to reject a post from the person who started it.
BTW: Peter Pan and I took the conversation to another group and had
absolutely no problem. Maybe you should relax a little and wait until the
conversation becomes an actual flame fest.

Jim

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:58:23 CST, ~ jan <> wrote:

>On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:39:38 CST, wrote:
>
>>
>>Jim,
>> An excellent decision/solution. Echo's of Solomon!
>>
>> ron s
>
>Not to nit-pick, but it wasn't the decision of one person, so not really a
>Solomon moment. It was a consensus. ;-) ~ jan
>------------
>Zone 7a, SE Washington State
>Ponds: www.jjspond.us

Hi Jan,

Thanks for pointing that out. I think its helpful to everyone
in the group to know that the mods are working together with
consensus to deal with important decisions.

ron s

ps: Solomon had lots of advisors and counselors, even though he
often gets sole credit in the Bible.

Hi Jim,

Thank you for your post about our asking folks to post about global
warming to the "Ponder's discussion of global warming' thread.

I am not sure to which post you are referring in your comment about a
rejected post. Let me provide you with some info about the steps I
took. Perhaps it will help.

The moderation team was happy about the general civil and respectful
tenor of the global warming discussion.

We noted, however, that it was generating additional OT threads. We
want to avoid having OT threads begin to fill the board and we did not
want to cut off the moved-OT thread with civil discussion that our
members were actively enjoying, so we decided to ask people to post to
just one global warming thread. Once the moderation team had decided,
I posted the 'Moderator announce:' post.

Then I initiated a new thread with the title "Ponder's discussion of
global warming".

Then I reviewed all of the posts in the moderation cue. Those about
global warming, I sent back to their authors with a reference to the
Moderator announcement and a suggestion that they resubmit their post
to the new thread.

In response to your post, I have just reviewed each of the rejected
posts to be sure they had the resubmit element. They do.

If the person who received the rejected post would like to follow up
on it, please invite them to send me a copy at , my
moderation address.

If we inadvertently rejected a civil post or if I somehow failed to
suggest that they resubmit, I would be glad to apologize to them and
would certainly want them to feel free to resubmit it to the "Ponder's
discussion..." thread.

I would be glad to hear from you directly at the
address if you would like to follow up further on you post.

Jim Hurley
Speaking for myself and not for the moderation team