Jackie,
As you know, a petition was started some time back that was not followed through with at the time, due to a calming of the situation.
Here it is now, with signatures appended as received to date. You may want to edit actual names back in for submission to Anu; I have edited them out for posting here.
All who want to can reply here now to have their names added.
In reply to:
We the undersigned support the notion that the moderator(s) of this public forum should have the power to limit the amount of unsolicited spam and unwarranted flaming to which users are subjected. We support the codifying of this stance via a publicly posted message, appropriately highlighted. Here is an example of such an announcement:
[insert appropriate disclaimer here]
Moderator intercession may include the locking of threads, deletion of individual posts, or deletion of entire threads -- with the understanding that these actions would only be undertaken when normal communications and especially PMs have failed to resolve a conflict.
signed,
maverick
musick
Jackie
Father Steve
Zed
AnnaStrophic
Wordwind (in absentia)
dxb
Sparteye
tsuwm
Capfka
Fiberbabe (in absentia)
maxqnz
etaoin
inselpeter
TEd (& Peggy) (in absentia)
of troy
WhitmanO'Neill
