A board like this one is similar to a child which enters adolescence. One can make all manner of provisions for it and encourage certain behaviours while attempting to discourage others. One can set a good example and exhort others to follow it. But, as it is with offspring, one can't make 'em do anything.
Those who wish to keep this board focused on things lexicological may encourge this behaviour and discourage things which seem defocused or refocused or not focused at all. Those who wish to retain the creator's intent for this board may set a good example and exhort others to follow it. But you can't make board members do or refrain from doing anything.
If those who prefer to keep this thing mostly about words are successful, then AWADtalk will deserve its niche in the cyber conversation. If not, then it will degenerate to one of those chatty useless boards, with which the net is already clogged, like an impacted heifer. That would make me sad.
Father Steve
