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[Algernon Moncrieff]

42. That's fair.

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My humble opinion: the ownership wants to have it both ways. As a result, we now have a site that is neither fish nor good red meat. On one hand, Skinner & Earl (paraphrasing things that Skinner has written) were investing more time than they wanted to invest in managing the site; recruiting and managing mods; and settling the periodic squabbles that break out from time to time. So they brought in the jury system to attempt to make the community self-managing; how well that has worked is a matter of who you ask, but the consensus would probably be "7" on a scale of 1-10. But management has also reserved the right to basically throw people out for whatever reason strikes them. Personally, I don't like it as a mangement style. Either run your site; make your site self-managing; or sell your site if it is too much of a burden. The way they've got it now, it's like a factory owner saying "we're going to let the workers manage day to day production; get rid of the managers; but if any of the workers tick off the CEO, they're out of here." I don't personally think it's the way to run a business.

And I realize I'm free to leave anytime I want. Atr this point, I enjoy certain posters enough to hang around, but I'm also shopping for another site. I'd like to find a site where Democrats treat Republicans as the enemy, not each other.

I've been here since 06 (I had 10K posts under another handle). I agree wholeheartedly that, "...the application of these terms of service causes us to lose people who made this a better, stronger, more diverse community and that really sucks."