Proposal for Temporary Guidelines

[ellisonz]

22. I felt the old BOG had become irrelevant. Also, we posted within 3 mins of eachother.

17 OPs in all of 2011 aptly demonstrates that point quite adequately. How many times did you post in BOG in 2011?

I wanted to kick-start a discussion of what DU3 will look like for Obama supporters. If we don't want to go into that territory, fine. Leave it the way it has been and don't have any new guidelines to deal with the new ability to moderate discussion more effectively, so we can hit the ground running.

I wanted to get a wider sense of people's feeling of people's opinion of where DU should be going on this, hence the poll.

You're seeing nefarious intent where there was none. Dropping me as a host, was pretty petty, especially considering to my knowledge both the decision to ban pipomon and to drop me as a host were those of a single person. My intent was to have a collaborative effort to come up with some new guidelines to meet the new situation; that's not unreasonable.

Sign the petition. I've already conceded the point above. I'm man enough to see when I'm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12401581

"Who knows if it's going to be successful. But if we're not prepared to have some debate in this forum, we're going to really miss having GDP. Debate is the spice of life. And winning it is sweet.

I therefore concede the loss of GDP with disappointment that we could not revive it in a new, and some would say better form here in the netherforum of BOG."