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9. Sort of like a moderator in DU2, hosts can lock or hide threads ...

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 04:41 AM

Dec 2011

also, pin threads, appoint or remove other hosts, and block frequent or particularly obnoxious disruptors from the Group. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_celebrity

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I've just been approved as Host of the Science Group. [View all] eppur_se_muova Dec 2011 OP

You should pin and lock that SOP. laconicsax Dec 2011 #1

Can we please keep science-v-religion posts out of this forum? struggle4progress Dec 2011 #2

I'd like to host for that reason bananas Dec 2011 #4

In the other thread, there was support for adding the GD SOP bananas Dec 2011 #5

I'd be a willing co-host. laconicsax Dec 2011 #6

If it's not broke don't fix it. usregimechange Dec 2011 #7

What is a host btw? usregimechange Dec 2011 #8

Sort of like a moderator in DU2, hosts can lock or hide threads ... eppur_se_muova Dec 2011 #9

Something which parasites attach themselves to. dipsydoodle Dec 2011 #10

I am interested, if you still need someone. Chemisse Dec 2011 #11

Consider it done! Glad to hear from our science teachers. nt eppur_se_muova Dec 2011 #12

I for one welcome our new Science Forum overlord. n/t Wilms Dec 2011 #13

Hey now, where's the peer review process? This isn't science! Humanist_Activist Dec 2011 #14

Until science can answer the old question of cstanleytech Dec 2011 #15

Science answered that question a 152 years ago. laconicsax Dec 2011 #16