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You were reading me correctly. But just like the SM (whose lead I am following, insert different Airplane! joke here), I am flexible. If the overwhelming consensus of the religion forum is that the "insert-group-here only" threads are acceptable, then we can reconsider.

But if we do go that route, we're going to have to have a lot of discussions on how y'all are going to self police it so that the staff here doesn't get overwhelmed with it.

Did you see #617? I think Sidebar Monitors response is a good one. Is Post #617 the official position? It gets confusing when several moderators offer opinions / rulings which are not identical.

As a kid my brother and I were good at playing mom against dad. They made it a practice of conferring and issuing a joint decision and sticking with it.

If Sidebar Monitor suggests / requests one thing and you or Admin Moderator 1 suggests / requests a different approach, whom do we follow?

If the overwhelming consensus of the religion forum is that the "insert-group-here only" threads are acceptable, then we can reconsider.

But if we do go that route, we're going to have to have a lot of discussions on how y'all are going to self police it so that the staff here doesn't get overwhelmed with it.

I forward the questions to the respective denominational groups that I know of and ask them:

Do you think we can police ourselves in this regard - again by caveats in the thread header identifying this as a XXXXXX thread, whos intent it is to present doctrine etc

Perhaps as a parent thread

Subsequent threads could be used to discuss doctrine, questions, contradictions etc?

What think ye guys ?

I am willing to abide by such a system myself.

So I put forward:

1.) Parent thread (Identified as a parent thread) for the initial purpose of publicly presenting your own doctrine. Comment by non adherents to that doctrine is prohibited

2.) Daughter threads for open discussion - referring back to the parent thread

If you like it fine - if not fine - Im just tryin to come to an understanding while the mods are talkative and amiable ;)