Why don’t you negotiate among yourselves what the guidelines for the Religion Forum ought to be and then get back to me? I cannot make any promises, because I do not make decisions in a vacuum - but it would surely help.
You said: Why don’t you negotiate among yourselves what the guidelines for the Religion Forum ought to be.
Good suggestion. A VERY difficult task. But an opportunity to improve the forum.
“Why don’t you negotiate among yourselves what the guidelines for the Religion Forum ought to be and then get back to me?”
Why would we bother?
“I cannot make any promises, because I do not make decisions in a vacuum - “
But that's what you're asking from us - to negotiate, essentially in a vacuum.
I'm reminded of the quip that one shouldn't expect to negotiate successfully with another party if one is negotiating amongst one's own party.
The problem here isn't that we need to negotiate among ourselves, but that you haven't really demonstrated much interest in the underlying problem. When the moderation here becomes interested, then it's possible that it might be resolved.
Until that time, we're just shoveling against the tide.
And folks like pgkdan, who is thinking of no longer contributing financially to this site, are more common than one may realize.
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