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Sorry guys, I'd love to believe you, and I'd like to think that some of you can easily exercise the required amount of self-control, but unfortunately it only takes a few people to lose it in the heat of the moment and ruin it for everyone. I still have memories of what caused us to put this moratorium in the first place - some people here feel VERY strongly about their religious beliefs or lack thereof, and can't help but take personal offence to contrary points of view. I still remember 10-15 page threads of essentially circular discussion by increasingly ill-tempered protagonists, continually trying to "win" the argument for their side. Sometimes people just can't let things go when it comes to religion - they seem to think that they're entitled to enforce their opinions on others, no matter what.
Things have improved somewhat from a few months ago, and I certainly don't believe that anyone here intentionally goes out to cause trouble - but we're still not prepared to take that risk, for the reasons that Mouse stated above. I apologise for sounding cynical, but we've been burned too many times on that front, unfortunately. Try to look at things from our point of view (ie step outside your viewpoint and try and look at these discussions from a neutral perspective) and you'll see where we're coming from.
When we're able to go in here and find out that people are able to self-moderate themselves and conduct their discussions and more importantly their disagreements in a civil manner and have appropriate exit strategies that don't involve flaming, flamebaiting or dissing contrary viewpoints and PREFERABLY involve agreeing to disagree, without feeling stung or feeling or made to feel like you've "lost" the discussion (I've seen this happen quite a few times too from people when other people have tried to exit the discussion) then we will lift the moratorium. Not before.
So the ball's in your court when it comes to lifting this moratorium, really. Thanks guys - I appreciate your understanding with regards to this. [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ 08-25-2004, 10:11 AM: Message edited by: Memnoch ]
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