Reply #243: Answers.

[Skinner]

1) We tried that. It was a failure. We're adults here, and we can use profanity responsibly.

2) Linking to validate posts is a good thing to do. But I don't think it is something we (as administrators) can or should force people to do.

3) DU is already a progressive forum. I don't think we need a special forum for real progressives of whatever.

4) People are welcome to discuss what happened on 9/11. But if anyone wants to push baseless speculation, they can do it in the dungeon. If someone belittles you, then alert so the moderators can deal with it. But if someone is ridiculing a ridiculous idea, that is within bounds. This is, above all, a forum for the discussion of ideas. And some ideas are ridiculous.