Don't ask me how I got them.
So... how did you get them, laureanna?
<feels ridiculously proud to know that my name is on her list>
Impy (using your nick because I'm too lazy to look up how to spell your name
)... I, for one, am very glad that you "vent". Your views are always well presented and organized. You make sense.
It is very brave to post a view that you
know is not the majority view. Many people, like me, I'm afraid, are often simply quiet when opinions are running against their own beliefs. It takes a good bit of character to stand against the tide. I am impressed.
Don't go anywhere, dammit! I want to get to know you better!
I am personally quite in the middle, emotionally, about TORC; I can absolutely sympathize with your thoughts. And I will defend your right to express them.
<Ahem>
The only time I defended a friend here (in a perhaps "anti-Torc" moment) is when I thought her
feelings were being attacked... she was characterized as being "melodramatic" for simply, in my view, posting what she felt.
That should be allowed. By whoever feels whatever they feel. Politely, of course.. and I have seen lots of politeness here. And a few moments of unpoliteness.
But, I suppose, stuff happens.
I have a lot of hope for b77... I like the fact that people really TRY to mend rifts here. Even though the rifts seem to keep on comin'...
As to the actual question posed here: again, I think we are in a very volatile, very
temporary situation here. There are LOTS of growing pains.
Bound to be. Completely expected, that. Bad case of the normals!
Perhaps we should just shelve any new rules made to address this recent phenom of people asking to be banned... we know that it may not persist after we're an open board.
No drastic measures, right now; no voluntary bannings, no rules about NOT voluntary banning, nothing like that... not right now.
We can hang in there for the very short while until we open up, I think.
We really are okay.