Well, I agree with you, Holby.
However, it has been made
very clear to me that any discussion of TORC here is on sufferance; that many people wish we could all just move on; that in fact there would be a substantial minority at least who would vote to forbid discussing TORC at all.
I think they are wrong. I think freedom means freedom. But if we don't allow TORC discussion in open forums, and if there is no somewhat more private forum available, then we are setting up our first subject for censorship. What's next? I mean, if it's better for the board not to bring up one topic, why not lengthen the list to include anything sensitive or upsetting? To anyone?
I strongly disagree that it would be better to forbid discussion of TORC than to permit a thread in a non-public forum. And I don't think it will be possible to allow public discussion of TORC. It isn't supposed to be necessary at all—we've all gotten better and moved on, right? Or at least if we haven't, we ought to be able to keep it to ourselves.
Edit: I'm sorry—this subject still upsets me. I have
not moved on.
However, this forum I'm proposing is NOT private, Holby—it's not ToE. If somebody wants to see what we're on about in there, or in Business or BikeRacks for that matter, all they have to do is register as JoeSchmoe—no one need know who they are or were on TORC. It will take about two minutes, plus time to be activated.
But if JoeSchmoe finds that the latest absurdity on TORC is being discussed in a thread here, won't it be better if it's not a publicly readable thread? Won't it be harder for him to believe we're "bashing" TORC if we're clearly discussing it among ourselves?