General discussion of moderation procedures: The Consequtive Consecution Sequel

I posted out of anger so I had no objection to the suspension. Thanks, Dan, for sticking up for me. Hopefully it puts Tal under the glass a little bit more.Guess I need to try to stick more to the "brilliant" end, or failing that, "appropriately acerbic." Not getting involved with discussions with Holmes would probably be the beginning of that.This message has been edited by crashfrog, 03-05-2006 10:07 AM

I realize that locking great debate topics down to the stated participants is in the works, but before then, can something be done to make them a little more apparent from inside? I almost always view messages via "All Topics" and the Great Debate topics simply don't stand out from the 20-odd other forum categories.A new color scheme, maybe? Anything to indicate that the thread one is looking at is a Great Debate topic. I realize that maybe I'm the only one dumb enough to be accidentally posting in them, but it's simply because there's no indication that it's a great debate topic when one is reading the last few most recent messages in it.

I'm sorry but the title of any topic is far from obvious, especially when the link is taking you to the most recent message. The title is there when you compose a message, but so is a lot of other garbage, and it just gets filtered out when one is concentrating on writing a post. Look, I'm not saying it's not a stupid mistake, but all I'm suggesting is a quick change to the stylesheet. The indicators at present are insufficient - Great Debate topics are rare, and they look exactly like every other thread.

What would be the purpose of that? Davidson's ideas were put to the test, before you got here, and they failed. Open and shut.Why should I bother to beg access to a limited thread just to satisfy your curiosity? If you want to read the refutations of the semi-meiotic "hypothesis", search the archives. None of the rest of us are under any obligation to revisit the past simply to assuage your curiosity.