EvC Forum: What religious rights, if any, are currently being eroded in the USA?

First of all, I'll make the suggested change to the topic title soon. For the record, the original title was "Willowtree on Religious Rights Erosion".

Now, concerning the use of member names in topic titles. I have long felt uneasy about such things. At least sometimes it can easily be (rightfully?) interpreted as mean spirited hostility towards the named person.

At the time I was studying the topic in preparation for moving, I did consider changing the title (BTW, only full admins have title change powers). Ultimately I left the title unchanged.

At the time of Willowtrees initial complaint about the title, I once again considered changing it. But I was split between thinking that while WT's complaint did have significant validity, so did Crashfrog have, in his choice of the title. Thus, again no title change.

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Message 2, from the administrator who approved the topic, raised an interesting point about thread approvals. I would advise against making public comment on editorial corrections, but to take the opportunity to fix errors prior to forming the thread. This could be done by requesting the original user to edit their post before it is approved, or making a minor correction at the time of approval. Notice of such minor corrections should appear in the original Proposed Topic area, and not in the new thread. Just a thought.

I assume this refers to the

"i" before "e", except after "c"

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Please, no responce to this ps.

This was intended as a friendly jab at Crashfrog. Quite recently he and I had been involved in an off-topic discussion of things spelling and punctuation, in which I ended up conceeding that I was wrong (It was about using "it's" when I should have been using "its").

The misspelling was trivial. I know I make such or worse errors. It wasn't worth bringing up, especially considering how clunky the "Proposed New Topics" system is. Forum policy is against any editing for content by the admins/moderators. I have edited proposed topics for format, such as inserting lines between paragraphs. I insert a note explaining what my edit was.

With the topic move system, anything the is in the source is automaticly in the moved topic. There is no way to leave anything behind, short of editing the moved topic.

One last off-topic comment. Normal forum procedure is to copy/move topics, such that the original is not deleted. This prevents links to the original location from being orphaned. There is no such problem involved in moving proposed topics. The original could be deleted. The reason the originals are not being deleted is because showing them is an aid in illustrating the new clunky system in action. It also provides more "Post New Topic" buttons. Once a better system is in place, I expect that the preserving of the original location will end.

Please take any discussion of the "New Topic" situation to How do you all feel about the new posting rules?.

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