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Thread copied here from the Best Evidence Macro-Evolution thread in the Proposed New Topics forum.

No single individual is to blame, but collectively the participants have turned this thread into the worst example of snark I've seen in a while.About the definition of macroevolution, for the purposes of this thread macroevolution is defined as evolution above the species level. A gray squirrel evolving into a red squirrel is macroevolution. A fish evolving into an amphibian is macroevolution. A bacteria evolving into man is macroevolution. Included in this definition is the fact that such transformations require thousands to millions to billions to even trillions of generations, depending upon the degree of change.Please reduce the snark. Please be part of the solution, not part of the problem. I will suspend for one day those who do not appear to be following this request.Edited by Admin, : Grammar.

I'm flexible.

Hi IDScience,Could you please give some indication that you've seen the announcement at the top of the page as well as Message 79. I'm trying to put this thread on a constructive basis.If you do not reply to this message soon then I will assume you still haven't noticed my efforts at moderation and I will temporarily remove your posting permissions. If that happens then please send me a PM (Private Message) by clicking on the link immediately to the left of this message that says "Send Private Message."

Those of you who know who you are, could we please drop the attitude?Please, just polite and respectful discussion and debate.There's an announcement at the top of this thread. There are several posts from me in the thread. In case no one noticed, I already gave out a 1-day timeout to someone this morning. It's not like I'm being subtle.I'm closing this thread for one hour now so that this message has a chance of getting across. When I reopen the thread I will be indiscriminate in issuing timeouts, and I won't be making inquiries about whether you somehow missed the warnings.

Hi IDScience,You seem to be going off in a huff, and I hope it's nothing that I did. Thinking back, I'm wondering if maybe you tried to post while the thread was closed, and that you then concluded you'd been suspended.If that's what happened then please rest assured that you were not suspended, and none of your posting privileges were removed. All that had really happened was that I'd closed the thread for an hour to give participants a chance to read my moderator Message 114.I want a productive discussion in this thread, and that can't happen if everyone has an attitude. That means everyone, not just you. Since I posted my moderator messages I have noticed a marked reduction in snark, but you seem not to have noticed. If you still feel you're receiving unfair treatment here then you should post to Report Discussion Problems Here 3.0 and describe the specific problems.

Since IDScience has announced that he is done, I'm going to throw this thread into summation mode.