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Looking forward to improvements to the status quo.
Hi everyone,
Thank you for your patience. In the past 18 days, I have had a lot of PMs from people sharing their concerns and hopes. I want you to know that I have listened, and in the next 5 days we will be addressing many of those concerns, including:In order to make sure that we can make the forum a better place for everyone, I am going to:
- Overwhelming support to return to the christianforums.com site.
- Concern about efficacy of Wiki Policy
- Rules
- Desire for unbiased and fair staff action
- Fear that changes will adversely affect groups on the forum
- Gather a small group of advisory members
- Create private staff forums to discuss staff structure and policy going forward.
- Return the site to a more inreach focus as contrasted with outreach. This will not affect access for non-Christians.
- Work with Christian and non-Christian staff to determine where non-Christian staff may mod.
- Create a new policy for staff. Staff serve at my pleasure, they will no longer be elected or subject to member recall.
- Instate a reconciliation team to handle appeals, mediate member-member conflict, staff-member conflict, oversee staff, and make recommendations to my designee as concerns staff discipline, and or staff removal.
- Provide a wiki formatted forum for members to discuss a rule or provide solutions to a problem.
- Turn on the infraction system with some modifications.
What is a wiki?I been here for over a year and I see this wiki word but I honestly havent a clue as to what the heck this thing is.
I hear others say the word but I never asked before. For all I know it could be a doll or something like that, thats how clueless I am
This truly IS great news!!
But can someone tell me what or who mnphysicist and constance are? Are they CF members?
Looking like 7-7-7 is being rolled back in many ways.
Not discussed:
What is LeeD's definition of Christian for purposes of this site?
Some people make it happen.
Others watch it happen.
I'm one of the dumb ones asking "what happened?". Maybe someone could enlighten me?
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1. So is it true- are we back to the old "Christian Forums"?
- I thought that things had settled down here with For.U.ms and were working quite well.
2. Have we changed WEB Administrators? Erwin is in, out, retired, semi-retired, or something else?
3. Do we still have the same benevolent dictatorship structure- the WEB master is the be all and end all, and ultimate definer of the truth?
- This is something I really don't like because I am always nervous when there is too much concentrated power- that is why we have boards, committees, elected governments, etc. I think it is always better to have a structure that shares power and ensures that all ideas- good or bad, ultimately accepted or not, can be expressed, and that more than one mind ultimately decides what is best. Of course, if Jesus himself was the WEB master............
4. I would like Christian Forums to aspire to being the most effective world-wide church that ever was. It will never replace a true church of believers that can physically meet and share communion, provide baptism, etc. But there is a vast audience out there that wants to follow the Christian faith- but can't because of their location, political structure, etc. If this can be their church, and bring glory to God, then let's have more of it!!
Thanks.
Ok, Thanks.MNPhysicist is a Super A and Constance is the site chaplain.
Lisa
We are looking in to this and do not want to see them demoted at all. Will get back to you with something shortly.got a question on this...since they are not named here, will the Supervisors (yellow S) be promoted to Admins or demoted to Mods?
I won't be appointing all staff and please know the the advisory team will be a huge asset in this process.I have some concerns about the idea of all staff members being appointed by Lee... since that would mean only people who Lee knows personally being able to join staff, and that could be really unfair.
This is why we have the Reconciliation Team working on behalf of our membership as a safeguard.I'm disappointed that reports will be private again. I think it really helped people to see what mods do when working reports. Many of the concerns that lead to 777 in the first place had to do with secrecy, and the idea (mistaken or not) that staff did whatever we liked behind our closed doors. The openness has helped. I hate to think of us going back to the pre-777 animosity based on secrecy.
Debi joins in and throws her hands up in the air and yells hooray for Lee!* Gwenyfur lets out a huge sigh of relief
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