desert dweller
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Post by desert dweller on Mar 9, 2017 13:28:34 GMT -8
It is necessary and appropriate.
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zeke
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Post by zeke on Mar 9, 2017 13:31:16 GMT -8
It will reappear, but in a modified form. This has been in the works for a couple of years, and recent events have just hurried it along. TR will remain clean of those threads.
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desert dweller
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Post by desert dweller on Mar 9, 2017 13:33:37 GMT -8
I hope you will be open to our opinions of the "modified form".
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Post by ecocentric on Mar 9, 2017 14:07:40 GMT -8
WHAT THE F***!!!
Are we yielding the trail to Trump and his financiers? Zeke, I will hunt you and BP2GO down with a case of scotch and drink you to your senses.
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Post by reuben on Mar 9, 2017 14:12:12 GMT -8
It is a high point of my morning to see who is indignant about what political crisis today. Wow. Just wow. I'd rather go hiking.
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Post by hikingtiger on Mar 9, 2017 14:15:51 GMT -8
This has been in the works for a couple of years, and recent events have just hurried it along. Did I miss yet another meltdown?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 14:17:57 GMT -8
This has been in the works for a couple of years, and recent events have just hurried it along. Did I miss yet another meltdown? I think "it" happened over here: bpbasecamp.freeforums.net/post/89404/thread somewhen. The racist supporters got butt hurt that they are racist supporters.
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Post by atvtuner on Mar 9, 2017 14:33:53 GMT -8
If you can't stand the heat, don't fry the bacon.
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Post by ecocentric on Mar 9, 2017 14:34:30 GMT -8
Bullshit, people that avoid conflict have no place in the wilderness.
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Post by atvtuner on Mar 9, 2017 14:50:36 GMT -8
The discourse will remain civil, or it will be deleted. Why do you change your name so often?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 14:56:05 GMT -8
The new section is up and running: Environmental Issues TPA went away. The new name is "Environmental Issues", and environmental issues will be the only topics allowed. That means NO strictly political, election, gun control, or religion We acknowledge that climate change, land use, and extraction industries all draw people to sides. The discourse will remain civil, or it will be deleted. You moderating the new forum?
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Post by rebeccad on Mar 9, 2017 15:04:01 GMT -8
The new section is up and running: Environmental Issues TPA went away. The new name is "Environmental Issues", and environmental issues will be the only topics allowed. That means NO strictly political, election, gun control, or religion We acknowledge that climate change, land use, and extraction industries all draw people to sides. The discourse will remain civil, or it will be deleted. You moderating the new forum? He's just quoting from the description. I'll let Zeke talk about the why of this, but I think anyone who's been in TPA knows that it's got nothing to do with backpacking and seems largely to just draw out the worst in posters.
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desert dweller
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Post by desert dweller on Mar 9, 2017 15:10:19 GMT -8
The sub-forum, Environmental Issues, does not allow for other sensitive outdoor concerns such as public lands being transferred to State/private ownership which is very political. The new forum forces members to curtail their opinions and sit quietly and shut up. Rather than censorship and limiting free expressions of opinions, a better action would to have more creative moderation in the form of warnings, reiteration of forum rules and examples of proper posting. Instead we get authoritarian action without member input.
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Post by zeke on Mar 9, 2017 15:12:08 GMT -8
TPA drew an inordinate amount of Moderator time and effort. It was not conducive to a friendly chat around a campfire. It seemed to draw out the worst in posters. The new section will be watched closely, until the message is clear.
As for it being arbitrary, nothing could be further from the truth. Discussions were held, cooler heads prevailed, until things just got worse. This change is actually what was intended originally by bp2go when he first set up TPA. There are plenty of places to discuss those other things, at other locations. Just not here.
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zeke
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Post by zeke on Mar 9, 2017 15:13:24 GMT -8
does not allow for other sensitive outdoor concerns such as public lands being transferred to State/private ownership which is very political. Land transfer would be very appropriate in the new section.
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