1.  Just got the admin keys and there are a boatload more functions, settings and options than there were at D-O-V.  Please bear with us :- )

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2.  My first attempted action, from my shiny new Space-shuttle-type switchboard, was to delete the exclusively-profane content from the one guy who came in with the F-bombs etc ... and this had the effect of nuking virtually the entire comments thread.  I don't think it was reversible, but am fairly confident (gulp) that it won't happen again.

My bad.  As you know from the years at D-O-V, our policy is to debate dissension, not suppress it.  Hence this clarification.

The technical incompetence was mine, as oldtimers here will realize going in, not that of the admins/programmers who provide us with such a stable, streamlined platform these days.

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3.  The couple of guys who came in with the language and hostility -- and had it up on the site for a day or two -- shouldn't have led anybody else to believe that now PG and PG-13 profanity is within guidelines.  It isn't.  :- )  

We realize that nobody meant anything by it, but let's please return to zero profanity and to minimal accusations/personal criticism.   This means you, jemanji...

We went five months without any mod keys whatsoever and never needed any, so what does that tell you about the incredible MC/SSI crowd.  We went two days with visitors "getting away with" obnoxious profanity and personal attacks, but those two days be over.

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4.  As you know, not all tones and personal attacks are permitted, but all substantive ideas are permitted, analogously to the original intent of the U.S. Constitution.  ;- )

So the guidelines, and responses to violations to same, will revert to what they had been over the years at D-O-V.  Hope that's okay.  If not, please take a number.

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5.  Drive home safely.  You guyz da bomb.

Rock on,

Dr D