For those who feel ready to move on.

It is obvious form reading the thread "what can we do to invigorate the board" That some members are still not ready to move on - no blame no shame. When the time is right you too will want to go on, don't push it, if you still have issues please stay with the other thread and talk it out.

BUT, there are those who DO want to move forward. Who feel uncomfortable - for any number of reasons with discussing the divivisness issue one more time. I have started this thread for them. Again no blame should be apportioned to those ready for the next step.

They are not "betraying a cause" neither are they " walking out on freinds" they are simply working through the issues step by step.

Does that mean that anyone who posts on this thread cannot post on the other one - no certainly not. In real life you have your "up" days and "down" days so here you might want to say something on this thread and then feel you have issues you need to discuss on the other thread.

This is about what to do next.

One of the issues we still have to deal with is to heal the rift between moderators and other members. To leave behind the "us and them" mindset. Does this make me/ us "crawlers" and "brown nosers" - NO!!! We just have to stop seeing them as "the enemy" and in particular jumping all over a moderator just because they have decided to post a reply. Debate with YES! trash? NO!

This is only one of a number of things we could do on this thread. Others include discussing how we could self moderate, What WE want the TOS to be for us, and exactly what constitutes "swearing" ( and THAT will be fun! We are from so many countries that our "bad language" will vary from person to person!) I have faith that we can debate that last issue without violating the TOS.

This is about the next step.