Moderating:
Temporary_Name:
Each Hearing should have its own thread – but they should ALL have a similar TITLE format so if they were stacked they would read something like:
January 6th Follow along thread S2-E1 (Date);
Only after the thread has been open for at least four or five hours (once the proceedings have closed and a full hour for comments has passed), posters may be allowed to suggest a subtitle to follow the semicolon.The subtitle may be humorous or serious but must describe the content or purpose of that particular hearing. For example if I offered the following potential subtitles for past hearings, I am sure everyone would know which hearing it was referring to-
I further suggest that Aspenglow and ThelmaLou confer privately and have the final say on what the subtitle is. The original thread was ThelmaLou ’s, and we need the moderator to amend the title after the fact anyway. Beyond that, I trust the two of them to apply the right dynamic and sense of decorum to the matter as well or better than anyone else. Plus they will have the benefit of everyone’s input, of our suggestions before they reach a final decision.
I have been sitting on this for a little while now, and meant to wait until nearly September to post it. However, to give everyone a chance to consider the idea once again – to contemplate it, mull it over, ponder it at the deepest levels . . . I thought stating the idea again now was not such a horrible idea. In addition, once the Committee has published a date for the next hearing - - I would be very grateful if someone else would quote this dog (or even better, make their own impassioned plea for a similar solution!!!) and get it before the eyes of the teeming millions once more before Season Two of the Hearings officially starts. Or if anyone has a contrary view, I would like to hear that view as well.
After discussion in the mod loop, we’ve decided that the easiest way to moderate these hearings is to leave all hearings in one continuous thread, with notations at the beginning of each post where a new hearing begins as we have been doing.
The thread, together with this adjacent discussion thread, will be opened and closed as determined by P&E moderators deem appropriate. Thanks.