Ed:
I think you had room to do what you say you want to do under the old rules. In the rare cases where things became just abuse rather than heated disagreement, people could be told to knock it off. Those who failed to take the hint could go.
The new rule is opaque at best, incoherent um, already. In its workable forms, it becomes the above or a useless Pit. In its unworkable form, a star chamber.
The Boards will go on, of course. So why the brouhaha? Not because you have lost the confidence of the posters, but because you have not had it yet. Maybe that’s an unfair view of your stewardship of these boards, but that’s how it is. In the eyes of the membership, when have you been here aside from the Melin thing and the Tuba thing?
A while ago, I posted about my enthusiasm for the benign neglect of these boards by management. It was only half joking.