GateWorld Vision Statement (Draft 2) Suggestions Welcome
What follows is the second draft in a working project -- a desire to reform GateWorld Forum into a place that is less hostile and vitriolic, where members focus their time and energies on those things they love about Stargate and not those they hate.
Thank you to everyone who has participated in the conversation so far! This is an on-going conversation among our forum "family," and it continues in this thread. I've gone ahead and closed the first thread, now with over 1,000 posts in less than a week's time, in order to try and keep this on-going conversation accessible to people who are just coming upon it (and making this second draft easier to find).
The start of a new thread should also demonstrate that while the spirit of what we are trying to accomplish remains the same, the first draft of the vision statement has been set aside and is not in force. After reading everyone's feedback I became convinced that there were some basic flaws that required I rewrite a new vision statement, which you will find below in post #2. Let's talk about what's actually in this draft from this point forward.
The new draft is shorter, and more to the point. Note that in consonance with our discussion so far, the terms "negative" and "positive" appear nowhere. (This was never intended to be a thinly veiled pitting of "Antis" versus "Pros," with us saying that the Pros now have their run of the forum and Antis can take a hike.) The term "hostility" does appear but I haven't substituted it for "negativity," because, though I think that eliminating hostility is a lot of what we want to accomplish, it is not everything. It's not only about curbing the fighting and failure to treat one another courteously, but about encouraging everyone to spend their time talking about those elements of the show they love, and not those they hate. This is what we meant by the use of the generic term "positive."
I have read every single post in the first thread, and for those who raised concerns about the first draft of the vision statement, I hope that you find this draft more agreeable. Again, it's a work in progress and not "settled law." Maybe we'll find that it needs a lot more discussion and another round or two of revisions, or maybe we're a lot closer now than we were at the start of the week. I don't expect we'll reach anything close to 100 percent endorsement, but I'm eager to hear what you think about the progress we're making.
In the continuing discussion, I and the other mods will continue to do our best to answer questions and clarify where our thinking is at right now. But there has been a great deal of repetition thus far, so I encourage everyone to press on to new areas and suggestions. This is still a work in progress, and while we won't reach 100 percent approval among members, we do want to make an honest attempt at incorporating the diversity of views.
Thank you to everyone who has participated in the conversation so far! This is an on-going conversation among our forum "family," and it continues in this thread. I've gone ahead and closed the first thread, now with over 1,000 posts in less than a week's time, in order to try and keep this on-going conversation accessible to people who are just coming upon it (and making this second draft easier to find).
The start of a new thread should also demonstrate that while the spirit of what we are trying to accomplish remains the same, the first draft of the vision statement has been set aside and is not in force. After reading everyone's feedback I became convinced that there were some basic flaws that required I rewrite a new vision statement, which you will find below in post #2. Let's talk about what's actually in this draft from this point forward.
The new draft is shorter, and more to the point. Note that in consonance with our discussion so far, the terms "negative" and "positive" appear nowhere. (This was never intended to be a thinly veiled pitting of "Antis" versus "Pros," with us saying that the Pros now have their run of the forum and Antis can take a hike.) The term "hostility" does appear but I haven't substituted it for "negativity," because, though I think that eliminating hostility is a lot of what we want to accomplish, it is not everything. It's not only about curbing the fighting and failure to treat one another courteously, but about encouraging everyone to spend their time talking about those elements of the show they love, and not those they hate. This is what we meant by the use of the generic term "positive."
I have read every single post in the first thread, and for those who raised concerns about the first draft of the vision statement, I hope that you find this draft more agreeable. Again, it's a work in progress and not "settled law." Maybe we'll find that it needs a lot more discussion and another round or two of revisions, or maybe we're a lot closer now than we were at the start of the week. I don't expect we'll reach anything close to 100 percent endorsement, but I'm eager to hear what you think about the progress we're making.
In the continuing discussion, I and the other mods will continue to do our best to answer questions and clarify where our thinking is at right now. But there has been a great deal of repetition thus far, so I encourage everyone to press on to new areas and suggestions. This is still a work in progress, and while we won't reach 100 percent approval among members, we do want to make an honest attempt at incorporating the diversity of views.
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