OK, that’s a problem, I definitely should have checked with you first. I’m going to close the thread until I have time to clean up my mess.
And my apologies to @PDPrice . In my enthusiasm to try something new I acted inappropriately (did not seek your consent). II also erred by starting such a discussion with comment-approve turned on, which compounded my mistake.
This topic has been cleaned up to be closer to what I intended it to be. For non-participants I tried to keep the initial question and Paul’s first reply (if any). Other (non-moderator) comments moved regardless of relevance. This is admittedly somewhat arbitrary.
The topic is temporary reopened because I want to be sure my apology to Paul is publicly visible. I suggest any further discussion should be directed to how to better run a curated discussion, and I may move or not approve comments that try to continue the argument at my discretion.
Lessons learned:
- You shouldn’t pull someone into a curated discussion without their consent. That is no better than calling them out for an argument. Opening posts should be an invitation to participate in the curated discussion.
- It’s pretty clear that most people jumping in hadn’t been following the thread about curated discussion (or were ignoring the intent). We need comment approval to be turned on - honor system isn’t going to cut it.
- I think we need some guidelines for outside comments. Requests for clarification are good. Open ended questions are not.
- See comment [#13 @ho_idiotes] as a model for a really exemplary constructive comment.