Posted by: Concerned Viewer () on Wed Apr 16 16:13:08 2003

Jack,

I am surprised that you are letting this bickering go on. Maybe you haven't seen the posts recently, but they are far from baseball talk.

However, I do not suggest that you put the board into toggle mode. That doesn't really solve anything, and delays relevant and important discussions.

I suggest that you make this a private board. Make people sign up and login with a name and password. This helps in many ways.

1) no one can falsely post under someone else's name without knowing their password.

2) it allows you to be able to control the discussions better by suspending people's posting priveledges.

I'm not suggesting you charge us for posting. I don't believe that is your purpose for having this board. But by making people login in to post, you have control over them. That way nothing like what has happened can happen again. When a discussion degrades, you can take away people's posting privaledges instead of having to delete relevant posts and delay the discussion.