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<blockquote data-quote="YukonGlocker" data-source="post: 2653756" data-attributes="member: 425">Don&#039;t get me wrong, I&#039;ll support whatever decision is made.&nbsp; My opinion isn&#039;t based on the history of this forum, or me being a mod.&nbsp; It&#039;s based on years of blood, sweat, and tears of scientific study of communities such as forum communities.&nbsp; On the exact issues we&#039;re discussing now (and other related issues), I&#039;ve consulted professionally for Facebook, Twitter, IBM, AT&amp;T, Microsoft, the US Army, FBI, The New York Times, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Science Foundation, and several other prominent organizations that I can&#039;t name.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Whether I&#039;m a mod, or not, I truly care about this forum and can foresee great things for it...only if it&#039;s administered carefully.&nbsp; The structure of this forum needs an overhaul...a fresh start.&nbsp; The &quot;old&quot; ways didn&#039;t work that well, and neither do the &quot;new&quot; ways.&nbsp; We can either trust a few anecdotes that this or that will work, or trust the unfathomable data that&#039;s available which allows us to deductively figure out what works and what doesn&#039;t.&nbsp; I&#039;m volunteering a unique and valuable expertise to this forum...it&#039;s up to you all to decide if you want to build a community unlike any other, and better than you&#039;ve never imagined.&nbsp; You won&#039;t hurt my feelings either way.Rock on,YG</blockquote>

[QUOTE="YukonGlocker, post: 2653756, member: 425"] Don't get me wrong, I'll support whatever decision is made. My opinion isn't based on the history of this forum, or me being a mod. It's based on years of blood, sweat, and tears of scientific study of communities such as forum communities. On the exact issues we're discussing now (and other related issues), I've consulted professionally for Facebook, Twitter, IBM, AT&T, Microsoft, the US Army, FBI, The New York Times, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Science Foundation, and several other prominent organizations that I can't name. Whether I'm a mod, or not, I truly care about this forum and can foresee great things for it...only if it's administered carefully. The structure of this forum needs an overhaul...a fresh start. The "old" ways didn't work that well, and neither do the "new" ways. We can either trust a few anecdotes that this or that will work, or trust the unfathomable data that's available which allows us to deductively figure out what works and what doesn't. I'm volunteering a unique and valuable expertise to this forum...it's up to you all to decide if you want to build a community unlike any other, and better than you've never imagined. You won't hurt my feelings either way. Rock on, YG [/QUOTE]

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