Anyway, most active members are active for at least 4 to 5 hours a day. What will attract members to be on-line here is not the titles, but a environment for healthy debate. After spending for almost four years here, there is virtually no difference between a Junior Members, Senior Members, JrTT, TT, Professionals or a PDF-Veteran, except for the different colour and a different name beneath it.
Of late, Mods are pre-empting members based on certain presumption from debating on certain issues by placing restrictions. This is undemocratic and a big dampener for members who wants to be active on this forum. Mods are there to facilitate/check discussion, not to pre-empt a discussion all together. Banning or issuing infractions is democratic, pre-emption is not.
Mods are here to keep discussion as productive as possible. Member's whose general start is derailing the discussion or flamebaiting are best NOT allowed to be part of the discussion at all. The same goes for member who parrot the argument without letting the discussion move forward and there is no presumption involved there. The Onus is on the members and not the mods
Moreover, for this mod/leader.. the orange/green titles based on number of posts blabbered out hold no value nor respect. What is respect are those that make it to TT or research as their post quality and balance in issues got them there. Certainly there are exceptions to that rule but then those overrides are by the forum admin and not by mods.
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This effort should ensure that it has people who are able to keep their emotions in check and work on academic levels. This is part of a transformation effort at PDF to get people out of the usual slander they end up at if they cannot agree by the 2nd reply.