On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:58:42 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>I see that Vortex has acquired the religion/politics illness that affects >most forums. Or call it "poor health," where natural defenses begin to >fail, and opportunistic infections start appearing. --- Indeed. --- >We could ban politics permanently. Or temporarily limit the topics to CF >and nothing else. Or as a last resort, shut down the forum for awhile. >But first I'm using the trick which has worked in the past: kill it off >artificially. Stamp out every last vestige, then wait awhile to make >certain it's gone. If it slowly grows back much later, the forum's own >"immune system" might keep it at a very low level. --- The antibiotic strategy? IMO, Excellent! :-) Especially since you've set up "b" as an agar dish where we can watch not only bacterial but also viral infections plead their cases. JF
