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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The 1% of posts that were thoughtful and interesting are not worth the 99% of posts that were just vicious, speculative nonsense, some of which included very personally identifying comments attacking teachers, parents, and administrators.  Please delete the entire thread. [/quote]

Amen! Take it down!![/quote]

I totally disagree. There are some posts that clearly crossed the line in terms of personal information, but many of the posts (and not only the ones I posted  :wink: ) were thoughtful and well-articulated statements of both the current and past history of what has created the problems in the Cluster. I get why you took down the CHCS Leadership thread even though I don't agree with the decision. The Oyster-Adams one is no better and still up there. I am a former Cluster PTA person of many years and find much value in seeing the variety of views on the thread.

Will you shut down any future discussions as well, even if they are devoid of personal information? [/quote]

I reserve the right to lock or delete any thread for any reason. But, normally, I am only interested in stopping obvious abuses such as spamming, sock puppeting, and trolling. In addition, I try to prevent anonymous posting being abused to attack named individuals and I will stop threads in which discussion has exceeded certain necessarily subjective bounds (such as becoming overtly racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.). That last category, being subjective, is the most difficult to be consistent and I'm sure many can find examples in which they disagree with my actions. Also, I don't read all that many threads. If nobody reports a thread, I'm unlikely to know about any problems with it. For instance, I know nothing about "The Oyster-Adams one".

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Thanks Jeff. I wasn't calling into question your prerogative to delete threads that are reported at all. What I meant is that I can see why someone reported the CHCS Leadership thread as containing personal attacks on named individuals even though the information pulled in to do so was from public sources, i.e., LinkedIn. I guess the comparison to O-A is that it also discusses the qualifications of their leaders in personal terms but apparently hasn't been reported.

I also wonder of the effect of deleting this thread. As someone said above, this is a long-standing discussion among Hill denizens, involving one of the largest, if not the single largest, ECE/elementary school in DC. I think it is like whack-a-mole. If you bonk down one head (of thread) another is likely to start afresh. I thinking locking the thread now after the last few pages is a good decision.[/quote]

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