What would be the result of allowing Thread starters to Police thread participation?

Hawkeye frankly I am almost hoping that Robert would ask me to leave because this website seem to becoming populated with the idea that honest it very strong disagrees is a bad thing and that one viewpoint on each issue is the ideal state.

The whole idea that the ones starting a thread should have control of that thread would mean only harmless peaceful threads or threads with only one viewpoint in them would exist in short order.

You and I had both had been label trolls and yet both of us have defended our positions with facts and links far more then those who feel free to do this labeling.

A “gentleman” who seem to had added zero to any discussion other then name calling somehow had taken up Robert time of late with his demands that I be removed with you not far behind.

This place is a time sink but I would miss it.

Maybe Robert idea is not a bad thing Hawkeye as you would get to ban AM just to start with off this thread.

and the other side of the opinion would need to start their own thread, which would happen, so it would be like we have in America where the Reds and the Blues are self contained and self congratulatory, but America keeps going down the shitter because we can never work together and form either the consensus or the temporary alliances required to move the ball down-field. The beauty of A2K is that it is one of the rare places where different kinds of people still get together and talk. We used to have a vibrant and civil enough society that we could do this fairly often , now we can't. This failure to perform will never cause the intolerant puritans to consider that maybe that are not far superior to their ancestors as they claim to be though. By God, they prefer equality of the different genetic models of humans, so arn't they special!

I see nothing good to come from making A2k more normal, which means limited by police action. What offends Idiot Bill is that his bullying has failed to shut down the conversation that he does not want to happen, something that his kind have largely succeeded in doing through out the mainstream culture. We are the worst for allowing these weak people to invoke offense and thus control the rest of us. The proper thing to tell Bill is to shove off if he is not interested in the subject, or does not like the people who are talking. No one is holding a gun to his head an making him associate with demented folk like you and me.

Obviously I am assuming that most people are more open minded then Idiot Bill is, and that they are strong enough not to melt if there ears should happen upon strong language, that their will and souls are strong enough not to crack in the presence of flawed humans. Oh, but if I were the God idiot Bill takes himself to be!

If true then Robert is wrong to think that spending the time to write the code would be time well spent. However, as we have seen with the voting and the ignore function even bad tools that are at first resisted out of good sense over time gain popularity, as people decide that they dont want to leave power unused. I think that it might take a long time for what I am describing to happen, but that it would eventually.