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Originally Posted by Andreas Brekken
I believe that this thread has started to swing towards what I believe to be the correct direction, but the board as a whole has a way to go.
Regards,
Andreas B
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First I can only be thankful for the well balanced points you put forward.
With that behind me I'd like to address the quoted bit.
Since TOCH! is both open for all kind of members and community driven I am afraid you'll never see this forum reach the standard you are referring to.
You could only achieve such a level of objective high end historical debate and research if you limited membership. That might be enough, but you'd probably need to have clear rules / guidelines to follow and enforce them.
This would end up being a scientific and restricted forum, membership on invitation (peer or otherwise) and far different from the open type we see on the internet. It would be a tool for a number of researchers and or historians only.
But as I am not a researcher / historian myself it is not my primary aim to provide such a restricted tool.
I'd be willing to provide (restricted or not) sub-forums for special projects, but I won't change this forum into something it wasn't intended to be.
I think the openness allows for a fresh influx.
Anyone who has an idea for a special (research) project can ask me to create a specialist sub forum, and such can be set with many special requirements (membership, moderators, passwords etc).