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[Tennie]

I just want to find the sweet spot between Stop Having Fun Guys and Tragedy of the Commons.  I think that's somewhere left of TVT's 5P and off to the right of Linus Torvalds' management by perkele.

To be frank, I'm also in the same boat.  I want a place that is quite informal and welcoming, but is also able to get rid of stuff that shouldn't belong without going overboard.

I agree with the No Lewdness/No Prudishness policy -- though I hate the name.

Well then, we'll need to come up with an alternate name that nonetheless captures the same general spirit of the policy.  If anyone has any ideas, post them here!

I firmly believe that we shouldn't judge our self-worth based on others.  Goons mock people.  It's what they do.  TVT has a very strong group of yes-men who will mock us no matter what we do.

I merely phrased it that way as a way of suggesting that, should ATT become a cesspit, even TVT's criticisms would be justifiable.  The part about becoming a cesspit is something that I don't want to see happen.
Besides, I will (for the most part) take the stance of "haters gonna hate, mockers gonna mock".

All I did was post some theses on a wiki page, and somehow I was excommunicated from TVT.  So now I'm leading a revolution, setting up a new site that will become the moderate alternative.

In that case, I honestly hope that it doesn't lead to anything like an internet version of the Thirty Years' War (and what a clusterfuck that war was...).

As for avoiding controversy, that annoys me because almost anything can cause controversy, and in an informal atmosphere (like the one we are trying to create), an ideal stance is that everyone who joins the site should agree in advance that they acknowledge they may not agree with everything on the site but will still elect to remain civil despite their personal feelings.

This is pretty much one major point of mine.  I too would like an atmosphere that is at once informal and civil.  I personally don't like getting dragged into intense, vitriolic debates, but a debate where (A.) participants remain civil and (B.) that I have knowledge/information that I feel I could contribute with is the kinds of debate that I can actually enjoy.