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yes, i posted this before i read your steward re-tooling thread. the re-tool is encouraging. i agree that ideally adding a female or two to the mod team makes sense. i also recognize that a few of our former mods that no longer post here are female. The Dao Bums keeps on keeping on and it takes all of our efforts to continue this magical place. ^^

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nice and thank you dawei

lost another one.......glenn frey ^^ an eagle flies off into the great beyond

http://news.yahoo.com/end-europe-berlin-brussels-shock-tactic-migrants-104113981--business.html there are certainly higher level political debates about this situation than taking place here. the future is uncertain ( as it always is) things change

let's hope that is not the case. as far as being on a "roadmap to be banned" true, however a mod cannot really put members on ignore when another member has made a report for mod review. i expect that this was the case, a report or reports were sent to the mods for review. then the mod or mods may feel the need to take action (or not) 3 days isnt such a bad sanction. i recently had one myself. i deserved it and really insisted on it myself at the time. i didnt think i had put myself on any roadmap to be banned,,, shanlung is a member who i enjoy reading here on this forum. there are others that have been banned that i also enjoyed reading..... it is a fine line to walk, a mod is not in any envious position imo. mods are necessary. a few years ago pre 2013; The Tao Bums were a bit smaller, especially regarding the amount of sections we had available, yet, the mod team had something like 6 or 7 members, i dont want to leave anyone out but steve, trunk, taomeow, cat, serene blue, k, apech,,,,all of which i admired as mods and continue to admire as members here. and some of those previous mods are now no longer posting here at all. being a mod here can take a personal toll on you. the key is not to take anything personal imo the only member here in my estimation that has been in a tougher situation than any of our mods is, was new to this site and put in place as mod. a lone mod at one time even. and then as our first "admin" luckily, we still have an active here on The Dao Bums. thank you for not giving up on this place. i think what i am trying to say is, we used to have a larger mod team. there is a lot going on on this site and while it is always best to have a membership that self moderates. there have been times when that approach worked really well and some times of course it didnt and thus mods are a necessity. i have heard the argument that having too many mods slows down the process of moderation, there can be behind the scenes hard debates between mods. it takes a toll sometimes. but the alternative of having too few mods as the better model? i think it is too much for a small team, 2 mods? i understand we do have admin that could step in and do step in, there has been situations where an admin chose to take action that was against what a unanimous mod team had decided on. which may have left some mods thinking, why even have mods? it is tricky to navigate perfectly, some rare members were always able to push the envelope and circumvent in place posted rules by using clever tactics. i realize i am rambling here i would like to see another mod or two added to the team. this is useful when it is a mod involved in the fray directly, in that case that mod is able to step aside and let fellow mods deal with the situation. i am not second guessing our new mods action. i do feel he was put in a difficult situation that could have been avoided. we have stewards in place for each section or at least that was the concept, do stewards have the ability to moderate on some level what occurs in their section? it was never made clear to me what a steward actually does? we have great members currently serving as stewards here. i trust their judgement as i trust our mods and admin. at one time i was the lone mod under an admin. i understand some of the difficulties that go with that. whatever decision any mod takes or actions the mod team takes---there will always be opposition of that action expressed by some of our members. that is a good thing. these moderation logs help with the transparency ideal The Dao Bums strives for. is admin open to adding another mod or two? if so, are there any members that would be interested in becoming part of the mod team?

precisely the pic i posted is just 2 friends walking together

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discovery

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or else we could just go extinct. the shrinking brain isnt the only thing shrinking, Butstudies have shown that men today, across the population, have about 20% less testosterone than men the same age did just two decades ago. http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/01/13/testosterone-week-intro/ i think our great corporate researchers and scientific advances in nutrition etc have poisoned us.

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rip lemmy he became the second motorhead member to pass in a month http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lemmy-kilmister-motorhead-singer-and-heavy-metal-legend-dead-at-70-20151228

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"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." alejandro jodorowsky

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