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Misc 2019 Banter & Friendly Conservation

Brick Tamland said:
The moderation has become much more heavy handed, and there is no clear definition as to what is considered banter. It is confusing to see some posts moved to banter and some not that I would consider banter as well. Why would I want to try to participate in the January thread if I think my post might be moved to the banter thread? I could just post in the banter thread all the time, but that is not how I always want to participate in the discussion of the actual pattern or storm threats. It is frustrating and confusing. and I don't see really any consistency in what is considered banter and what isn't. If this is the way it is going to be there needs to be a clear cut definition of what goes in the banter thread.
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Brick,

When you joined the site we had maybe 25 people and 10 active. Now we have over 1000 and 200-300 active on a daily basis. When you increase your daily post cost by hundreds of percent you have to put rules in place to keep the threads from becoming the comments section on Facebook.

As for there being no clear definition, does there need to be? We've been doing this long enough to know by now.

The function to move posts is a 2 step process in the software and honestly is more trouble than its worth. I say that to say if a staff member moves 1 post by the time they are back in the thread there may be 10 new posts. We all have jobs and can't sit around and watch each post so some are caught some aren't. As Jon said there are probably more that could be moved.

Finally Im unsure of how moving posts to banter is heavy handed. There are no threats to ban, there should be limited to no warning points given. Moving posts is basically a suggestion of hey this post probably is more on the banter side than discussion. For example today when we were going over how we have had more storms in not good patterns versus good that really didn't belong in the January discussion thread since it was purely subjective.

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Back in my TW days I would have bought that op run hook line and sinker . SD and ARCC would have been bombarded with questions .

Those were the days . I hate being a realist now


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Storm5 said:
Back in my TW days I would have bought that op run hook line and sinker . SD and ARCC would have been bombarded with questions .

Those were the days . I hate being a realist now


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I would have put one toe in on that run a few years ago too. Its not impossible if we get steam separation. I wouldn't bet the farm on it but I think the follow up on the 28th/29th has some legs.

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Storm5 said:
Back in my TW days I would have bought that op run hook line and sinker . SD and ARCC would have been bombarded with questions .

Those were the days . I hate being a realist now


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But I bet “it moved a little”, as George Costanza would say


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I'm sure the question I'm about to ask is pretty elementary to some of you but remember I'm trying to learn. From what I've been reading it seems a Miller A is the kind of storm that produces best for the Atlanta area? Is that correct? Could someone explain the difference between a Miller A and Miller B?
 
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