New subforum? Meta-threads! OP plus Customized Rules.

[Boojatta]

Any ordinary DU member could post in the meta-thread to make an offer to moderate. Suppose at least one DU member (who isn't the author of the OP) expresses interest in the proposed thread, a willingness to accept the specified customized rules, and a willingness to accept a particular offer to moderate. If the author of the OP agrees, then the meta-discussion could end and a customized thread could begin in another subforum.

[patrice]

1. As long as you report headers that define the relationships . . . > or <

Enforce some flexible naming standards and let people read the semantic paths of all sets and sets of sub-sets and named members of each level of the organizational treeing.

[Boojatta]

2. What are naming standards needed for?

Anyone who offers to moderate can be identified by means of his or her DU username.

[patrice]

3. So participants can define their topic and share with others who do so in a similar manner.

It's basically shared definitions of terms in regards to their similarities and differences, a starting point for all other processes.

A beginning point for Participants in any purposeful dialectic. That is, unless, you'd prefer passive participants with a more authoritarian moderator who defines all sets and sub-sets.

[Boojatta]

4. "It's basically shared definitions of terms"

Which terms require definitions and what vocabulary is used to express the definitions?

[patrice]

5. The ones the Participants use and agree to in principle.

Vocabulary is partly usage, but is also established in references to contextual guideposts, in bibliographies, or other media.

[Boojatta]

6. Kick