[Jessica Boucher]

Well, I'm assuming that this is directed towards me, being one of the few mods that is not currently in transit from Atlanta at the moment, as well as being the one who closed the thread you pointed to.

Anyway, if you want to know, I was asked by another poster to close the thread...and I don't take those requests lightly.

Secondly, there are many ways to voice your opinion other than the fashion that you decided to do it in - one of them being the FAH Mailbox, the other being the Moderated forum. What's the good of these two venues if everyone decided to create a new username and post anonymously?

It's not about being scared of debate. It's about discussions getting heated, and thus causing unnecessary animosity within the FIRST community. These two areas allow discussion without the anger. And they're working....the FAH Mailbox has 14 thread questions, and 161 posts, whereas the Moderated discussion has 92 replies over its 3 threads....over 30 replies on average.

So, if you want to argue it that way, I was just keeping the process consistent with what the CD forum has agreed works best for us as a whole, and I encourage you to respect that. If you have any suggestions as to how to make the forums better, please bring it up under your normal CD username.