[Eugenia Gabrielov]

After seeing some people weigh in, and discussing the issue with the wonderful Katie Reynolds, I think I can see it a bit better from a mod standpoint.

When there is a religious or political thread, and somebody posts something out of line, do you realize how many emails these people get about it? Not so much from discussion last night, but more from talking in the past, have I noticed that many of these somewhat biased threads give way to inappropriate discussion and thus webmaster and moderator stress. So how do you solve it?

I think that organizational threads such as the Championship Seder are appropriate in that they are not discussing religion itself, or what is right or wrong, but rather stating that there is an issue concerining it. If there were regionals on Christmas or any other prominent religious holiday, I'm sure the same sort of discussion would ensue. As someone above said, let people connect, but on a certain level, bad connections are made when people aren't tolerant of one anothers' opinions.

Most importantly, as this forum community gets bigger, there is going to be a lot more controlling and repitition of these threads. Tell people to search as you will, but it won't always work. Good luck in sorting out this insanely complicated issue.