Community Management

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purpleglitter pointed out to me that we can change the permission level to allow any member to add tags to any post instead of having one new co-maintainer do all the work. It will be a wiki-like experiment for the community. Only maintainers would be allowed to create new tags, and we are working on a list of usable tags and they should be ready to go live tomorrow.

We will still be looking for another co-maintainer, and if you are interested you may still apply in the previous post. Having another co-maintainer will allow more consistent enforcement of existing rules. Looking back, posts that should have been flagged as ads were missed and with an added hand this will be less likely. I will also be making some other minor changes, including the criteria for determining what is considered a political advertisement.

Bottom line, I created this community primarily to promote discussion of local interests and the sharing of local information. Advertisements are and will continue to be considered second tier posts.

I apologize if I lost my temper, but the volume of attack was getting too great. Errors in enforcement will happen. This is not a perfect system. I want this community to be a calm happy place and over the next few days I will be making a number of small changes to make it again so.

Now I sleep.