Time to wind this community up?
The events that this community was created to discuss are now passing into (recent) history and the processes of investigation and justice are starting to take their course; there is now less scope for first-hand accounts, and the "roll call" aspect of the community has largely served its purpose. I therefore think it's time to wind things up here.
Nothing will be deleted; the intention (expressed by several users) is that this should remain as part of the historical record.
I therefore propose to let it run on for another few days, and then turn the community over to moderated status sometime next week - new posts will only be added if they provide something that is factual, opinion-free and NOT available in the mass media.
If anyone has a radically different view on this, please comment - although this was the approach suggested a couple of days after last Thursday's events.
I hope the community has been useful - it seems to have provided a lot of first-hand and reported information and given people ways of getting in touch with friends/family etc.
Just as an admin note - I will be mostly AFK from tonight until Monday morning, so could the other members of the maintenance team keep an eye on things over the weekend? Thanks.
Thanks once again
Nothing will be deleted; the intention (expressed by several users) is that this should remain as part of the historical record.
I therefore propose to let it run on for another few days, and then turn the community over to moderated status sometime next week - new posts will only be added if they provide something that is factual, opinion-free and NOT available in the mass media.
If anyone has a radically different view on this, please comment - although this was the approach suggested a couple of days after last Thursday's events.
I hope the community has been useful - it seems to have provided a lot of first-hand and reported information and given people ways of getting in touch with friends/family etc.
Just as an admin note - I will be mostly AFK from tonight until Monday morning, so could the other members of the maintenance team keep an eye on things over the weekend? Thanks.
Thanks once again