Math Is Fun Forum

Laura, that is really bad news, and very upsetting. "Really ill" sounds serious - could you give us more details, please?

Tell her we miss her, and wish her a speedy recovery.

Crazy Horse was an American Indian

If you are about to tell people, can I guess that it is famous for a breed of cow?

Thanks - that makes the effort worthwhile !

Oh, you are becoming famous, jam-pot, don't worry about that !

And hundreds of people read what you write.

Very Excellent !

I think it is ok to have short answers *occasionally* - sometimes a short word, smiley or image IS the best answer. So we could rephrase that somewhow.

People are now conditioned to avoid reading the "fine print", so we would want each rule to have a bold heading which summarises the rule.

But all-in-all, looking pretty good!

BTW I was thinking of putting the rules as a Locked "Sticky" at the top of each forum, or creating a whole forum with just the rules.

Some possibilities: Flourish, fruitful, truthful, fruition

That's what I am thinking - just puzzling over it now

Rora's suggestions (here) were:

No spamming. These kinds of posts include things that have no relevance to the topic, or are merely one-word comments...or comments that only have things like ": )" or "^_^".

No putting down others. I want this board to be a place where we discuss, not where we fight. If you've got constructive criticism to say, say it nicely and don't go overboard.

No additional accounts. You get ONE username, ONE account, and that's it! Any more accounts that you make will be deleted.

No bad remarks or comments about other people. It will not be tolerated. Other people have feelings like you.

Any person who chooses not to follow these rules will be chastised, banned for a short time, or even deleted entirely from the board.

And Zach responded:

My advise on the warning system would be this.

Warn - Ban (10 days) - Warn - Delete - Eternal Ban

The 10 days gives them time to reflect on their own reasons and such.

But, I'd advise caution on banning certain people. There are certain providers that connect through a single gateway (AOL and Comcast come to mind). By banning one person, you'll have banned -all- people on the board using that provider.
I can suggest some IP tracers that find the provider.

My answers:

River

Desire

You have a point. Sometimes peoples grades improve out of site when they change class/school.

I had a REALLY great teacher one year. He just wrote some stuff on the board and got us to practice what he wrote, then he would write some more stuff. We didn't know it, but after a few weeks we were nearly half way through the book - it just seemed so easy. I think his secret was how well he crafted each lesson - leading us gently by the hand into every new concept.