DG Site Updates: Fixing the co-op forum, 1 by critterologist

critterologist wrote:
The DG co-op forum was closed last week Wednesday.

Here is the initial thread discussing the closing: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/921605/#new
Further complaints or comments on this action by admin should please be directed to the above thread.

There seem to have been 2 separate issues with the co-ops: people "fronting" a co-op for a vendor to get around the "no vendors" rule, and too many Dmails and spillage into other areas of DG when co-ops go bad. Dave has verified (on the other thread) that these were indeed the major problems leading to the closing of the forum.

In this post http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=5769863, Dave said he would be willing to reconsider the decision if we could find a solution to those 2 problems.

That's what this thread is for. Please, constructive suggestions or feedback only! This is not the place for negativity or flaring tempers. If we can self-police this thread to keep it positive, Dave may have hope that we can find a way of similarly self-policing when tempers flare due to co-op problems.

There's another thread for discussing alternatives to the co-op forum, in case we can't figure out a "fix." http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/921953/#new Let's try to keep these discussions as focused as possible, to make it easier for admin and everybody else to follow.

Thanks, everybody!