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About the Graveyard
      Fri Aug 05 2005 09:50 PM

I put up the Hurricane Graveyard forum to move bad posts into. It's hard to come up with a general ruleset for the forum. But generally if it's alarmist, it goes there, if it's a "gut feeling" it belongs in the Forecast Lounge, if it's a sweeping generalization (You wishcasterz lol!) good candidate for a graveyard.

I dislike deleting what people wrote, even if it's bad, so we very rarely actually delete something (even then it gets archived).

Fact of the matter, we try not to wishcast. If anything I'd hope they would all spin fish and head out to sea. You'll find the main articles looking at it from the standpoint of why something won't affect land, rather than why it may.

Intensity is a different issue, and that's hard to judge. I usually suggest preparing for one category over what is projected, just in case. As we saw with Dennis this year, a sudden jump in strength can come along with a sudden drop in strength. But preparing for the Cat 4 approach was prudent.

Sometimes things get moved to the graveyard that were probably ok, we apologize in advance if this is you. We have several moderators, and each has their own threshhold. it's pure judgement, but if there is a doubt, I tend to leave it as is.

Repeatedly getting graveyarded will probably result in a posting probation, usually 6-24 hours where a speicifc user cannot post. Beyond that, an outright ban. Obvious trolls will be ground up and the banhammer will be applied.

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Subject Posted by Posted on
* About the Graveyard MikeCAdministrator Fri Aug 05 2005 09:50 PM
. * * Re: About the Graveyard MikeCAdministrator   Wed Aug 10 2005 10:17 AM
. * * Re: About the Graveyard Ryan   Wed Aug 10 2005 10:34 AM
. * * Re: About the Graveyard Lysis   Sat Aug 27 2005 08:28 PM
. * * Re: About the Graveyard ClarkModerator   Sun Aug 28 2005 02:05 AM
. * * Re: About the Graveyard Spoken   Sun Aug 07 2005 10:01 PM
. * * Re: About the Graveyard RedingtonBeachGuyModerator   Sat Aug 06 2005 03:52 AM
. * * Re: About the Graveyard MikeCAdministrator   Sat Aug 06 2005 07:34 AM
. * * Re: About the Graveyard Ed G   Sat Aug 06 2005 08:44 AM
. * * Re: About the Graveyard Lysis   Sun Aug 07 2005 08:26 PM
. * * Re: About the Graveyard MikeCAdministrator   Sun Aug 07 2005 11:23 PM
. * * Re: About the Graveyard ClarkModerator   Sun Aug 07 2005 09:47 PM
. * * Re: About the Graveyard danielwAdministrator   Sun Aug 07 2005 09:53 PM

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