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MikeC
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Site Direction
Mon Aug 04 2008 06:25 PM

Here is a place to comment on the Site's direction.

When things like that (it seems Texas is not a big a draw as the east coast for reasons I really don't understand either) things are quiet. After 2004 and 2005 cfhc went into a permanent lockdown.

In 2005 we had such problems with endless misinformation posts and people looking for information were getting confused (and sometimes scared for the wrong reasons) by bad information.

So we turned up the moderation some, it's still allowed, but on the subforums. Since 2005 there hasn't been nearly as much activity, and the moderation style is a bit much for it. But again, its better than endless debates over if a invest in the Atlantic is a Tropical Depression and things like that. We don't delete anything, almost everything (excluding vulgar) is either left alone, moved to another sub forum, or sent to the graveyard.

CFHC is here for the long term, the main focus is still hurricane information, with a damper on the hype. We aren't everything, in fact I'd recommend checking out other sites too (check out the links). There are other sites that do a better job with certain types of back and forth discussions on the storms, but we aren't trying to do that!

We still welcome discussion and questions here. But the focus remains on information on the storm and keeping the official data as out there as possible with a focus on keeping the National Hurricane Center the final word. The saving grace of our format only becomes more obviously useful when things get crazy. (And it hasn't since 2005)

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