Hello all. After reading strat and frisbee's argument, I decided some things needed to be cleared up concerning the Research Department:
1) The RD is
not superior to the rest of the board in any way and it was never our intention to pass it off as such. If we made it seem that way, we apologize for the confusion and effrontery. We are all regular members just like the rest of the you. One cannot simply join the RD to get the inside scoop on articles, because if you don't actively contribute to the pool of ideas, your membership will be revoked.
2) Because we are all equal as members, we all deserve to be treated with the same amount of courtesy and respect. If, in your honest opinion, you feel that the conduct of a certain RD member, as it specifically applies to the previous point, is detrimental to the rest of the board, you can PM Zombo with your concerns and he will promptly look into the matter.
3) Although we may release new naming conventions,
these systems are merely proposed for acceptance and are not meant to be foisted upon you as if it was canonical law. That is, you are welcome to use whichever system you feel most comfortable with, as long as others can understand what you are referring to. The alternative conventions we release are derived only through considerable research, and we feel they are more comprehensive and wider-ranging than what is already there. Of course, this does not necessarily mean they'll be easier to get used to initially. But if we didn't feel that a particular project would have a beneficial effect in the long run, we simply would have scrapped the idea.
4) Because there have been several concerns that the RD appears to be stagnant, I've proposed to use the rest of this post as an update thread on various projects we are working on. We cannot disclose every single project as some authors want their articles to be more of a surprise, but there are certainly many projects we can keep you updated on. RD members can PM me updates and I can edit this post or a mod can amend the status using information in the department.
5) Any questions or concerns addressed to the RD that don't involve areas of reasrch can be posted in this thread, or you can PM Zombo or strat. Any questions regarding research material can be posted here:
http://z15.invisionfree.com/UCPSB/index.php?showtopic=5980Thanks.