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Old 19-June-2007, 04:34 PM
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I think Pace is right about the original purpose of the AtM section. Actually, though, I think that the new time limit is likely to cause problems with this original purpose. That is, since an AtM proponent only gets one 30-day chance to defend their idea in the AtM subforum, after that, there's a possibility that they will go back to bringing it up regularly in other subfora. I've seen a couple posters doing that, now.

So long as the Mods are on top of it, that shouldn't be a major problem. I've seen a few such ATMers in other subs get bounced right back to the ATM section if they brought up their "pet" hypotheses.
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