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[quote="Hal Womack"]B) blah blah blah

Is "makc" a volunteer in this APOD role? Are any of the APOD staff Federal employees tasked with the presentation of this feature?

C) I entered a question in the poll box at the bottom of the original posting page. Then AFAIK it disappeared. Have I overlooked the magic button?[/quote]

B. It was like this: Dan said to me "say, fellow, this site is boring and I have no time to clean up turds people leave here and there... and you seem to visit often so why don't you do us a favour". I said "Yep why not, not much postings to take care of, anyway". And - click - I got this "moderator" status. As noone pays me for this, I am doing it in the way that I (and so, hopefully, everybody else) would feel myself (themselves) better using forum afterwards (that includes not going over dozens of same threads). As I said, you may PM some boss to get yourself equal power, or you even can start poll like "makc should not be a mod. yes/no?"... Oh, wait - you can't:

C. Question is not enough. You should add 2+ answer options.

A) Looks like a [True Color] designation on the relevant pix might be of interest to at least some of us, should the producers in their wisdom wish to consider such a mutation.

B) WRT the protocol Q: Honcho "makc" got demonically steamed behind my simple, polite inquiry as a newcomer noting the rather forbidding attitude of the introductory declaration. Battle fatigue?

Is "makc" a volunteer in this APOD role? Are any of the APOD staff Federal employees tasked with the presentation of this feature?

C) I entered a question in the poll box at the bottom of the original posting page. Then AFAIK it disappeared. Have I overlooked the magic button?

D) APOD = My favorite Website of them all. I have been recommending it for years to one & all. IMHO we should quickly go a lot further in making such grand views generally available.

For now this is to B:

Yes, indeed, I lock many topics here. But this is because there are very same topics already started by other people. I think noone benefits from having 10 separate APOD-XX-YY topics - IMHO it only trashes the forum. I take time to quote original thread [edit: I don't do that [url=http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=5807#5807]any more[/url]], I take time to provide link to topic which I leave opened. I explain it to people via PM. It is me who stuck "Thank you for 10 years" topic - imagine having those 3 pages of same posts in different threads. Actually, I am simply taking care of flooding. If you don't like it, PM [url=http://asterisk.apod.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=6]Dan Cordell[/url] for moderator status, so you can unlock these posts and wreak some havoc...

Calming down... Slowly...

:evil:

To A:

I haven't anything to say. But, as it seems you are not the one who check other threads often, I can provide you a couple of references:

:arrow: [url=http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=578]New feature discussion[/url]
:arrow: [url=http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=576]False color discussion[/url]

so you can have an idea where threads like yours will end up.

A) Would it be worthwhile explicitly to affirm the "true color" status
of the apparent minority of APOD photos [other than mere B & W] which
fall into this category? E.g, the Ring Nebula of 23 July.

Sometimes, while admiring the patterns revealed by false color treatments,
I wonder if the universe looks prettier through APOD portals than it would
[or does] to the naked eye of the deep space traveler looking at it only through plain glass.

B) Protocol point: Since our honorable host & moderator aka censor wishes _a priori_ to exclude a significant number of topics of discussion, would it be both polite & helpful to provide links or at least explicit references to the various more appropriate sites therefor ?