do i have the option of making this private? i don't seem to...

beginning from the identity matters group....

so i'm just trying to visualize what would happen if we had a couple different classes going here...

This webby post is in the "dis/placement" category....

ann apologized for "screwing up the categories,"
but it was actually noticing that
the "formulate a response" options--
clarifying, supporting, complexifying, weaving, challenging, unspecified--
didn't match the pull-down menu for "Relation of this post to Related Post"--
agrees, challenges, clarifies, complexifies, weaving--
which made me realize that these response/relation options really weren't working (for me).

from where i sit, we either need more/better categories or fewer ones (=none).
what we have now really doesn't work for me--
i can't ever figure out what box i'm supposed to be putting myself in!

on e-mail, ann said that she really disagrees with my proposal to
collapse the categories into one--this is not helpful, she thinks,
for having a meta-discussion about  e-conversation
(isn't that what we're doing here?) - that would be what
we have as regular ol' posts and comments already.

and not everyone is going to love/use the visual.

what do y'all think??

so, ann, for your information: when i create a new "root" (i.e. new thread, new thought) "summer sandbox" is the default option.

when i "formulate a response" no default displays, and i have to select my audience.

how many roots can the visual diagram accomodate?

maybe (given these visuals) we don't actually need the "relation of this post" option any more?
because these relations are too simple/not adequate....? and what we're really trying to show is
what the diagram shows, i.e. what connects to what?