The mysterious case of the missing conference question forum

You may not have noticed but the AA (GB) conference question forum has gone AWOL, it is no more, it has vanished, sucked mysteriously into some black hole which usually only GSO York can penetrate. But strange to say even this august body doesn't seem to be aware of its sad demise. According to the AA website (the only official website for AA in this country) the forum is still up and running:

Curiouser and curiouser! One enterprising member, however, had observed its parting and duly contacted the powers-that-be (but not a Higher Power!) to find out what had happened to the errant debating chamber. They received the following reply which they then passed on to us:

"Dear .......,

thank you for your support request.We decided not to run the Conference Forum this year for a few reasons:

1.    The Electronic Communications Sub-Committee is short on members who have the time to moderate the forum.

2.    The forum somewhat does not fit in with the Conference structure, where members views are heard at Group level, taken to Intergroup and then to Region for the Region's Delegates to bring to Conference in York. Discussion on an open forum is not part of that structure.

3.    The 2013 forum seemed to encourage the wrong type of debate and this does not encourage unity especially on a public facing site which  could bring AA into disrepute.

This decision was not taken lightly but the man hours of moderating for a very few members posting over the last few years does not seem a good use of ECSC time.

Regards,

…...... (ECSC)"

Comment: We'll let you reflect on the implications of this response.... Of course there'll be more to follow shortly!

Cheerio

The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)

PS Our thanks to the AA member for their contribution

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