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The new Forums has been redone so that myscouting.org, Scoutbook, and Commisioners have subgroups. But there is no longer a place for folks with general questions about scouting to go. It looks like even old posts of that type are not available when searched for.
Is there a new place people should go to put up that type of post? Or, is that type of post now not wanted on the Scouting Forums?
I thought I was at the wrong site for a while.
It looks like they almost don’t want program discussed anymore. But is was a good place to have somewhat polite conversations.
I have no idea of how to interpret Ed’s response.
Sad. I wonder if it was the discussions around the costs and usefulness of the handbooks? Without more info, we can only guess it it was that, how sad.
I tend to read it as SUAC either doesn’t know anything, or can’t share what they do know.
Personally, I’d find it disappointing if the BSA chose to eliminate the program discussion areas. I suspect that all it will do is drive those discussions into other forums in which the BSA has no official presence, and reduce the overall utility of the discourse platform.
You and Matt, along with Quaze and a few others were / are some of my favorites for reading your posts. I’m doubting that will continue. Unless as you say we all just move along.
My son ages out of Scouts in a few months and I’m ‘just’ a MB Counselor, Unit Comm, and STEM so I don’t have quite as much vested in what they ultimately do.
Works. I now see 4 columns
Eligible Long-Term Camping Nights
Eligible Short-Term Camping Nights
Total Long-Term Camping Nights
Total Short-Term Camping Nights
And these accurately reflect that I do NOT have 77 short-term camping nights but 11.