Great writeup, Sarah. It was a pleasure talking with you about this new phase for the group. Although I was against the decision, it was for different reasons than most nay-sayers. I wrote a followup article that goes into my reasons (link below) but the gist is that, to me, AWP is a community that strengthens its users by pushing them to explore and share new WP concepts. Unfortunately, FaceBook's management tools weren't letting us efficiently prevent spammy posts from constantly filling up the wall. This change should help by making sure the content you see is high caliber. Nothing else has changed, and the group still needs the community to post and share content. Really, there is no difference. Every single post that's older than a day was reviewed and approved by an admin - otherwise it would have been deleted and you wouldn't see it. All that this change does is make sure our community doesn't get spammed by posts that would ultimately be deleted anyway.

~AJ Zane | http://azanebrain.github.io