New Punaweb Posting Policy

[Guest]

quote:

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Originally posted by Greg
...WWDD?

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Set up his own blog and have that same ebb and flow []

WWGD?

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My new blog

[StillHope]

Dirk,I totally understand your point.
Sometimes the subject is extremely important to a person who is possibly waiting for some answers.
But I agree with Greg -it's a natural flow of a conversation.
I think a word "highjacking" is way too strong for changing the subject,especially not on purpose.
I think an interested party can always turn it back to the subject or start another (similar) thread if a situation got out of hand.
Punamom,hope you don't mind me quoting you again:

"Highjack all you want as long as I at least get an answer..."

[dirk1609]

Using the recent plastic bag banning post which turned into a post about raciest terms, I could not think of a better way to describe it. That post ended with the raciest terms conversation because Rob stepped in and said "nice hijack". No more discussion about the banning of plastic bags took place after that. The thread died. That thread was hijacked and driven off a cliff or flow into the sea.

[Greg]

WWDD: Sorrry damon, but I was referring to Darwin. (directly preceded by the word evolution) It's hard being a smartassss with the written word.

You wasted a post, dude, sorry.
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Question:

Is this thread about:

A. Number of posts
B. Quality of posts
C. Hijacking of posts
D. Plastic bags
E. Evolution
F. All of the above

[Rob Tucker]

F. All of the above

Punaweb moderator

[EightFingers]

I don't have a problem with the new policy - I do more reading than posting anyway.

[Beachboy]

quote:

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Originally posted by esnap

A post starts a thread or topic.

A reply is a response to a post/topic or it can be a response to a reply.

Surely, Rob does not mean to limit replies.

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replies is where more than half the problems arise from! Of course they count![B)] Actually if I was running this ship, people would only be allowed to post 3 times a day. This would truly cut down on people who post, just to post. For some it's their only contact with humans!


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[aprild]

Five posts on average per day seems very reasonable. (In some cases, it even seems like too much.)
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Perhaps that will help the quality of posts.

Replies which focus on the individual (and assumptions about them and their lifestyle) instead of the content of their posts definitely need to be discouraged. This behavior is so uncalled for.

I second the motion to focus on the discussion (but I am in favor of the organic evolution of the thread which makes reading interesting) and on the ideas of the poster. Perhaps the actions of those in public life and politics, in particular, are not now and have not modeled the best behavior for the past 8 years. I think that behavior influences all of us. But we must be clear that we will not stoop to those low and impolite levels. Especially not over something as inconsequential as our own thoughts and beliefs. Some of these posts are really slanderous.

Since, in most cases we don't know the other person, how could we possibly know what they are really like? Or what their lifestyle is? And in some cases, what they really even think. One post does not a life philosophy make.






april

[Guest]

This is Rob's / Punatic’s forum.
By decree or consensus limits can be put in place at will.

Here is a speech by Chris Hitchens which is germane to limiting any speech.
http://www.thesitrep.com/blog/2008/02/26...of-speech/
Synopsis, limiting speech does not just limit the speakers speech but more importantly it limits the reader from hearing that information , which is tantamount to banning/burning books.

[StillHope]

Yes,you are right,this is Rob's forum.

And if someone's speech is a non-stop word diarrhea,

I am glad I am limited to be exposed to it.