Should there be a limit of 1 new thread a month?

[stillrobertpaulsen]

Makes about as much sense as saying this new rule should also apply to anti-Semites. It's just baiting, IMO.

[JackRiddler]

Is it respectful for Jack to claim that I post CIA propaganda?

I consider it a personal attack

Jeff
The charge or insinuation of "disinfo agent" can almost never be proven, and poisons and often ends meaningful discussion. Therefore suggesting a poster is purposefully spreading disinformation is not permitted.

It's not for me to decide whether it is "respectful." My claim is accurate.

It is not a personal attack. I don't know you. It is a comment on the content.

It is not at all an accusation that you are a "disinfo agent." That would require you to be doing it wittingly. From where I sit it seems you merely post the CIA propaganda, which you honestly think is true and not CIA propaganda.

Saying that is no more an accusation of "disinfo agent" than your own daily claims that what others here post is "Russian" propaganda or the like.

It is also not the only thing you do, though it's definitely the majority at times when certain CIA campaigns relating to Trump or Russia get hot, such as currently. You do some interesting and worthy things too.

In any case, the proposal relates to VOLUME not content.

How awful the stuff you copy-paste here often is doesn't matter very much. What matters is your insistence on de facto board domination through continuous thread proliferation, flooding, outbursts, and constant rehashing of incoherent personal vendettas.

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[seemslikeadream]

The fact that something is forbidden does not imply that it never occurs.

maybe there should be a rule about nit pickers


@ Jack


you are a toddler throwing a fit cause you can not get your way, starting these threads knowing full well it ain't gonna happen...sob away

[82_28]

I don't set the rules and furthermore the rules are there and everyone can understand them because they're pretty basic. Everything is still free in my eyes. For right now, to use a college football analogy, I am just going after "targeting". Thicker skin, unfortunately, is needed. All are free and nobody is getting shitcanned or admonished. But just for all members, I ask, think of how you would feel when something you say offends someone else. Jesus, does anyone remember unmoderated newsgroups back in the day?

No, no limits, just self awareness. Also, one post a month, I hate to say is Draconian.

Carry on.

[Belligerent Savant]

Is it respectful for Jack to claim that I post CIA propaganda?

I consider it a personal attack

Jeff
The charge or insinuation of "disinfo agent" can almost never be proven, and poisons and often ends meaningful discussion. Therefore suggesting a poster is purposefully spreading disinformation is not permitted.

It's not for me to decide whether it is "respectful." My claim is accurate.

It is not a personal attack. I don't know you. It is a comment on the content.

It is not at all an accusation that you are a "disinfo agent." That would require you to be doing it wittingly. From where I sit it seems you merely post the CIA propaganda, which you honestly think is true and not CIA propaganda.

Saying that is no more an accusation of "disinfo agent" than your own daily claims that what others here post is "Russian" propaganda or the like.

It is also not the only thing you do, though it's definitely the majority at times when certain CIA campaigns relating to Trump or Russia get hot, such as currently. You do some interesting and worthy things too.

In any case, the proposal relates to VOLUME not content.

How awful the stuff you copy-paste here often is doesn't matter very much. What matters is your insistence on de facto board domination through continuous thread proliferation, flooding, outbursts, and constant rehashing of incoherent personal vendettas.

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The above covers the core of it. The limit needn't be 1 per month (per user), but numerous PER DAY on what is essentially the same topic but with different thread titles is absolutely a detriment.

"de facto board domination through continuous thread proliferation, flooding, outbursts, and constant rehashing of incoherent personal vendettas" -- this does not equate to any sort of discourse with fellow forum members. To the contrary, it summarizes methods for stifling/drowning out discourse.

[overcoming hope]

Maybe there could be a rule that you can only post something you have read, watched or listened to? And if you haven't read, watched, or listened to the whole thing you say so in the post.

[seemslikeadream]

It seems you do not get it


Jeff's rules are not going to be changed or added to

[JackRiddler]

No, no limits, just self awareness. Also, one post a month, I hate to say is Draconian.

Carry on.

COME ON.

Not "one post." UNLIMITED posts.

One new thread. One NEW thread. One new THREAD.

You see? How many times do you get to add a headline to the list?

That is all.

It's possible that almost no one starts TWELVE new threads in a year.

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[overcoming hope]

^
I notice you now write with an unnecessary amount of spacing and double spacing. Another way to occupy space when you don't have a cut and paste on hand.

That was aimed at SLAD, but I guess it is spreading. I guess it is just a way to shout. We have to be careful it is going to look a baby boomers email chain. Lots of large fonts

[JackRiddler]

Just a way of making points clearly when they've been misread.

[seemslikeadream]

maybe we should have a rule about that also

Draconian = One new thread. One NEW thread. One new THREAD.

[MacCruiskeen]

The Problem (the sole instigator of which must never be named explicitly, on pain of suspension for "bullying", sic) is not new, very far from it. Nearly a year ago, The Problem was already so glaringly obvious and so damaging to General Discussion that stillrobertpaulsen went to the pains of introducing an entire new RI forum (News and Current Affairs) in a valiant attempt to divert the copypasta torrent. He also renamed the Data Dump and reminded everyone why Jeff and Drew had taken the trouble to create it as a separate entity. All these honest efforts were in vain, as we now see again again (yet again).

[stillrobertpaulsen]

The real problem is that the mods are lazy, shiftless and underworked. That's why I'm so glad we have Jack around to propose more work for them to do! Boy, I sure appreciated it when I was a mod!

Being sarcastic, of course.

Oh wait, did I just violate the new proposed rule about spacing?

[MacCruiskeen]

The real problem is that the mods are lazy, shiftless and underworked. That's why I'm so glad we have Jack around to propose more work for them to do! Boy, I sure appreciated it when I was a mod!

Being sarcastic, of course.

Oh wait, did I just violate the new proposed rule about spacing?

You are not being serious. Nor are you being honest, and you know it. You are merely being blatantly evasive and deeply unfunny.

[seemslikeadream]

OMG ...NEW RULE DO NOT BE UNFUNNY!!!!

remember when capital letters were the big problem, those were the days of wonderment


These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all