Posted on 11/22/2003 7:25:36 PM PST by Lead Moderator
Edited on 11/22/2003 7:41:09 PM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]
"Pantless driver charged over kiddie porn"
Dr Who fans to mark anniversary (40 years!)
DRUDGE "THE 'LOVE' LETTERS TO 'RUBBA' THAT MAY DESTROY JACKSON"
Seeking Help for a Computer Problem (Vanity)
Oklahoma U. Qualifies for College Football Title Game
Man tries to smuggle bologna in shape of car seat over border
Screenless TV's Picture Floats In Thin Air
Syphilis Cases Rising In Idaho - many of the victims are pregnant
Michael Jackson: Take me to South America! (Midair meltdown as he returned to CA)
Teenager narrowly escapes crocodile attack
Dixie Chicks Singer Still Speaking Mind
All of the above were originally posted to news. That means that for a person having their settings for 50 threads at a time, their latest posts page would have had all of these.
All have been moved to chat.
But do they have anything to do with what our site is about?
Perhaps an argument could be made for one or two of them, IF the discussion went a particular direction. Big if, from what we have seen.
If you have an article that is something you think is funny or interesting or bizarre, but it doesn't really have anything to do with conservatism and in particular conservatism in America, please post it in the chat forum. We don't move over everything that should be, but perhaps we should and perhaps we will. We would prefer people to do the right thing on their own.
To be perfectly blunt, if I were trying to think of the perfect way to disrupt a website from its objective, it wouldn't be to come in and post things that would get me banned. It wouldn't be to come in and talk off the wall. It would be to come in and just gently steer the site to irrelevance. I am NOT saying I think that many of you are doing this on purpose, but I am saying that lately that has been the end result.
Please, show a little bit of sense. Post the news of the weird and the tabloid stuff and such over in chat. If it truly is as popular as you think, people will follow and that forum will pick up. If you post this stuff over there and that forum doesn't pick up, you will know.
Either way, please give it a whirl, and don't gripe at us when we try to keep the main forum in focus.
Proceed with the moderator bashing on this thread as is customary for these threads.
All the best,
Lead Moderator.
Those dang moderators.
Out.
It's no fun if you give us permission!!! ;-)
Things will get back on track when the next outrage happens, remeber 9/11.
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