[tgslTakoma]

From FR's Posting Guidelines:

Don't jump threads - If you get involved in an argument in one thread, it's considered poor manners to restart the previous argument in the middle of an unrelated thread.

Does this rule still apply?

If so, why is it not enforced?

Because it wasn't enforced in the instance I linked to, does that mean that I can also post excerpts from the same pulled thread, without fear of:

a) having my comments pulled,

b) the thread I post them on being pulled, and/or

c)being banned for breaking the posting rule that was not enforced in the instance I linked to?

Another question...
...as the comments (that broke the posting guidelines) on the thread I linked to were cross-posted from a now-nuked thread, why not put the now-nuked thread back up in its entirety on FR - so that FReepers can see, and judge for themselves, the vanity thread that I posted, and the comments - in context - that were crossposted (breaking the FR posting guidelines) by the two offending posters?

I'm perfectly willing to take the heat for every word I typed in that now-nuked thread. I do not regret one word of my comments there.

I do find it incredibly unfair that only selected comments have been allowed to stand as some sort of judgement against me, and by extension, used as a condemnation of the DC Chapter.

By the way... what made that (now-nuked) thread too hot for even the smoky back room?

I await your answers.

[Jim Robinson]

They're "Guidelines" not "Rules." I'm not a cop. I don't want a lot of rules that MUST be enforced. I don't like racism, or profanity or personal insults/attacks, etc., but it's subjective. Pull, suspend, ban, etc, will often depend on the severity of the abuse and or whether the poster involved is a repeat offender, etc. I pulled the thread in question and it will remain pulled. I don't like people ragging on the forum and or the FReepers and you seem to be doing that a lot lately. A whole lot.

[Lead Moderator]

I'll answer your questions a bit later.

In the interim, when you ask about "what made that (now nuked) thread", it would be helpful if you told me what thread it was. Thanks, LM

[Texas2step]

If you get involved in an argument in one thread, it's considered poor manners to restart the previous argument in the middle of an unrelated thread.

Does this rule still apply?

I don't think this would apply to "smokey backroom" threads. That's what the "smokey backroom" is for, IMO.

That said, I think it's also stupid to "hijack" threads with conversations from previous threads, unless the threads are somehow related and the comments are relavent to the current thread.

[Lead Moderator]

Before I left around dinnertime last night, I posted asking you which thread you were referring to. About a half hour later it hit me which one it must have been.

But on to your post.

"From FR's Posting Guidelines...

Does this rule still apply?"

That guideline still applies. A guideline is not a rule. If guidelines should be rules is a question which can be debated and we'll consider the forum's feel as a whole. Enforcement of guidelines varies so that we don't have pulled comments everywhere and banned and suspended posters everywhere and so on. We have a guideline against profanity, and Jim lets a little BS go every once in a while and so do we.

"Because it wasn't enforced in the instance I linked to, does that mean that I can also post excerpts from the same pulled thread, without fear of: a) having my comments pulled, b) the thread I post them on being pulled, and/or c)being banned for breaking the posting rule that was not enforced in the instance I linked to?"

Whenever someone goes outside of the guidelines, the post may get removed at the discretion of Jim or the moderators.

I think it would be instructive to consider the intent behind the guideline. It is to stop flamewars and to keep a thread on topic. I look at the thread you linked, and the first post I see that takes the thread off topic and starts the insults is this one, posted by you. It is completely not surprising to me that things spiralled down after that.

"Another question... ...as the comments (that broke the posting guidelines) on the thread I linked to were cross-posted from a now-nuked thread, why not put the now-nuked thread back up in its entirety on FR - so that FReepers can see, and judge for themselves, the vanity thread that I posted, and the comments - in context - that were crossposted (breaking the FR posting guidelines) by the two offending posters?

I'm perfectly willing to take the heat for every word I typed in that now-nuked thread. I do not regret one word of my comments there. "

Suit yourself. I think that is a mistake, but go ahead.

I'll now take this moment to address some of your recent comments.

The staff here is not here for you to smear as not loving the military or their families because you are upset over certain forum decisions. Please stop.

The crux of why you are po'ed recently, if I am reading things correctly, is that you don't like how activism threads are kept in the activism sidebar and the activism threads favored by the DC Chapter are not put into the breaking news sidebar. The Robinsons had the software modified a while back, based upon the feedback they had gotten, to allow activism to be made its own sidebar. This lets the breaking news be highlighted by itself, and activism to be highlighted by itself. Activism was added as a sidebar to people's accounts. For this change, you have asserted that we have killed activism. That discussion can now continue.