Posted on 04/03/2003 5:49:36 PM PST by xm177e2
Take a look at the articles with the topic "Philosophy"--less than half of these articles can reasonably be described as relating to philosophy. "Soldier Is Relieved for Streaking on Base" or news of a dozen different bomb attacks--those are not philosophical threads! The same goes for "Constitution/Conservatism" and "Crime/Corruption." These are supposed to be, respectively, "Discussion of conservatism and conservative principles and issues" and "News and discussion of crime, corruption government abuse, power grabs, and scandal." Miscellaneous is probably the most-abused topic. Miscellaneous is for "Anything which doesn't fit into another category"--so if you've already put your thread in one category, DON'T ADD MISCELLANEOUS. This is pretty simple. Breaking News--the worst category, in terms of abuse. DO NOT PUT OLD CRAP into breaking news. Breaking news is for NEW news. If it has been posted before on FR, IT IS NOT BREAKING NEWS. It also has to be IMPORTANT news. Front Page News: this is for IMPORTANT news. I don't see much abuse of this topic. Anthrax and WoT should be pretty easy to figure out. States: this is news about specific states. DO NOT PING EVERY SINGLE STATE TO YOUR THREAD. That is incredibly stupid. PLEASE do not do that. Before you post a vanity or miscellaneous thread, consider if it would not be more appropriate in the chat/general interest forum. And of course, no discussion would be complete without mentioning the LEAST-ABUSED category: Vanity ("Your Opinion/Questions"). When you make a vanity post here, you MUST put it in this category.
What about subcuteanous abuse?
Intramusculer abuse?
A loading dose of abuse?
Catch-22!
No kidding. Pretty ironic, too, considering the "topic".
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