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Policy Change for This Forum | 66 comments (66 topical, 0 editorial)

Re: Policy Change for This Forum (3.00 / 0) (#23)
by david anderson on Tue Mar 18th, 2008 at 11:47:13 AM MST
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There are actually very good reasons for allowing some off-topic posting, community building is the biggest one. Don't you want to be able to brag to your RE friends that you have made here, about you new granddaughter or that 60 pound salmon you caught?

What I have done on my sites is to allow off-topic blog posts from regular on-topic contributors. You can't get away with wholesale spamming, political ranting or making it your regular personal blog, but you can post about personal things that would be of interest to those that share the site. The general guidelines are there, but I am the sole arbiter of what stays and what goes.

And one other thing to be considered, AdSense. If they allow just any old offensive garbage in the diaries, such as "adult" language, google is likely to pull the plug. Advertisers don't like their ads being associated with certain types of content, so it is up to webmasters to police what is posted. The rules change when you sing up with AdSense.

Re: Policy Change for This Forum (3.00 / 0) (#27)
by TomW on Tue Mar 18th, 2008 at 12:07:18 PM MST
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david;

What I have done on my sites is to allow off-topic blog posts from regular on-topic contributors.

I agree. Look at this users history of posts. He doesn't qualify under those terms. It is pretty much all this political diatribe. Even used "come on" titles that sounded "RE" but it was just the hook.

Anyway, I can't expend energy on this today, with this flu I got, I would have to improve to die.

Another point that seems lost is that DanB gave me responsibility to "police" this place and I do that the best I can. He tends to have a hands off attitude because he seems allergic to confrontation.

It seems that if he cared he would comment?

Anyway, back inside for a shower see if I can drown myself quietly.

TomW

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."--Mark Twain
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Policy Change for This Forum | 66 comments (66 topical, 0 editorial)

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