04-01-2012, 07:00 AM | #1 |
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[April Fool] Platform Wars now banned from the main forums
The moderating team are pleased to announce the introduction of another opt-in only forum, "Platform Wars".
From today, any discussion of Mac vs PC vs Linux or iOS vs Android vs Blackberry are banned from the main forums. Any such posts will be deleted without warning. Persistent offenders will be warned and may be banned. This is a follow-up to the successful elimination of discussions of Politics and Religion from the main forums by the introduction of the opt-in Politics and Religion forum. If this new forum works well, we plan to introduce another opt-in only forum "Dead Horses", which will become the home for an expanding list of topics that will be maintained in the MobileRead wiki. Ultimately, we intend that MobileRead should only contain post that are precise, accurate, pertinent concise, polite and informative. All other posts will be relegated to opt-in forums or deleted out of hand. In this way, we expect to reduce the new message count on the main MobileRead forums to one or two a month, so freeing up valuable reading time for all our members. Welcome to the start of a new era for MobileRead! Spoiler:
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04-01-2012, 07:27 AM | #2 |
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04-01-2012, 07:40 AM | #3 | |
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Otherwise... no Platform Wars and less Dead-Horses sounds like a great goal to me. Spoiler:
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04-01-2012, 07:54 AM | #4 |
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webOS kicks a$$ on my touchpad.
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04-01-2012, 08:00 AM | #6 |
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Actually, Dead Horses should be a priority over platform wars.
The smell of a typical beatings post spreads across three-four forums for days at a time. We need better smelling posts... |
04-01-2012, 08:07 AM | #7 | |
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Aren't you, moderators, getting carried away a little bit? I do appreciate that you keep an eye on things, taming trolls and aggressive attacks, but this seems to be a little bit overboard. Shouldn't we - the long-time members have some say in this? By the way, where do I complain when I do not like what a particular moderator does?. Just askin' ... Last edited by pdurrant; 04-01-2012 at 10:14 AM. |
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04-01-2012, 08:30 AM | #8 |
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04-01-2012, 10:14 AM | #9 |
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04-01-2012, 10:18 AM | #10 |
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04-01-2012, 10:47 AM | #11 |
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I have a slightly better proposal: per user forums. Each user is given their own forum, to which only they can post. This avoids messy situations where people clutter our ideas with inconvenient facts or contrasting points of view.
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04-01-2012, 10:51 AM | #12 |
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I'm fully supportive of this move. I waste far too much time on MR. Reducing new posts to one or two a month would be a boon!
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04-01-2012, 10:54 AM | #13 |
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So the main 'News' forum would be used for only Apple bashing then? Nothing changed, is there?
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04-01-2012, 10:55 AM | #14 |
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04-01-2012, 11:41 AM | #15 |
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