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POPSYou Can't Have A Picnic Without Ants. “Don’t feed the troll” Simple and surefire rule. Trolls feed on your reactions. Ignore them. Put comments under moderation. This way you can approve or disapprove of inappropriate comments. Don’t be overly sensitive just because they go against what you stood for. Debate is healthy. Ban them. If you have persistent trolls, you might just want to block them. This way they will not be able to wreck havoc as they please. If you remove a post, aren't you preventing free speech? Discussion boards are by design a forum for open communication, a place where the community is encouraged to freely discuss its opinions. Only remove troll posts when they become disruptive to open communication. A troll is actually silencing the voice of a majority of the community members. Ask the troll to take their comments elsewhere.
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POPSShould there be a legal limit on the volume of our music? This is such a tough call. Like many people, i love listening to loud music on my iphone - some songs just get better and better the louder you make them. But the idea that so many of us are damaging our hearing as a result is upsetting. On the other hand, enjoying loud music is so good for the soul. I suppose like everything else in life, even the volume of our music needs to be enjoyed in moderation.
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POPSTNH: "Some things I know about moderating conversations in virtual space" It’s an inescapable truth that for some people, the most interesting way to participate in online discourse is to kick holes in the conversation. Others—many of them young, but some, alas, old enough to know better—have a sense of entitlement that leads them to believe that their having an opinion means the rest of us are obliged to listen to it. Still others plainly get off on verbally abusing others, and seek out conversations that will offer them opportunities to do so. Teresa Nielsen Hayden, who has been dubbed "the troll whisperer" for her moderation skills, on the dynamics of trolls and flamers, and how to moderate a discussion to encourage participation and discourage rudeness and abusive behavior.
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POPSEvidence of Abject Delusion The truther petition was the least of it all. You have the mind of a warped Hate-monger with no passion for the truth in Masbury. Driven by vitriolic division and party politics, blatantly lacking any moderation in his contempt for the decent.
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POPSChocolate 'cuts death rate' in heart attack survivors "However, I do encourage those who are looking for healthier desserts to consider chocolate in small quantities," he said. "For individuals with no weight issues who have been able to eat chocolate in moderation and remain slim, I do not limit it," he added. The researchers caution that clinical trials are needed to back up the findings of their study.
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POPSClipmarks: NO REASON AT ALL NEEDED TO DELETE COMMENTS This was the thread that led to my asking Clipmarks for clarification on their comment deletion policy. It's official. {{Antara}}, and any clipper, is allowed to delete any comment on clips they initiate, for any reason or none at all. I personally maintain a "No personal attacks against other clippers" policy as my only reason for censoring comments. But if I just don't like you, your politics, your hair-color, your religion, your ethnicity, sexual orientation, your city of birth, the facts you offer... I can delete your comments, no consequences. The deletion pop-up reads Please only remove comments that appear to be spam or that you believe to be unquestionably outside the bounds of civility. But that's only a suggestion. I think this will lead to less discussion and a even more negativity and hostility between clippers, and I do hope Clipmarks reconsiders.
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POPSAAbuse of moderation privileges? Seems not [SEE COMMENTS] Antara disemvoweled my comment on her clip because she disagreed with my assertion of the facts. That's abusive and, I believe, against clipmarks policy/terms of use. I disemvowel comments that descend into personal attack, no matter whom. That's been my stated standard from when I started & I've stuck to it.. {{Antara}}, I call your actions dishonest and accuse you of being unwilling to engage in serious debate. Your excuse was I deem this one whiny, dumb but mostly just condescending nonsense ---so you win a vowel free post too! I stated the facts about HLG's arrest, his providing ID, and the racist history of the word "uppity" in America. I didn't make any personal attacks, and I defy you to point to specifically how my comment was "abusive". I call bullshit. I've written to Clipmarks to complain . 7/24/09: CLIPMARKS HAS RESPONDED. See comments.
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POPSDisemvoweler: A Moderators Best Friend I've had a stated rule in my profile that I will delete comments in threads I clip that descend into personal attack. What the disemvoweler does is confiscates the offending poster's vowels. That way as the clip moderator, I can delete & repost their comment with only the offending segment edited. An example: "I think the politician you support has a history of lying and taking bribes. You must be a mental deficient or inherently corrupt for supporting him." becomes "I think the politician you support has a history of lying and taking bribes. Y mst b mntl dfcnt r nhrntly crrpt fr spprtng hm." Confronting peoples positions, facts, ideas, logic, or arguments. Just don't get personal or you lose your vowels. So says the moderator
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POPSMy complaint e-mail to Clipmarks re: Antara Full text in case you don't want to click through to the screenshot: I'm the clipmarks user "spiritualmonkey". Is there some way to file a complaint against a clipmarks user? I believe Antara is abusing her privileges as moderator to delete non-abusive comments that she disagrees with. I point to this example http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/8AE40B3D-A41A-4D2E-B4BF-42067149143D/ I do not believe that the comment I left was in any way abusive or uncivil, and I believe Antara deleted it because she disagreed with the factual assertions made. Is this allowed? Can I get more clarification on what Clipmarks terms or use are regarding deleting comments? I've stated in my profile and I delete (and now disemvowel) parts of comments that descend into personal abuse, and I think I've stood by that. I want to know if what Antara is doing is Okay with clipmarks. 7/24/09 Clipmarks has responded
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POPSKissing Hank's Ass Choice A: Kiss it-Get A Million Dollars-someday Choice B: Don't Kiss It-Hank Will Kick Your Ass Note: Nobody knows WHO Hank is but Karl is pretty sure that he exists. More news at 11!
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POPSThe COPD Links Library For me and my smoking allies! Eat as healthy and fresh as you can in moderation! Educate yourself weather you are sick or not!
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POPSYemen To Train Freed Gitmo Terrorists The center would accommodate the inmates and their families, the paper said, citing well-informed official sources. A Saudi man released from Guantanamo after spending nearly six years inside the U.S. prison camp is now the No. 2 of Yemen's al-Qaida branch.
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POPSGive Us Our Daily American Bread I picked this doozy of an article, off the yahoo news menu... Not a good read to start your day. I think I feel sick. :-( After grasping what we allow Big Corporate Greasy Spoon, to put into our bodies, via the mouth, to help shorten our lives, I've decided to, never eat out again. That'll be the day. I need a little therapy for my Kitchenheimer's now and then and besides, it taste so good as you’re stuffing it down. (as long as you prepare yourself for the inevitable belly acid, yikes!) I guess eating out is fine (in moderation) if and only if you practice diligence in choosing body fuel that is the least toxic. Thanks HEALTH YAHOO for adding to my 2009 awareness cache. I think? :-D
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POPSIs Israel doing more damage to it's own interests than Hamas? This raises a question that every Israeli and its supporters now needs to ask. What is the strategic purpose behind the present fighting? After two weeks of combat Olmert, Livni, and Barak have still not said a word that indicates that Israel will gain strategic or grand strategic benefits, or tactical benefits... In fact, their silence raises haunting questions about whether they will repeat the same massive failures made ... during the Israeli-Hezbollah War in 2006. Has Israel somehow blundered into a steadily escalating war without a clear strategic goal or at least one it can credibly achieve? Will Israel end in empowering an enemy in political terms that it defeated in tactical terms? Will Israel’s actions seriously damage the US position in the region, any hope of peace, as well as moderate Arab regimes and voices in the process? To blunt, the answer so far seems to be yes.
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