01-03-2003 12:22									#1
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I mean, the habit of posting articles and asking people to comment on them has become endemic over the past year or so. Can't we be a bit more original in our first posts?

	01-03-2003 12:25									#2
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Commentary on current events are always welcome in my books. They turn out to be some of the most informative threads.

	01-03-2003 12:27									#3
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I don't really have any problem with "Here's an article, this is my summary and opinion" threads. I get very tired of "Here's an article, I bid thee farewell" threads.

	01-03-2003 12:27									#4
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No problem with that, Asher. But too many times the OP (original post) is just a cut 'n pasted article with "comment on this" written at the end.

	01-03-2003 12:28									#5
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quote: Originally posted by loinburger I don't really have any problem with "Here's an article, this is my summary and opinion" threads. I get very tired of "Here's an article, I bid thee farewell" threads.

You feel my pain.

	01-03-2003 12:28									#6
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Wutang! That avatar freaks me out loinburger.

	01-03-2003 12:29									#7
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Ixnay does excellent work indeed.

	01-03-2003 12:56									#8
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I love loin's avatar. It always makes me think he has something intelligent and interesting to say.

	01-03-2003 13:51									#9
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Always makes me think he's airing his pits at me.

	01-03-2003 13:57									#10
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It's not that bad, John. Diversity is the key.

	01-03-2003 13:59									#11
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i want more advice on being a dad

	01-03-2003 14:14									#12
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Link!

	01-03-2003 22:21									#13
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Here ya go, Lancer:

N Korea ends Armistice

I mean, no offense to monkspider, but "this keeps getting scarier and scarier" does not an analysis make.

Here's a better example: Appeals court: Pledge of Allegiance still unconstitutional

No comment at ALL!

MRT: then bump my thread and ask me a question!

	01-03-2003 22:26									#14
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John, "this just in" Turkey said ok.

	01-03-2003 23:57									#15
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Instant Replay rules that Turkey fumbled on the one yard line.

	02-03-2003 05:35									#16
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This is annoying...

I post on several forums that have a policy that you can only post the first four paragraphs of an article plus a link.

This solves the problems of:
1) Posting whole articles is a copyright violation of some kind (I think).
2) Reduces server load
3) Keeps people from dumping a huge story and then commenting "How about that?"

Plus, the conversation is a little better since people usually go through the trouble to read the story itself and not just comment on the replies.

	02-03-2003 06:02									#17
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I'm guilty of doing the paste and run, but, in my defense the threads normally still produce a large amount of discusion. Admitabely a summory might be better but if someone is to lazy to read a brief article then they probably won't meaningfully contribute to the thread any way.

	02-03-2003 06:11									#18
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Freeper? I hardly know her!

	02-03-2003 08:13									#19
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www.freerepublic.com

Of course, I don't think this forum is "conservative" based, but the convention of posting news articles and just having people reply to them has been a staple of theirs for over 5 years.

	02-03-2003 08:32									#20
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Well, I am guilty of this some times. There are two reasons why I end up doing it:

1) I am really busy, so I don't have time to right up a large reply to the article myself to start off the discussion. There are sometimes major/interesting news events that I think would make for interesting discussions on Apolyton though, so I post the article even without the time write up a lengthy summary/analysis, and let the others pick up the disccusion if they think it is interesting.

2) Some articles you might not have that much say in response to what is happening. For instance there was a recent I article I posted about crackdowns in Zimbawe. I, as well as other people, replied to article with one line posts saying basically "Yeah, Mugabe sucks". In this case, I did so because I had no special insight to the situation as I am no expert on Zimbabwe, and I had figured that Mugabe's actions were pretty much indisputably wrong.

	02-03-2003 09:03									#21
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Sorry John, I'll try to add more analysis to my posting of news stories, it is something that I am admittedly pretty bad at sometimes. (Not adding adequate analysis that is).