Replying to Your Own Posts
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And some are trying not only to own the thread, but own the entire board as well. They are doing this not only by the number of posts and self-replies, but by affecting the tone of the entire board with each of their "contributions." They seem to have bullied most users away. Reasonable people don't have time for this shit.
True. Discussing these persons who act as "atomic topic generators" – with many threads of questionable value and unacceptable, vulgar headlines -- could even be its own thread, but here is good as well.
Like kudzu smothering trees, one or two individuals -- with their manic posting of multiple, throw-away threads -- are putting this forum into an imbalance. It will certainly not encourage gaining new posters -- and let's face it, P&D is fast becoming an echo chamber.
Suggestion to administrator: place a fair number -- say, four -- maximum new threads per person, per day. Those who abuse this limit should receive warnings, followed by a participation time-out (nice for temporary suspension). Please respond.
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And some are trying not only to own the thread, but own the entire board as well. They are doing this not only by the number of posts and self-replies, but by affecting the tone of the entire board with each of their "contributions." They seem to have bullied most users away. Reasonable people don't have time for this shit.
Yes, the toxicity level has me on the verge of never participating in this thread again. My call for civility calmed things down for a little while but now the childishness is back in full force. It's really sad and raphjd needs to do something about this. I've taken up for him for being a decent moderator and keeping his moderating separate from his personal views, but something needs to be done about the multiple same-topic threads started by the same person (mhorndisk) and then the multiple self-replying to those topics by that same person (mhorndisk).
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And some are trying not only to own the thread, but own the entire board as well. They are doing this not only by the number of posts and self-replies, but by affecting the tone of the entire board with each of their "contributions." They seem to have bullied most users away. Reasonable people don't have time for this shit.
Yes, the toxicity level has me on the verge of never participating in this thread again. My call for civility calmed things down for a little while but now the childishness is back in full force. It's really sad and raphjd needs to do something about this. I've taken up for him for being a decent moderator and keeping his moderating separate from his personal views, but something needs to be done about the multiple same-topic threads started by the same person (mhorndisk) and then the multiple self-replying to those topics by that same person (mhorndisk).
Yes, in a parallel universe, the four or five P&D progressives – most of whom are participating in today's discussion -- just got sick of trying to fix this sh-t, and moved to someplace like Queerty, which delighted the most hard-core GT neo-cons, who, going forward, could just rave among themselves on an otherwise dead board.
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You know I like to be the fact checker on this board. I reviewed the posts from June. Drwas basically spammed the board with multiple posts, most of which had no replies at all. There were about 5 in which he replied to his own post, but he waited anywhere from 30-60 minutes before posting a reply. In all cases, he was the only reply on the thread and it died there. If anything, he was guilty of posting subjects no one was interested in discussing.
Mhorndisk, however in multiple threads posts several replies in the first 15 minutes. I think his record is here: https://forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=51111.msg277877#msg277877
He posted 4 replies in the first ten minutes after the OP. It was just a rant, he certainly was not inviting discussion,
It has nothing to do with the content. It has to do with style.
I thought this board was meant to facilitate the free exchange of ideas, not simply be a platform to declare your beliefs.P.S. from the Rules for this Section:
" If you routinely post nothing but childish comments that do nothing to further the discussion, that is a NO NO.
If you can't or won't further the discussion, then ignore this section."
Excellent fact-checking! Unfortunately, this board is clearly going downhill.
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It's only going downhill TO YOU, because you don't like Trump. You can't stand to hear someone defend him.
