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What is the deal with multi-posting?
Landing:
How do you know that Aine didn't send pms to people asking them to stop and pointing out what she saw as a problem and she didn't just get ignored? calling someone "harsh and unreasonable" comes across to me like you are trying to attack someone that is pointing out a problem and wants to have the mods input. Now you know that some people on the forum see it as a problem, you can either think about why they see it as a problem or continue to attack the whistle blower.
Fyrchick:
--- Quote from: laura118b on November 05, 2009, 05:32:30 AM ---
And yet the first post wasn't about trying to fix the problem, it was asking if it was reportable. Instead of asking someone to slow down, or just mentioning nicely that it's bothersome, the mods are brought in. It comes across as harsh and unreasonable to me, asking about reporting instead of just mentioning to the person(s) that it's a growing problem. How can a person know they are bothering people if they're not told?
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Ah, but they have been, now. And look at the response. The person asking is being pointed at as the problem.
Pointing out the elephant in the room doesn't mean you put it there. When someone feels the need to start a thread to bring up an issue rather than just bring it up in the thread the reason WHY should be considered.
The point is that 'just mentioning it' has become an exercise in futility and frustration.
Also, the people that are the greatest offenders are most often the ones that are the last to realize it. The single-minded Pursuit of Unassailable Logic and Rightness means that "I am not the problem. They are obviously not understanding what I am trying to say."
--- Quote from: ashton on November 04, 2009, 11:46:28 PM ---The boards are by definition public discussion fora.
If you want to have private, user-to-user conversations, use private messaging.
Otherwise, anything that you write is available for anyone on the boards to read, and to respond to.
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This thread fits that, doesn't it?
The reason they don't bring it up in the thread is because the people who are the problem constantly proclaim their own martyrdom as victims of literary persecution OR they proceed to pick apart the person or the request to the point that saying ANYTHING has become an act only slightly more fun than pissing into the wind, naked... covered in paper cuts.
In other words... Yeah, what Landing said! ::)
DragonFire:
Wow, this got vicious quickly.
I think I'm out of this discussion.
Themostocles:
--- Quote from: DragonFire on November 05, 2009, 07:53:44 AM ---Wow, this got vicious quickly.
I think I'm out of this discussion.
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How did it get vicious? There is no name calling or yelling. Just people discussing problems that face the forum, and expressing their opinions in a civilized manner. I hope we didn't offend you DF :)
Heretic:
Gotta say I haven't noticed a change in the (non-TT) threads overall. Fast-paced conversations, with lots of one-on-one exchanges, and multi-posting, have always been there. This is the first I've heard that anybody had a problem with such conversations, so it appears to me to be a tolerance issue, not an actual change in the tone of the book threads.
I agree with respondents who have pointed out that multi-posters - who have been doing so here for years - have no way of knowing anybody has a problem with their style of discussion unless somebody brings it up with them. Whether such direct communication on this subject would be an excercise in futility and frustration can't be confirmed until the attempt is made.
Alternatively, hitting the "Report to Moderator" button on one of those multi-posts would have brought the matter (privately....) to the attention of a mod, who could (at his/her discretion, of course) have taken on that direct communication as deemed appropriate.
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