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Posted by Foolness
Sep 13, 2012 at 12:23 AM

Cassius wrote:
>basilides wrote:
>>Encourage all posters to be brief and to the point. I have noticed
>that recently many
>>post are long-winded and, in part, irrelevant to the issue at
>hand. Brevity and
>>relevance, please.
>===============
>My solution is to refuse
>to read any of the posts of those authors who exhibit the propensities of which
>basilides speaks.
> >-c

I agree.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 13, 2012 at 05:23 AM

Chris Murtland wrote:
>Note - if you click “My Account” under your name in the left bar when logged in, you can
>change your password, display name, etc.

WOW! I hadn’t even noticed that! (Or I did and forgot about it—this happens too).

Posted by Hugh
Sep 13, 2012 at 08:03 AM

Franz Grieser wrote:
>Hi.
> >First of all: Thanks to Chris a) for hosting the forum and b) for the offer to
>improve the forum. And c) for the clear reaction to Foolness/Fredy.
> >Franz

Franz, I agree. Many thanks to Chris.

Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 13, 2012 at 08:05 AM

Chris.

May I add another feature I’d like to see: the ability to filter out postings of particular members (and to turn the filter off again).

Thanks, Franz

Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 13, 2012 at 08:19 AM

I would suggest we develop a protocol for dealing with trolls. 1) How to identify a troll; 2) How to deal with trolls; 3) how to protect freedom of speech; 4) how to protect members against accusations of trolling.

The wikipedia entry does a reasonable job of defining trolling:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29

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