Action! Notes.

Merge

• "NFL: MNF Becomes Political Football" — Merge two posts.

Notes: They were my own; I've been posting consecutively a lot lately, but I can't help that when hours pass. These, however, were short posts, and only about ten minutes apart, which is exactly what we try to avoid.

 

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Closure and Redirect

• "Will bill clinton go down as abraham lincoln?" — Worthless trollbait thread closed and redirected to Cesspool.

 

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Thread Merge

• "Domestic Espionage and the United States: The Politics of Pretending Surprise" — Politics thread merged into World Events, "NSA data mining of phone records".

 

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Closure and Redirect

• "This might be a stupid question..." — Closed and redirected to Cesspool.

Note: It is often said that there are no stupid questions, but only stupid people. This is insufficient. Yes, it was a stupid question.

 

Splinter

• "Misogyny and the Conservative Tradition" — Twenty posts splintered into new thread, which is now in The Cesspool.

Notes: What? I'm not letting that thread descend into another "look at me" ego fight.

 

Deleted Posts

• "Strange Bedfellows: Republicans ❤ Putin?" — Two posts deleted; one for sexual harassment of another member, the other to scrub moderated content.

 

Closure and a Note on Plagiarism

• USA wages war more often than just annually — Thread closed for topic post plagiarism.

Note: We're already cutting more breaks on plagiarism and other reference and citation violations than we should. So let us be clear: Plagiarism is one thing that can get us all into a legal nightmare. True, given the blogosphere we ought not worry so much, but the actual standard we have, while insufficient to genuinely cover ourselves, is still too much to ask of people. And this is problematic. Our basic standard is author and, when available, link.

I must reiterate the importance of that standard.

And there is a reason we have to make up a yellow card if we want to throw it for plagiarism: The only way to get a plagiarism violation in the system right now is through red-card.

Which means we're supposed to be suspending people for plagiarism.

Author and, when available, link.

Easy enough?

Good.

Thank you.

 

Splinter Note (post copy)

• "New, Improved Obamacare Program Released On 35 Floppy Disks" — Eight posts copied to new B&E thread.

 

Post strike

• "WHY DOES THE GOVERNMENT FEAR ARMED VETERANS? Part 1 of 2" — Two posts deleted; accidental reposts.

 

Closure and Redirect

• "Endless War" — Thread closed, redirected to Cesspool.

Note: Deliberate misrepresentation of sources is absolutely unacceptable.

 

Closure and Redirect

• "Oh! What A Lovely War!" — Thread closed and transferred to Cesspool for misrepresentation of sources in topic post.

Note: Members need to understand that misrepresentation of sources is simply unacceptable.

 

Splinter and Redirect

• "2016 Fun: The Worst Ticket" — Four posts splintered and filed in Cesspool for being off topic.

Note: There are a number of notes that might go here, but this is the thing: It wasn't even a useful change of subject. No, really. Ask about the 2016 election, and people change the subject to 2014 because, you know, Obama. That extraordinary degree of stupidity really is unacceptable. People need to use their brains. Being rude is one thing. And, you know, in political discussion, rudeness happens. But this? head ... vs ... wall.

 

Typos Happen. Coping is a Human Responsibility

• "And the Republican War on Facts Continues" — Typographical error corrected because it was apparently too distracting to the idea of staying on topic.

 

Closure and Redirect

• "Hillary Clinton, the next POTUS" ― Thread closed, removed to Cesspool.

Notes: Ranting, paranoid tinfoil is pretty common around here despite its general lack of factual or argumentative merit. However, specifically lying in order to support that parnoid, tinfoil rant, remains unacceptable.

 

Thread Merge

• "Give 'em Hell Hillary!"↱ ― Redundant thread merged in, all of a topic post.

Note: This was my own gaffe; the moral of the story is to always pay attention to the thread list, and then you won't do silly things like I did, starting another thread when there was a perfectly good discussion of the subject already underway.

 

• "Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Dead at 79"↗ ― Thread title changed for sake of general decency.

 

Xfer

• "Seasons in the Abyss: The U.S. Senate Elections (2016)"↗ ― One post moved for being in the wrong thread. (That was me ... sorry.)

 

Xfer (x2)

• "Republicans Conspire to Deny Trump the Party's Nomination"↗ ― Two posts transferred to "Mass Casualty Attack on Orlando Gay Bar"↗.

Note: I get to be embarrassed; they're my posts, originally sent to the wrong thread. Damn it. No posting before coffee.

Secondary Note: Damn it, the second time in a row.

 

Xfer

• "An Interesting Observation"↗ ― One post moved to "2016 Republican Presidential Clown Car Begins!"↗.

Note: Yeah, that was me, posting in the wrong thread―trying to make a clever cross-reference and then dropping the post into the reference discussion. (groan ....)

Oh, damn, this is becoming a trend.