Vote NO on the new GD rules!!!

[Robin Hood]

I know that the majority of you will flame me on this, i don't care. I think that the new rules, or any rules other than harassment rules are bad for this board. We are all adults and don't need grammar, punctuation, and subject line police to stifle our discussion topics.


Here they are in all their glory.

1. The subject line of a discussion thread must accurately reflect the actual content of the message.
While I don't personally have a hard time with this one, it is still attached to the rest of these lousy rules. it also limits creativity.

2. The subject line of a discussion thread and the entire text of the message which starts the thread may not include profanity, excessive capitalization, or excessive punctuation. Inflammatory rhetoric should also be avoided. Exceptions may be allowed for threads about our political opponents and/or policies which we generally oppose.
2#. Is too damn obvious to me. More limitations on speech and creativity. The moderators will become punctuation and grammar police. I know that some of you get off on those sort of power trips but it really does make you look petty.

3. If you post an article or other published content which is from a conservative source or which expresses a traditionally conservative viewpoint, you must state your opinion about the piece and/or the issues it raises.
3#. I don't necessarily understand this one. Why must someone post their opinion. I have found some articles that need no commentary(Though I usually can't help my self). Some articles do a good enough job of starting a Discussion all on their own.

4. If you wish to start a vanity thread (ie: a discussion thread in which the sole purpose is to share your personal opinion) you must state your opinion in a non-inflammatory manner which respects differences in opinion and facilitates actual discussion.
4#. I particularly have a hard time with this one. Not that I am disrespectful. I just think that it will limit creativity, and is to loosely based. And I will be livid if I spend some time composing a post only to have it yanked into oblivion by someone else's interpretation of this rule. This is a slippery slope.

5. No duplicates or same-topic threads. If there is currently an active thread on the first page of the General Discussion forum about a particular topic, you are forbidden from starting a new thread about the same topic -- even if your new thread provides a different viewpoint or new information. Occasional exceptions will be allowed when an active thread has a large number of posts.
5#. Let's start off by saying that there are a lot of good original posts that come out of replies, but are buried in a thread and deserve the attention that an original post would get. I don't think that it's right to limit possibly brilliant insights, ideas, information to a reply. This will not encourage the sharing of ideas and dissemination of information, it would only serve to stifle it.

As far as duplicates go. If I take the time to post on a subject that may have dropped away and I am not aware of. And i post my topic and someone kicks the same topic up again from page four, then my topic becomes subject for removal? Am I supposed to scan every post six pages back?

Those are my mis givings about these rules. I hope that you will agree with me and vote NO tomorrow on the new GD rules. Thank you for your support, and God bless America.

[gWbush is Mabus]

1. i agree with you completely

we, of all people,
should not be for censorship.

[Robin Hood]

2. Thank you for your support.

:loveya:

[dfong63]

3. i'm voting no

[Skinner]

4. I'm locking this thread.

If you wish to comment on the new rules, please do so in the thread which is provided for that purpose.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=439282&mesg_id=439282

Skinner
DU Admin

[realFedUp]

5. This isn't censorship

It's a way for good ideas, opinions, facts to
become clearer. Right now there's so much garbage
to fish through to find the core of a thread.
Like cleaning up your office, it will just be
easier to find stuff.

And if you want to be creative, there's nothing
stopping you in either the original thread or
the following posts.

It will also help moderators weed out the real
disrupters even faster.

This is a group site, not just for some to
throw around their stuff and expect everyone
else to clean it up.

It's just respectful of everyone.