Garpal Gumnut
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Give me your suggestions, complaints and feedback!
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I would not mind if politics was left right out.
Meanwhile I avoid!!
Regarding Join Date, I have had one since I joined.
And post count of #8, I have held that at some point.
Hardly relevant to anything, except trolling!
Garpal Gumnut
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Join date September 2011!
A simple google search may illuminate on the virtuous "gulamay", or on twitter @gulamay. If it is he or she.
ASF is a broad church and I welcome him nonetheless.
One wonders why he skips from forum to forum.
Perhaps it is because of his brilliance.
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Just briefly on this topic:
We do not screen those registering at ASF on the basis of their political views or allegiances. Also, we do not moderate on the basis of anyone's views, political or otherwise, unless those views violate the ASF TOU, of which there is no political component.
If the ASF membership appears to lean to the right, then that is simply because a majority of those who have registered and participate at ASF lean to the right. It has not been planned or engineered in any way. That is just the way that the ASF community has evolved over time.
We do not screen those registering at ASF on the basis of their political views or allegiances. Also, we do not moderate on the basis of anyone's views, political or otherwise, unless those views violate the ASF TOU, of which there is no political component.
If the ASF membership appears to lean to the right, then that is simply because a majority of those who have registered and participate at ASF lean to the right. It has not been planned or engineered in any way. That is just the way that the ASF community has evolved over time.
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I dont think myself, or anyone else was suggesting that there was any screening or bias, sorry if my observations came across that way.
My reflections were simply giving feedback as per the thread request, and as noted its not a big deal for me as I just ignore this sort of content.
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Was just responding generally as the same observation has been made before. I suppose it stands to reason that a stock market forum will lean more to the right than the left.
Apologies if I seemed a little terse in my reply. I assure you it wasn't intentional.
Many thanks for the feedback!
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Joe, this seems to be typical on other stock market forums which I have visited so it's not unique to ASF.
And what is also typical elsewhere is that anyone who is looking for a change of government are often rudely labelled as radical and extremist by the left. That is unnecessary, imo, and only flames angry responses.
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And not surprisingly I also agree.
There is much to like about ASF. I have certainly gained value from thoughtful share research (and offered my own observations).
But the aggressiveness of many posters on the political and social forums is, IMO , needlessly nasty.
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Feature Suggestion:
A mechanism for embedding a link in the quote metadata e.g.
The entry code would be:
The result would look like:
A mechanism for embedding a link in the quote metadata e.g.
The entry code would be:
The result would look like:
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That is already a feature now. Have a look here which is my response to another of your posts.
Cheers
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I thought that was for referencing ASF posts? i.e. How do I embed an external link as a QUOTE attribute?
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Longer time to edit your own posts.
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Yes, but in the quote header in the same manner that you can reference another ASF post.
http://www.google.com said:
Where the link (or a symbol similar to the green one for ASF posts) is a link to the article you are quoting from.
Would it be a possibility to either limit the amount of political threads (as happened in the merged "all-purpose" property thread)? If that is not a possibility perhaps a separate "political" only sub-forum could be added? I personally feel that there are too many of these threads over-running the general forum. The graveyard bumping of inactive threads / posting of new threads often seems a bit superfluous and unnecessary.
You may say I don't have to click on these threads, but I often see them fill up my "latest posts" list. If there were less threads those who avoid them would hardly notice them and the actual investing stock threads would be easier to spot in this list.
You may say I don't have to click on these threads, but I often see them fill up my "latest posts" list. If there were less threads those who avoid them would hardly notice them and the actual investing stock threads would be easier to spot in this list.
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Would it be a possibility to either limit the amount of political threads (as happened in the merged "all-purpose" property thread)? If that is not a possibility perhaps a separate "political" only sub-forum could be added? I personally feel that there are too many of these threads over-running the general forum. The graveyard bumping of inactive threads / posting of new threads often seems a bit superfluous and unnecessary.
You may say I don't have to click on these threads, but I often see them fill up my "latest posts" list. If there were less threads those who avoid them would hardly notice them and the actual investing stock threads would be easier to spot in this list.
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This is not currently a feature of the forum software. However, it may be able to be modified to allow this.
My concern is that this would probably not be widely used and it may not be worth the time and expense to get a coder to create a solution.
This is currently set at 20 minutes. If there was demand for this to be increased I could perhaps extend it to 30 minutes, but I wouldn't really feel comfortable making it any longer than that. The longer the post edit time limit is, the more opportunity there is for people to post misleading or baiting posts, or content that otherwise violates the ASF Terms of Use or Code of Conduct and then go back and edit it later, covering their tracks in the process.
My preference is that those posting review their posts immediately after submitting them and finalise them straight away. Any further clarification, or elaboration, can be added later by posting again.
Would it be a possibility to either limit the amount of political threads (as happened in the merged "all-purpose" property thread)? If that is not a possibility perhaps a separate "political" only sub-forum could be added? I personally feel that there are too many of these threads over-running the general forum. The graveyard bumping of inactive threads / posting of new threads often seems a bit superfluous and unnecessary.
You may say I don't have to click on these threads, but I often see them fill up my "latest posts" list. If there were less threads those who avoid them would hardly notice them and the actual investing stock threads would be easier to spot in this list.
I agree that there are too many individual political threads, especially threads relating to Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott. I have considered merging some of these threads in the past but have decided against it as it may disrupt the existing discussions. However, any further Julia Gillard or Tony Abbot threads will probably be merged into other existing threads from this point forward.
As for the idea of a "Politics" subforum in General Chat, I am open to this, but would need to see some significant support from the ASF community before it is implemented. Could those who support such an idea please post in this thread and let me know? Conversely, if there is opposition to this idea, I would also like to hear it.
I understand that some are irritated by not just the high level of political discussion on ASF, but by the number of apparently superfluous threads that are started by those who want to steer the discussion down a particular partisan path. I do agree that some thread titles are unnecessarily provocative and partisan in nature and designed to deliberately inflame or irritate others. I do agree this is a concern, especially given the history of political threads bubbling over into insults and personal attacks. However, I'm not sure what the answer is, other than to perhaps suggest that those creating deliberately provocative political thread titles re-consider this approach in the future.
Another possibility is to remove all General Chat posts from the "Latest Forum Posts" sidebar. Those with an eye for detail will have noticed that I have already implemented this on the ASF home page. However, again, I feel this is probably an over-reaction and would irritate more people than it would satisfy. If anyone has any feedback to offer regarding this idea, please feel free to post it in this thread.
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Personally i would like to just see 3 or 4 political threads: Liberal, Labor, Greens, Political News; basically all the existing discussions fit within that. Whenever there is a new piece of political news there is no need for a new thread to be created as it could just go under one of those 4 threads.
This means those that just want to talk politics can stay in those threads and those who want to talk stocks/economics have a much cleaner view.
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I really enjoy the political threads but I also think there are too many. There are some on going political issues that might warrant a thread of their own (Craig Thomson saga for example) but I think most things that come up could go in either in a Gillard/Government thread or an Abbott/Opposition thread. For me the most annoying thing is when one person posts the latest political news in one of the larger existing threads and someone else starts another thread just for that issue. We then have a situation where the same issue is being discussed in two places and people end up repeating their posts and it all gets very confusing. I personally wouldn't want to see a separate section for politcs as I think it gives it more weight than it warrants on a forum like this (IMHO of course ).
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