Post by Jonjel on Nov 7, 2014 10:54:21 GMT
Nov 7, 2014 10:27:22 GMT jean said:
It's not the quoting, jonjel, so much as the added commentary that's inappropriate for this board.Nobody here needs to know what you think of someone who only ever posts somewhere else.
You've suggested I think that comments like yours and cleefy's are much the same as dissing the Royal Family, the difference is (as I've pointed out already) that there's plenty of widely-disseminated information of all kinds concerning the sort of people we call public figures, and a rounded picture can be built up by the reader.
(I think you know this really.)
I don't think I have linked the Royal family to this. I agree, public figures (well the ones that have the right of reply) very often deserve a damned sight more than they get.
Some time back on the BBC boards there was some particular nut case who tried to convince everyone that 9/11 was a CIA plot, and inside job. A lot of people 'took him on' including me, obviously within the rather strict constraints of the BBC boards. I have absolutely no idea who he was but I don't think that holding his particular viewpoint up to ridicule, anywhere, would have been any more invasive that recounting a conversation overheard in a bus. But by your rules me calling him a nut case is wrong.
I think that for example Marchesa gets a lot of flack for her views on climate change, and I am pretty sure that some comments made about her are for her views expressed on other boards. And there is a lot of sniping at her because various posters feel aggrieved that they can't register on the Science Board.
I think if people post rather off the wall comments then they should be prepared for those comments to be quoted wherever. As far as I am concerned it is all part of the rough and tumble of the blogosphere.