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I'm sorry, but as far as I can see, this thread is discussing a feature of a news channel. Therefore, it belongs in the NEWS forum.
Now, no further discussion of this issue, please. Continue with the original topic.
itsrobert
Founding member
Mark Boulton posted:
I agree with cwathen. How on earth can a discussion about DOGs and captions belong in a Newsroom forum just because its on a news channel? The thread is not commenting on the news itself, the way the news itself is presented, covered or announced, the news agenda of the channel, or comparing it to any other news channel.
It's NOTHING TO DO WITH NEWS! It's about channel graphics!
So the channel name contains the word "NEWS" in it -- so what? I think this proves that over-reliance on technology, computers, palmpilots, spell checking, text messaging, fuzzy web searching, etc. etc. has completely removed people's ability to work out the proper context and meaning of words; instead the only skill left by moderators it seems is to perform robot-like "If thread contains word X, move to forum Y", "If post contains word Z, ban user", etc. etc.
How about making these decisions based on relevance and topic, rather than applying such arbitrary rules based on simply how a search engine blindly searches for a string of characters?
It's NOTHING TO DO WITH NEWS! It's about channel graphics!
So the channel name contains the word "NEWS" in it -- so what? I think this proves that over-reliance on technology, computers, palmpilots, spell checking, text messaging, fuzzy web searching, etc. etc. has completely removed people's ability to work out the proper context and meaning of words; instead the only skill left by moderators it seems is to perform robot-like "If thread contains word X, move to forum Y", "If post contains word Z, ban user", etc. etc.
How about making these decisions based on relevance and topic, rather than applying such arbitrary rules based on simply how a search engine blindly searches for a string of characters?
I'm sorry, but as far as I can see, this thread is discussing a feature of a news channel. Therefore, it belongs in the NEWS forum.
Now, no further discussion of this issue, please. Continue with the original topic.
MB
Well, my last word on the subject is this - once someone uses the words, "Discussion over", "Subject Closed", "Shut up", etc. it always means one thing - they know they've lost the argument and cannot come up with a cogent defence for their point of view, knowing it has clearly been disproved or discredited. It's little wonder I rarely come to this forum these days. It's overrun with people who spend more time banging the keys on their keyboard than they spend letting the little grey cells work out the arguments being typed, before they type them.
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Now, no further discussion of this issue, please. Continue with the original topic.
Well, my last word on the subject is this - once someone uses the words, "Discussion over", "Subject Closed", "Shut up", etc. it always means one thing - they know they've lost the argument and cannot come up with a cogent defence for their point of view, knowing it has clearly been disproved or discredited. It's little wonder I rarely come to this forum these days. It's overrun with people who spend more time banging the keys on their keyboard than they spend letting the little grey cells work out the arguments being typed, before they type them.