Spot the arseholes ...... (71)

I definitely wouldn't call any question poser "naive", perhaps curious would be a better word, but as many wise people have said in the past, the only silly questions are those that aren't asked.

"Best Answer" in the context of this system would relate to a post that answers the question asked by the OP, not necessarily the most accurate answer as you have interpreted. Perhaps that's down to terminologies and maybe we should describe it as a "Mark as Relevant" system to show that the OP considers the post as a relevant reply to their original post.

There are many systems out there that are implemented successfully, and especially on boards that don't limit the number of posts per thread, these systems can be very useful. I wouldn't care to trawl through 1000+ replies to a question in the hope that there's a relevant response in amongst the unnecessary squabbling and bullshit that's evident on a lot of public boards, none more so than here.

DQY

The problem here is that the AUP doesn't deal with this situation effectively. Its been going on for really quite some time now, and several members have got to the point where they are borderline breaking the AUP themselves, out of frustration over

- the volume of pointless inane posts

- the fact that incorrect/hearsay information is being presented as fact

and starting point this out more forcefully. In any social situation, IC being no different, there are generally unwritten conventions about behaviour, and people - as a group - tend to react when they are broken, not always constructively. In amongst the humorous, exasperated, and sarcastic responses, there have been restrained sensible ones - thinking of @AshUK and @Admin in particular - but these have been ignored, all the person in question needed to do was ingest those constructive comments, but they have either chosen not to, are sufficiently delusional that they don't accept them, or don't have the capacity to understand whats being said to them.

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^^^^^This.

376, xxx.

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Edited 16 Jan 11, 10:38 PM by Numbers

That second option means the bad advice stands unchallenged on the thread for readers other than the OP to read

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Admin

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How does the person memo'ing the OP know who else is reading the thread who also needs to be sent that memo?.

Is there a role for the OP to post a summary of the sensible replies memo'ed, and what happens when people disagree with that summary?

Cheers, Badg1.

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Then they have the right to free protest. After all we have a democratic system.If they can not disagree with that summary,then you have dictatorship.Not what IC is about.

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IC isn't a democracy. I've never been able to vote on IC, beyond choosing to join, and choosing, if I wish, to leave.

There is a (hopefully benevolent) dictatorship : Admin.

Admin also allow users / group-profiles to be the "mini-dictators" of their own weblogs, allowing editing (censoring if you wish) of posts within their weblog.

None of that makes IC a democracy, and I don't think it pretends to be one.

How can you justify calling it a democratic system, when it exists at the whim of Admin? : (not withstanding that I'm appreciative of what the Admin team have created, and acknowledge the vast amount of work they put it, and am not calling for a revolution to a democracy - the system works very well as it is) - but it still isn't a democracy.

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