Thread: A Word On Posting

It's really great to see so many passionate, active, and involved people here using their freedoms as Americans to protest the situation with respect to illegal immigration.

I would like to offer a word of caution however on simply grabbing any and all information you find on the internet and posting it here. The internet is an informational free-for-all through which anyone can publish almost anything. We want to be relatively assured that what we circulate is accurate. In many instances, it is perfectly fine to post information and let the reader decide how they feel about it. In other instances, it can be damaging to the cause to get bogged down in information that ultimately proves to be not accurate, an urban legend, rumors, etc. If you can, try to verify anything stated as fact: For instance, there was a rumor circulating around that stated alleged facts about retail sales on May 1st. A few phone calls and emails to the authorities that track that kind of information proved that it was not true. We want to maintain credibility and not get labeled gossip-mongers and crazies.

Where authors are alleging to have some information of an "inside nature" about a government, official, program. It is always wise to do a little background research on the author and their standing in their respective fields or areas of research and adding a link or two to that information with the post. While I'm on the topic of links: when a pertinent article is of great length, it is always helpful to readers here if you can provide the link with a brief summary and not the entire article itself. It saves space on the threads and prevents readers from getting discouraged by all the scrolling so that they don't read all posts in a thread prior to replying.

I would also highly recommend the News section for those who haven't been there yet. You will find a large, informative collection of articles...many of which keep getting reposted in General Discussion. In this same vein, it would really help all of us to get to the most timely and relevant information if folks would do searches by subject matter and read what is already on the board on that subject to avoid a lot of repeat postings. This would be most beneficial to our new recruits but good for all of us as well.

Lastly, we need to try to keep on topic. This Immigration Reform is a complex issue touching many aspects of our government, business, finance, and social organizations. The players and puzzle pieces are numerous and wading through it all becomes burdensome when we get bogged down in the irrelevant.

This is a momentous time in our history. We have the opportunity to make a difference. We do not have the luxury of time and need to concentrate all our efforts on what we need to know and do in order to have our voices be heard and the will of the people implemented.

A very relevant observation!

It's great advice to newcomers and old fogies alike.

Blatant BUMP!

and I raise you a BUMP

Bump again....

Very good point. I try to stay with local news sources and avoid the random internet posters. If I can verify the source then it will go if I think it is relevant.

What is BUMP?

I was pm'd after my first post here, and imformed that the way posting is handled on this site, is to put the link as well as the entire article, as a courtesy for those with dial-up. Obviously, it would take them too long to go from link to link.

As far as:

This Immigration Reform is a complex issue touching many aspects of our government, business, finance, and social organizations.

I totally agree! And that's why some info is interesting to some and not to others. Folks who are further along in their education on the various issues, might not need certain info, where newbies will.

PAT.....BUMP or BTTT means moving the post back up top.

{I just learned this too

LINK......YES, courtesy and also a time saver. Also goes for including the article with the link.

Some of us have so many windows up we can't put up another one. Others with dial up have an even harder time.

Thanks, 2ndamendsis,

So therefore refers to the first post. Great, NOW it makes sense!

Pat, as I understand a 'bump' , it is just someone responding to post - just to keep it current - as posts scroll off the board if no one posts for a while.

So, sometimes people click reply on a thread, and just post 'bump' or 'btt' (bump to the top) and hit post, just to keep it 'bumped' to the most visible part of the board.

At least that is how I understand it. Clear as mud???

I agree with a lot of the info in that thread - but I am not sure about posting links. Personally, I don't click on many links. I have picked up so many nasty bugs. I realize that probably most links someone would post here would be a relatively 'clean' one - but one never knows. I just seldom do.

Also, I do have dial-up and a verrrrrrry slow dial up - I can't take the time to wait for it to load.

For me and I may be the only one - but I find myself reading only the most current posts. That may not be the best way - it is just me. So if something got posted yesterday and I didn't see it, I am usually glad that someone posts it again.

I am new and if I am doing things incorrectly - I will certainly refrain - but those are just my observations.

LINKS are necessary. Without links we can't verify.

You can always cut and paste any links in a new browser window if you're uncomfortable with clicking on it.

As for the "if it's not most recent, you don't read it...", it would help if people would try to read back just a little (assuming you have time)....and if the items that are getting reposted over and over because they are crucial would be posted in one of the News sections of the Forum Index, then there would be no need to keep reposting them.

Originally Posted by nntrixie

I agree with a lot of the info in that thread - but I am not sure about posting links. Personally, I don't click on many links. I have picked up so many nasty bugs. I realize that probably most links someone would post here would be a relatively 'clean' one - but one never knows. I just seldom do.