KDN

Is this not how he acts when you try to speak to him in person?

Actually its not. Pooter and I are on a different level in person I suppose.

Again, you're a patronizing asshole. And it's not my problem. I guess, if I address the issue uncouthly, and you don't address the issue at all but rather prefer to publicly fetishize your superiority, neither of us is really doing his job. All I meant to do so far was to insult the Ketchikan Daily News while simultaneously advancing my arguments. I find it less pretentious and more fun that way. Maybe when you refer to name-calling you mean what are called 'adjectives'? This is not an involved argument. There are no issues of honor at stake here. You have put forth nothing which can be intellectually digested to the exclusion of obscenity, nothing which elevates the argument or yourself. Stop complaining about me and being a dick.
Note to self: Clamroyale is complaining about me and being a dick.
HOW LITERARY OF ME!

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Pooter, would you like to explain your position?

It also was skewed to one side and had more detail in it then the police report. Oh also it was pretty easy to get who the victim was.

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TCN, thanks for the input.

As for the transparancy of the victim's identity there's no real journalistic regulation barring the publishing of rape victim's names, though it is a highly debated issue its up to the publication's discretion.

I can't speak for Pooter. MY problem was (and is) that the article went into lurid detail about the incident abridging the rights of the victim and, possibly, biasing any jury in this town against a fair trial. Guilty or innocent, he still deserves a fair trial and this article was an example of, IMO, tabloid journalism.

Yeah, it's still the BETA so all this data will be removed by the end of it (except your account info of course). I figured it'd pretty much be the same way KU kind of was but that's fine while I'm still building it.. But the more people we get, the more serious posters will hopefully overpower the flamers (ha).

I'm giving the power to speak to everyone. I'm sure we'll have a lot of both heavy conservative and liberal members of each community blagging their minds away to the community. It's those people I'm assuming will fuel and popularize the site.

One good example is Zig Ziegler (I'll say names). The stuff he gets posted on SitNews enrages me sometimes. It's conservative ignorance at its finest, and yet I can't respond openly and freely (at least not for a couple days until SitNews verifies if it's good enough to be posted.)

My point there was, I'm assuming if the site raises to the popularity I'm hoping for, it will attract heavy attention from people like Zig, the people who follow (his crap), AND FINALLY: the people that are against it and want to be able to say something about it.

I'm not sure if I've even made my point across, too much to say about on the subject..

Nutshell = Serious liberal/conservative/anyone posters + serious commenters to them = visually overpower the crap comments/anger.

The thumbs up/down will hopefully help us filter out flaming and hide it from everyone's view. The system may have to be re-thought in the future, but it should be fine for now.

The community moderates the comments of flamers/trolls/spammers (and hopefully not people they just disagree with, although it happens). The staff gets rid of the rule breaking content and the stuff that needs to be removed to, technically speaking, save our ass.

Right?

Exactly. And I feel your pain on Ziegler. He stood up at a school board meeting and suggested uniforms. During the break I told him, "Uniforms sounds great...when do they get the armbands?" He stomped off. Some people just have no sense of humor! ;)

Many people have this unfortunate tendency to strongly dislike rapists. Who knew?

Nah Sam my point was he hasn't been convicted yet so to imply he was like I did was wrong.