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de Bemused, 20 de desembre de 2013

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Bemused (Mostra el perfil) 20 de desembre de 2013 8.30.03

A previous thread by a person enquiring about Esperanto was hijacked.
I would not blame that person for now thinking that Esperantistoj are to be avoided at all costs.
Is there some way that an individual can render an entire thread invisible to themselves and vote for it to be deleted from the board?

Oijos (Mostra el perfil) 20 de desembre de 2013 8.43.44

No.

EDIT: To what thread are you referring to? I think that people are way too reluctant at creating new threads. If (read when) a new thing appears in a thread, please create a new thread.

Bemused (Mostra el perfil) 20 de desembre de 2013 9.31.00

I am referring to the thread entitled "Is the Esperanto community really accepting of people who are different?"

Ulsterano (Mostra el perfil) 20 de desembre de 2013 11.35.36

I'm just a newbie to this forum, and kept out of that thread, but I'm not a newbie to Esperanto. I have to say that I was concerned about the impression that the direction that that thread took must have left on the initial enquirer. If that had been me twenty-five years ago as a young, bright-eyed student, I'd have turned around pronto and never returned.

makis (Mostra el perfil) 20 de desembre de 2013 11.48.19

Ulsterano:If that had been me twenty-five years ago as a young, bright-eyed student, I'd have turned around pronto and never returned.
He did. He hasn't been active since 12-08. A mere three days after the thread was started and long before the real idiocy began.

What a shame!

kaŝperanto (Mostra el perfil) 20 de desembre de 2013 18.26.31

That vote up/down feature was sorely needed in that thread. It didn't even make it through the first page before being somewhat hijacked, and on the second page it had already begun its descent. I wish I had posted sooner; the last active date for the OP was the day before my on-topic post, and many other good posts came in the pages that followed.

It's hard to believe how many off-topic discussions ended up working their way in there. A lot of the problem was due to the posts by Rargos/senideano/voxclamantes, who was almost certainly the same person using multiple accounts. They posted using Rargos and voxclamantes in this thread, but senideano was present in a few other discussions. The ci vs vi discussion was a bit intrusive as well. I can see how finvenkistoj vs Raumistoj would be relevant to the title of the thread, but upon reading the original post this should clearly have been seen off-topic, since a prospective beginner will not even know about these or care about their relevance.

It seems like everyone brought their own grievances to that thread without any concern for the original poster's question.

I hope he/she continues the quest. Esperanto is about more than just these forums, after all.

Ulsterano (Mostra el perfil) 21 de desembre de 2013 14.35.09

kaŝperanto:That vote up/down feature was sorely needed in that thread.
Sounds like a good idea to me.

jismith1989 (Mostra el perfil) 21 de desembre de 2013 14.49.38

Ulsterano:
kaŝperanto:That vote up/down feature was sorely needed in that thread.
Sounds like a good idea to me.
I agree. It adds to the community aspect too. Obviously, it doesn't mean that the majority opinion is always right, but it's good to be aware of it. ridego.gif

Maybe a good feature would be a button where you could vote to have a post moved to a new thread too (well, to bring it to the attention of the moderators who could then move it if they wanted), then the community can help to organise the forums.

Nile (Mostra el perfil) 21 de desembre de 2013 15.49.27

People who are planning on posting something off-topic(without realizing its offtopicness) would upvote the off-topic posts they agree with. If one of the "vote" buttons is labeled "off-topic", then I think that some would see it and reconsider posting.

jismith1989 (Mostra el perfil) 21 de desembre de 2013 15.52.06

Nile:People who are planning on posting something off-topic(without realizing its offtopicness) would upvote the off-topic posts they agree with. If one of the "vote" buttons is labeled "off-topic", then I think that some would see it and reconsider posting.
Well, that's the problem with democracy, right? The idiots vote for idiots. ridego.gif No system's perfect.

Besides, I'd be careful of trying to herd people to stay absolutely on-topic all the time, so long as the discussion is fairly productive, because that's how proper conversations naturally work, isn't it, one topic leading to another based on what everyone's saying (and sometimes those links can be useful or interesting even though other people hadn't necessarily considered them)...

There's always a balance to be struck.

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