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whizkidd
Joined: May 14, 2004
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From: India
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Over the past few days, I have noticed that some people (myself included)are genuinely interested in compiling news articles and posting them on the forum.
But i have noticed that some of these articles never receive a reply and the whole forum is kinda spammed.
IMHO, It wuld be helpful if we had a seperate forum/section for general news articles. Mobile phone related news can be posted on the relevant areas, but floodidng the Mobile Phone free zone with news articles doesn't seem to be a great idea to me. What do you folks think?
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goldenface
Joined: Dec 17, 2003
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From: Liverpool City Centre
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Well I noticed boba has been doing it and today I thought I would help him today by posting a few but if no-one finds them interesting then.....
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masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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From: Sydney, London
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@whizkidd, I agree 100% and I'd like it to stop right now please (I was just about to write something similar here)
the posting of general items of limited interest is useless. We can all go to BBC or annanova and read this stuff.
There is also copyright issues as we don't have the right to simply cut and paste articles like that
News postings should be limited to items that are in some way related to phones, gadgetry, useful knowledge etc and not these tidbits of sensationalism
I'll be removing stuff I don't think we need but I'd prefer if more consideration was given before it was posted in the first place
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govigov
Joined: Jul 30, 2004
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From: Back home - Cochin
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why not one big thread where we can post all the general news 
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k4m!k4ze
Joined: Oct 02, 2004
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From: CBE
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I agree with whiz
@golden - it does not harm but then again there are sooo many threads all of a sudden, u dont have time to go thru all of them and it just looks like the forum's being cluttered
@gov - that way a lot of stuff might be missed in between, and people cant skip news they dont want to know about
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methylated_spirit
Joined: Jul 07, 2004
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From: Bonnie Scotland
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Yeah, certain people are throwing articles across the forum with gusto, and its messing it up
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goldenface
Joined: Dec 17, 2003
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From: Liverpool City Centre
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OK I understand
Relevant news thats gadget related.
If I see any I'll post. |
Jim
Joined: Jan 20, 2002
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From: Belgium
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I posted this on the locked "New news editor" thread
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| Now, I see alot of forums working with a "back page news" section on the forum, it means that anybody can post a news and "news mods" are making the decission if it's worth the frontpage or not. Even if it's not really worth frontpage it stays on that particular forum so anybody can read it anyway.
That way anybody can participate in the news section of the site whitout having special rights. |
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but no one seemed to care except carkitter ...
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solidsingh
Joined: Jan 15, 2004
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From: india
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i think everyone is missing axxxrs complete randomness
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PeterKay
Joined: Jul 08, 2003
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100% correct, he is still here in spirit 
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Jim
Joined: Jan 20, 2002
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He is gone, get over it!
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BobaFett
Joined: Jan 06, 2004
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From: Kamino (wish it would be Lund)
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@masseur hard to decide what is interesting for who, what is useful or useless, especially without any experiences on news area. I miss the news here, more the director of those...
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whizkidd
Joined: May 14, 2004
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I actually never thought about the copyright part while posting articles.
But we did provide links to the origignal page.. 
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BobaFett
Joined: Jan 06, 2004
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From: Kamino (wish it would be Lund)
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Indeed, copyrights are very serious things, but i studied axxxr' way before i started to post news and he made it on the same way, copy-insert. Of course its hard to avoid to break the law, thatswhy is a well trained and good informed - in news and copyright area - the best solution for esato's interest and members emtertaining.
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kk.226
Joined: Nov 04, 2004
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From: London
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Instead of a New section of the forum, just have one general news thread.
If you think there's something people need to read about make a post, have a link to the site so no to breach copyright laws, and a small paragraph describing what's in the link and what it's about.
One news thread with lots of posts it better than lots of news threads with no posts
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Posted: 2006-06-07 14:53
