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What are your views of this forum?
It is completely fine the way it is, no changes please
31%
 31%  [ 5 ]
It has many good posters, but there are problems with spamming, propaganda, stereotyping, flaming
31%
 31%  [ 5 ]
What took the mods so long to do anything?
6%
 6%  [ 1 ]
There aren't enough female contributions on the forum
6%
 6%  [ 1 ]
OPTIONS 2 and 3
25%
 25%  [ 4 ]
Total Votes : 16

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Enrico Palazzo
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:11 am    Post subject: Views on the status quo on the forum... Reply with quote

How would you evaluate the CE forum, though this OP does thing it's decent in many ways with good posters, one would like some feedback via a poll.

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nicholas_chiasson



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I went with number 4 but the grammar is wrong.
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Enrico Palazzo
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nicholas_chiasson wrote:
I went with number 4 but the grammar is wrong.


Thanks, I wrote that in the middle of my phone teaching. By the way, you forgot the comma before your conjunction. Shocked I appreciate the heads up.
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee



Joined: 25 May 2003

PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:48 am    Post subject: Re: Views on the status quo on the forum... Reply with quote

Enrico Palazzo wrote:
How would you evaluate the CE forum, though this OP does thing it's decent in many ways with good posters, one would like some feedback via a poll.


I appreciate your good intentions. However there are certain posts that deserve certain responses. Case and point the slander against Obama saying that he did drugs and did whatever .It would be unfair to fault anyone who flamed the author of that thread. Sometimes flaming is warranted.
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Milwaukiedave



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joo,

You have a point (and I can't believe I'm agreeing with you), in that case reasonably it should have been locked. The problem is that person would have been screaming about censorship.

A general comment:

As I said (maybe in a little bit of a harsh tone and I admit it) in the other thread, sometimes the poster brings it on themselves in terms of the flak they receive. A little self-restraint on their part would go a long way.

I'll be totally honest and tell everyone I voted for #2. The thing is (and I'll admit it as well) except in rare occurrences with a small number of people, this forum isn't too bad. It really only takes one or two people spamming though to throw things out of whack. These people know the rules, they just think they don't apply to them.
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Adventurer



Joined: 28 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree with Milwaukee that the forum is not bad, it seems pretty good to me. I like it. It's a pretty good forum. Sometimes, people seem to kind of get out of hand. I mean it looks better to me sometimes than the General Forum. I think from what Gopher put on the poll, we have many people with more than B.A. with some teaching certificates, a master's or PHD. That's not too bad. Of course, we can't have high school drop outs on the forum:) LOL

Of course, it doesn't mean if people have credentials, they can't act like numbskulls. Some of the titles and threads can be nuts, I think, and we can get ticked and respond. It's pretty normal, I think. I voted for 2 and 3. Things could have been done earlier to make things better, but maybe the Mods were stretched thin, I am not sure, and you had it's a pretty good forum. I am not sure how Enrico can really handle the problems that arise.
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cbclark4



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is an excellent example of a spin poll.
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Poktanju
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What's the difference between a spin poll and user feedback poll?

On that note, what's the difference between a paranoia poll and a mod conspiracy poll?
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mole



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:46 am    Post subject: Re: Views on the status quo on the forum... Reply with quote

Enrico Palazzo wrote:
How would you evaluate the CE forum, though this OP does thing it's decent in many ways with good posters, one would like some feedback via a poll.


What.?!

I vote no.

And stick to phone teaching. A comma wasn't necessary.
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Poktanju
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:17 am    Post subject: Re: Views on the status quo on the forum... Reply with quote

mole wrote:
Enrico Palazzo wrote:
How would you evaluate the CE forum, though this OP does thing it's decent in many ways with good posters, one would like some feedback via a poll.


What.?!

I vote no.

And stick to phone teaching. A comma wasn't necessary.


Brillant pander for cyber-props from anonymous peers! Shocked

Lord knows how the girls love internet macho:


Thanks for the vote, nevertheless. Smile

As for the comments from the non-performance artists, like MilwaukieDave, Joo, and Adventurer, I respect your candor and agree with your vantage points. From the results of our polls, there seems to be less forum-wide issues that are needing forum-wide solutions. But moreso there seems to be a need to isolate and moderate some specific users who are habitual offenders of the issues that bother you, from time to time.

We'll continue to solicit for feedback as to learn what issues you indicate are more troublesome, so we can tweak our approach better.
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Adventurer



Joined: 28 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:23 am    Post subject: Re: Views on the status quo on the forum... Reply with quote

mole wrote:
Enrico Palazzo wrote:
How would you evaluate the CE forum, though this OP does thing it's decent in many ways with good posters, one would like some feedback via a poll.


What.?!

I vote no.

And stick to phone teaching. A comma wasn't necessary.


I am not a grammarian, but looking at what was written above I think the poster could put something between two commas. That does happen.
You have appositives. However, I am not the resident grammarian on this board. Is there one over here? I, personally, would say you would
add the commas, because the words between the commas are not necessary for the sentence to make sense, but a question mark should have been placed at the end of the sentence. Anyway, why did you a period and then a question mark and an exclamation mark? It's also poor form to start a sentence with a conjunction. I have a grammatical question. Could you place a comma after that conjunction since you are staring a sentence with a conjunction? The conjunction but is more and more used to take the place of however. You would place a comma after that conjunction. Now, wouldn't you do the same with the conjunction
and? Can anyone weigh on the grammar in this case....

This is interesting..
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Nowhere Man



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:51 am    Post subject: ... Reply with quote

I thing it should be one question followed by a statement that features a comma.

That's what I thing.


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ontheway



Joined: 24 Aug 2005
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Enrico Palazzo wrote:
"How would you evaluate the CE forum, though this OP does thing it's decent in many ways with good posters, one would like some feedback via a poll."


Punctuation edit:

How would you evaluate the CE forum? Though this OP does think it's decent in many ways, with good posters, one would like some feedback via a poll.



I got it when I read the original post and make enough typos of my own, so I generally choose not to comment on spelling and grammar.

All we need here now is a group of grammar nazis ...
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Adventurer



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ontheway wrote:
Enrico Palazzo wrote:
How would you evaluate the CE forum, though this OP does thing it's decent in many ways with good posters, one would like some feedback via a poll.



How would you evaluate the CE forum? Though this OP does think it's decent in many ways, with good posters, one would like some feedback via a poll.



Yes, that definitely makes sense. It makes sense to put the question after the word forum. Obviously, a sentence that starts with though is going to have a comma after the phrase associated is finished, and since "with good posters" is not necessary for the sentence to make sense it makes two place those words between two commas.
Commas are put in between parenthetical expressions and appositives.
The problem wasn't the comma, but not placing the question mark where it should have been placed. As far as Mole's sentence, he had a period placed before a question mark for some reason. If memory serves me, the words "with good posters" would be an appositive. Isn't that right? Parentheticals deal with words like however and of course in the middle of sentences...
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I vote 2...too much spamming, and the flaming could be reduced a little as well.
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