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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: SI Dave who wrote (183685)2/25/2004 8:15:54 PM
From: Epinephrine  Read Replies (1) of 1572446
 
SI Admin (Dave),

I salute your desire to "get SI's house back in order" but the changes that you are making are wrong. The way I see it SI provides two main functions:

1) creating a forum for current discussion by creating a system for new posts
2) safely archiving those discussions so that they remain an unbiased, non-revisionist, historical treasure of information.

In my opinion the archival service is as important as the posting system, in fact without the archival service the whole idea of a discussion forum loses quite a bit of value. We might as well be on a chat server or IRC or something.

The political discussion on the Advanced Micro Devices thread is off topic. It's always been off topic, and it would be off topic even if no one ever made another post about AMD. Just because a thread is inactive doesn't mean it should become a scumpond of off topic posts, and if it does become one that certainly doesn't mean that it should be hijacked and have it's topic officially changed. The way to get SI "back in order" is to preserve the long term integrity of the information of it's boards and to be faithful to the many posters who post on a given subject assuming that their posts will be preserved. The solution is not to reward off topic posters by handing threads over to them as soon as their level of activity reaches a large enough volume. Think about it, you're actually encouraging the pirating of inactive threads with that policy. Just make enough off topic posts and you can take over a thread. It's ludicrous!

Please rethink your policy.

Epinephrine
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