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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SI Dave who wrote (183685)	2/25/2004 8:15:27 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572372

I'm a bit confused about a post you made on the moderated thread. Was this a moderated thread at one time? It was never a moderated thread. At one time, it was the only AMD thread. However, there was considerable feuding on the thread because of the business competition between INTC and AMD. The AMD posters felt the INTC posters treated them poorly. To mitigate that problem, they created the moderated AMD thread. Once the mod thread was established, there was only me and couple of other people left on this thread. At first, we continued to discuss AMD stuff but with only three people things got old quickly. During the nadir of the Nasdaq, even the mod thread began to have less and less posters. Over time, posters here began to discuss other things besides AMD. If someone popped up wanting to talk about AMD, one of us would link them to the mod thread. This animosity shown by the posters from the mod thread is a bit overwrought. The bottom line is that they walked away from this thread. To make like it was hijacked or stolen is just plain silly and the product of an overactive imagination. ted

To: SI Dave who wrote (183685)	2/25/2004 8:15:54 PM
From: Epinephrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572372

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