Might as well Christen the New Boards

A Hearty welcome to the regulars when they finally get here.

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Goodbye

Submitted by Xandorf on November 24, 2005 - 12:05pm.

Since the boards have changed I've noticed that there are more restrictions as to what we can post. So I will no longer be posting on this forum. I enjoyed all the information and debate that we have had on the vbulletin Forums. But alas those days are gone. I especially wish to thank Sheldon, wheelslip, clandestine, Darkhorse, and cris123. See you guys on the flip-side.

Sorry to see you leave

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on November 24, 2005 - 3:49pm.

I'm not sure what Xandorf means by saying there are more restrictions. Our policies haven't changed. Someone noticed a few days ago that there were a few postings here which consisted of the entire text of copyrighted stories from other publications. For legal reasons, we need to avoid infringing on copyrights owned by other people, so I asked our webmaster (Patricia Barden) to post a notice to that effect. It's still fine to post excerpts with links to the full article, and we aren't trying to impose any other rules on people.

The vBulletin forums also had several different sections that we've eliminated: one forum for each of the books written by John and myself, plus a separate forum for Spin of the Day, in addition to "general chat." We decided to collapse those all down into a single forum because it appears that the general chat forum was getting 95% of the traffic anyway, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of purpose to segregating out the remaining 5%.

The only other change is that the new forum is better integrated with the rest of this website. For example, there is a sidebar block now on the right-hand side of every page of this website which highlights active forum topics. Also, the registration procedure needed to post to the forum is the same registration procedure that lets you post comments after PR Watch stories, Spin of the Day entries or blog posts.

In short, we're trying to make things more inviting to forum participants, not less so. I hope Xandorf will reconsider and try to stick around for awhile.