I'm all for freedom of choice and speech and what have you, but please for sanity sake, is there nothing you can do about Salisbury's posting on the soapbox. He may have whatever opinions he chooses, that is not the issue, but he keeps bringing loooooong dead threads back to life and the only one thats posting in them is him....and those telling him to leave it be. I don't care if his next thread is about islamic terrorist in cohoots with chili preparing to assinate bush. i just want to stop the threads he keeps returning to life that only he updates and no one else cares about..which if im not mistaken is part of the rules, to first ask if this is something other readers might care to read or is it just cannon fodder and a product of the mirical of copy and paste.

4/25/2003 1:20:09 AM

How do you propose he ask if people want to revive a thread?

Would you prefer he just make new threads on the topic? If you go to Entertainment, it's one subject, one thread. That's it. Maybe salisburyboy is just trying to keep things orderly.

I don't really like a majority of the man's posts, but everyone's entitled to their opinion. So suck it up and deal.

4/25/2003 2:06:23 AM

He does not ask if people want to revive a thread, the threads are dead they have rolled over 5 times in their grave and he still keeps going in there once a week, finding some website copying some text and just pasteing it in there. There is nothing useful hes adding, the conversation in those threads tended to end on the very first page. And I told you, its not a matter of opinion. But its senseless that they show up once a week when no one, not even he is trying to revive it, hes only diging it up, because he puts no new life into his long dead threads. But its not even his opinion any more, he just pastes what he can find from a website, and adds nothing to it.

[Edited on April 25, 2003 at 8:43 AM. Reason : df]

4/25/2003 8:43:02 AM

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"Maybe salisburyboy is just trying to keep things orderly."

If he was trying to do that, he wouldn't have created the same thread 3 times in the same day in the same forum (Soap Box). I believe he has a right to post . . . every forum needs an evil Ned Flanders. However, I really wouldn't mind seeing thread posting ability provocked.

4/25/2003 10:32:27 AM

^err . . . revoked.

4/25/2003 4:50:31 PM

To my knowledge, it is not against the rules to bring back up a thread. That would be an
absurd rule. How would you define the rule?....that you can't bttt a thread that has not
been posted in for 1 day?...2 days?....etc.

As previously mentioned, I post in the same thread because creating a new thread on the
same topic IS against the rules.

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"If he was trying to do that, he wouldn't have created the same thread 3 times in the same day in the same forum (Soap Box). "

I am not doing that anymore....and one of the three you speak of has already been locked.
I intend to not start threads on the same topic.


[Edited on April 25, 2003 at 5:03 PM. Reason : .]

4/25/2003 5:00:38 PM

Devil's Advocate, but...

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"How do you propose he ask if people want to revive a thread?"

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"He does not ask if people want to revive a thread"

In looking through the Soap Box, the longest different between one post and his bump was approximately 2 weeks, which a lot of times in the Soap Box is only on the second page. Would you prefer he daily put "bttt" in the thread so as not to let it die?

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"And I told you, its not a matter of opinion. But its senseless that they show up once a week when no one, not even he is trying to revive it, hes only diging it up, because he puts no new life into his long dead threads. But its not even his opinion any more, he just pastes what he can find from a website, and adds nothing to it."

I'm sorry, do you read threads in the Soap Box? Because a good half of it is links to things that other people have written. He has the right to attempt discussion on whatever topic he chooses. In your opinion it is senseless. Everyone in there flames him so often, that should he ever actually post something that defines his beliefs (which just happens to be posted on a site) you'd probably just accuse him of trying to dig up long dead threads. IF you don't want to read what he posts, don't. You can see his name on the right side and middle of a page if he starts a topic. Just jump from gray bar to gray bar, or white to white. Bam, simple.

As far as opinions go, I don't agree with a majority of what salisburyboy posts, but I do respect that he is commited to his beliefs and how he chooses to follow them.

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"However, I really wouldn't mind seeing thread posting ability [revoked]."

Sorry man, that borders heavily on censorship and ironically pretty much everyone in the Soap Box is against that.

4/26/2003 12:15:23 AM

if Jake or Joe haven't responded to a thread in here w/i a day or so, you can generally assume they won't. ergo, carry it to the soapbox, fellas

4/26/2003 2:08:47 AM