Blogging Pet Peeve...

Sep 13, 2007 at 5:23 PM
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As host of a couple of topic groups here at Vox and participants in many others, I have noticed that people post on their blog and then immediately post it in every group they have joined. Even if the topic doesn't belong in the group, they post it anyway -- defeating the purpose of groups for specific themes/issues. I guess people just want to get their post out to the masses.

So FYI -- for the groups I host -- I have started to delete off-topic posts. I would hate to start blocking people from groups.

Don't be a group troll.

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I completely agree. I wish you hosted all the groups I belong to or that the hosters had your same vigilance.

Any chance that you know of a way to get group posts to show up on your 'neighborhood' page?

So now I'm looking at my posts in this group and wondering if I'm one of the subjects of your ire.

I would defend my last few posts here by saying that I think they are related to science, as science is the most rational way of knowing about the world that we live in. I consider discussions of skepticism and reason, which includes a critical analysis of supernatural claims of all sorts, to be very pertinent to any group that centers around science.

If it is your intent to restrict the group to discussions strictly defined by the title and short blurb about it, then I will certainly reevaluate what it is that I think qualifies one of my posts to appear here, and do so with my apologies for having contributed in any way to the derailment of your original vision.

If I'm not one of the perpetrators, then I likewise apologize for thinking everything has something to do with me.

8^-)

I agree, off topic posts are bad form.

I haven't deleted any of your posts. They have a place in the groups you posted. :)

I don't know. :(

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Just two words:
"Amen!" and "Thank you!" [1]

John

[1] "That's four words!" "I know - I'm a heavy tipper!" (geek points for the reference!)

Just be thankful that colonic irrigation doesn't fit into the topic of any of your groups. Every health group I'm a part of is being spammed with obviously commercial posts by some insane bowel obsessed Voxer at the moment. I'm guessing because the posts are technically on topic the group owners aren't deleting them, but bloody hell they get annoying!

I definitely think that off-topic posts should be deleted. I also think that repetitive, deliberately obnoxious or obviously commercial posts should be too, but maybe I'm just in a cranky mood!