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[Article] Threads

Victor · 2003-01-31 11:42:09

Would it be possible to have threads that are substantially based on a news article? Let us say, where someone find a relatively obscure, but valuable article and adds it to a post, but doesn't necessarily develop the thread very much (because the article does it for him). Such threads would be marked "[Article]" and if…

31-01-2003 11:42am

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Victor

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Would it be possible to have threads that are substantially based on a news article? Let us say, where someone find a relatively obscure, but valuable article and adds it to a post, but doesn't necessarily develop the thread very much (because the article does it for him). Such threads would be marked "[Article]" and if the mods think it is just spammy / pushing one side of an argument then it can be chucked. Many threads on Business / Economy / Finance work on this basis, but usually they are non-contentious.

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#2 31-01-2003 11:44am

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Yep agreed, this is now policy on this forum

I'll add it to the charter.

Gandalf.

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