A clarification on "Political Advertising"

nesf

Mostly in response to this thread because there are accusations of bias being thrown around but also a message to the party faithful of all stripes so we'll have fewer repeat incidents of this.


It is not ok to cut and paste party material into a thread without discussion or analysis. This site is not here so you can freely advertise your party. Starting a thread and then just reeling off the party line will just get it locked and your post edited. The purpose of this forum is debate not to act as a platform for recycling pamphlet material. Plus, we've election season is starting again with Local elections in June. You may think I'm being cynical but today I got a handy list of my rights from a local FG councillor, so open season has begun kiddies. Like Christmas, it starts earlier every year...



If you want to generate discussion about your party's new proposal or whatever link to it on their site*, quote the "headlines" of it and offer some analysis and critique of it showing why you agree with it.

If you're into politics and you're a member of a party this really isn't a very onerous task and if you can't analyse and critique your own party's material and show why you agree with it, why on earth are you a member? Not only does this provide a starting point for discussion but it also allows people to engage you and not your party's stance on issues which again is important in the context of a forum for debate.

Some may think this harsh or overly strict but it's applied fairly to all parties and all interest groups and there is no bias here towards one party or another in these rules.

If you've any questions or comments post below.




*If you think about it for a second this is actually a far better idea than simply cutting and pasting it onto here because once they're on your party's site they might actually look around and read more material...