If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

[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…

Options

31-01-2003 12:42pm

#1

Victor

Registered Users Posts: 78,404 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2000

Posts: 68767

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.

0

Comments

Options
#2 31-01-2003 12:44pm
gandalf

Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 1998

Posts: 24273

Yep agreed, this is now policy on this forum

I'll add it to the charter.

Gandalf.

0