I am soliciting opinions on a couple of questions today. Overnight a couple of
posts were reported for being personal attacks, only the attacks were on the
developer mentioned in the article, rather than on another reader. The goal of
our loose forum rules is to allow as much freedom of expression as possible, so
we usually allow more leeway in crabbing about public figures than each other,
since the later tends to promote flame wars, while the former doesn't. On the
other hand, venom is not required to make most points, so I'm leaning towards
removing posts that cross the line of civility, and want to see how you all feel
about the tradeoffs this represents between personal expression and good
manners. Also, I included a couple of screenshot thumbnails on the front page
yesterday and asked if this was okay (normally you'd have to click a link to
view the them here), and there were a couple of negative comments, but not much
outcry, which has me leaning towards including them more often, so now is the
time to say so if you hate that idea. Thanks in advance for whatever feedback
you're willing to provide.
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