Comments on: Question For RINF Users: Do You Want a Forum?

By: Jack H

Jack H — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:01:56 +0000

I would use a forum but this is my first comment.

I usually wont post comments because I cant tack my posts and anyone can use my name if they want to and post as me.

Discussions have a short life span because the articles are only on the front page for a little while. A forum would work differently.

By: whistler

whistler — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:38:30 +0000

Why do you want a forum?. Compared to people online, hardly anybody uses the medium provided now. People are obviously reading the articles, but hey when it comes to throwing in their two cents worth thats a bit of a no no.

By: Mick Meaney

Mick Meaney — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:21:07 +0000

Good ideas.

I reckon two ‘off topic’ sections would cover things, maybe a ‘fringe’ area for the more questionable side of research/theories/activism. Maybe members should be allowed to reply on these threads but they will not be highlighted on the front page or given any kind of promotion on the newswire.

And a ‘bin’ area that would contain offensive posts. Threads in here would be locked and eventually deleted.

By: 3 year old kid

3 year old kid — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:20:43 +0000

An idea,

lets have a forum for sure, don’t let the idiots spoil genuine readers fun & networking etc. And if any stuff has to be removed by MM - put in to a section which is deliberately designed for Spam, racism and crazy stuff etc. let people decide if they want to read it in that excluded section.

It would be a web first - censorship without total censorship so to speak.

That way it is obvious the content of that box is not acceptable to RINF or the vast majority of reasonable people. Then those like me who just love to give mindless morons a good old fashioned thrashing first thing in the morning can get stuck in.

By: w smith

w smith — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:15:34 +0000

Forum content would be indexed by google and provide more inbound links and traffic. The more people who know about alternative madia the better.

By: Mick Meaney

Mick Meaney — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:54:45 +0000

Thanks for your input guys.

Moderation is a concern to me because I currently remove a fair bit of spam, racism and crazy stuff from article comments.

Guidelines would be needed in order to keep the forum clean but there is a fine line between freedom of speech and censorship.

By: Simon King

Simon King — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:15:56 +0000

Oh please do not get me wrong i am not saying that this site is not educational , far from it . All i am saying is that having a healthy conversation with people who do not realy understand or who may mistake the alt-medias intentions could be just as effective , if not more so at getting the message across than just leaving comments . A topic or subject could reach its full potential rather than just a few soundbites and i feel that this would have a greater impact . I hope this helps? . Simon

By: Simon King

Simon King — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:51:22 +0000

A forum is a great idea , not only would it help build a better sense of a community identity online , but the swapping and sharing of common ideiology and more important EDUCATION of those that may be fully under the spell of false media lies has too be worthwhile for me! . Also i would think that some moderation would be a sensible option , as long as it just weeded out the dissruptive but not overly moderated too stifle freedom of speach . There is enough of that already and i would like to think that we would spot the genuinely passionate from the irritatingly futile statement! .

By: Perhaps...

Perhaps... — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:47:48 +0000

Perhaps we could draw up a list of topics not suitable for a forum as determined by rinf members?

My list would be something like this

No racism (inc zionism stuff)
No conspiracy (911, illuminati, etc)
No personal attacks
No spam links

By: Lois Hembrow

Lois Hembrow — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:34:46 +0000

Sounds an interesting idea, but it is true that it could be hijacked by some with the wrong agenda