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Lately a few people have commented on the 'links and cut and paste' getting out of proportion
I think it is a really useful facility if you want to prove a point or guide people to reading more than you can write especially links as you can choose to read or not, but somtimes there are pages and pages of cut and paste We are all busy people who watch the news on TV, listen to the radio, read papers and catch up with the latest on line Do we need more? What do you think? Is it in danger of making LOL boring ?
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Trigger
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Can I just offer an explanation about the “posting of links” to articles - but I must stress that this is my own view and not necessarily the view of this site.
If anyone is posting, say, a quote from a newspaper article, the matter of copyright comes up. Reading our Forum Rules it states: “In the case of publishing material that is under copyright of someone other than yourself, you are required to post a source, and if possible, a URL to where it can be found online.”
Whilst I can understand that seeing a “Link” to an article - which is already quoted from - might seem unecessary, it is done for a reason, so that the original article can be easily found, should anyone wish to check it.
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Trigger I dont think its the links that are annoying people they are as you say necessary for copyright and also give you a choice to ignore them if you want to. My thoughts were much more about the cut and paste which again can be useful here and there, but when you get pages and pages of it without taking a breath to even allow comments this can be a real put off, well to me anyway. Who knows everyone may prove me wrong and like seeing it- lets see
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Trigger
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I posted my comment about "Links" - as it has been raised twice very recently. I have simply offered it to try and clarify the situation concerning their usage.
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funkychick
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I think you are right to make that point Trigger and thank you I m not trying to be mischeivous here but have heard it from a few different directionslately and I found it shocking today to hear that a much respected poster was feeling they would leave and partly due to these changes in LOL and that made me think it was well worth discussing
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Karen
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My vote was yes, there's too much of of it.
I've been at this site for quite a long time. Probably on and off for ten years. Seen lots of changes and people that come and go. Many are sorely missed. The site has changed, but then everything does, but for me personally, it's not the same fun place it used to be to visit. I find myself skipping over the majority of the stuff and just look at a couple of the topics nowadays.
One feature that I wish would come back is the chat room. It was a lot of fun and a good laugh, but more than that, I think it brought a lot of members together from all over the place and we formed some good friendships. It made us feel like we all knew each other and many of us actually did get to meet up. I know that I looked forward to chatting to someone pretty much any day I got onto the computer.
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Karen - re: chat room. I think this isn't possbile now - could be to do with this being an "old" program. I'll see if I can find out anything for you.
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snowdrop
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never used it really apart from the odd one,never needed to use cut and paste not quite got hang of it..i was unaware members did not like it
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Karen
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Karen - re: chat room. I think this isn't possbile now - could be to do with this being an "old" program. I'll see if I can find out anything for you.
Thanks, Trigger!
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freelance
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I gave my views on this the other day, but will the perpetrators take any notice of a poll? Of course they won't.
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