Michael Clark

I wouldn’t do what you do David. if I knew that people didn’t like it, I would take it down. It wouldn’t matter if I was legally entitled to do it. If I Was asked to a members posts down, I would. Its an absolutely pernicious act to do what you do when you know members don’t like it and you continue to do it. Lastly, it’s an abuse to the EF membership to continue doing it.

Your “Enterprise”, including your YouTube channel, and who knows what else, makes you money, I surmise.

It definitely is unethical to take a debate and move it into a non debate format, in the way that DVD does this. What makes it more unethical is that this forum is a not-for-profit space. DVP moves these truncated debates into a for-profit format.

I think the document posted in the following thread, along with the other documents posted therein, are some of the most important finds in the recent archives release. Im using this thread for a “bump-without-the-bump”

This is a “Table of Contents” for “A New Disarmament Strategy”. I would really like to see the whole document if it exists.. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2018/docid-32626309.pdf

This may not be the best use for this thread, but general interest items, maybe face book posts?.... These guys are building a huge boat in their yard in Massachusetts, with no prior experience:

Richard Price posted yesterday to the political debates forum:

Hi Ron, I don’t want to single any thread out. I like almost everybody on this forum. I just wanted to pose an idea that I though would be a good idea, and explain it. I thought it would help off topic and borderline threads. It was not intended to hurt them, but encourage them, and give our other areas of intest, closely or not so closely related to the JFKA, a change and a place to breath and grow.

@Ron Bulman Another example of how this can work. I can alert @David Andrews that the links that he was asking about are now working again. At the same time, anyone who may have come across these links when they weren’t working would know that they could try again, as long as they took a peek and scroll through this thread. And I don’t disrupt the JFKA forum, at all (if this were a sticky anyway).

I’ll bump this beacause this issue recently came-up with regard to @Denny Zartman im also posting this as a demonstration of how this can be useful in raising an old thread without bumping it to the main forum traffic area.

I shared this a few years ago...

Hi Ron, to get an idea of what I am talking about, please click on this thread to which I just posted. Now, just think of that thread sitting permanently under the Membership Behavior thread that sits, permanently, at the top of of all the active threads. If you clicked oh it, you would see that Bob Cingolani recently (June) shared some poetry. If that happened to interest you, you could click on it and go right to that thread, in that sub forum. Likewise, if Douglas posted something in the Watergate forum, and noted it in the sticky, you would know about it, and go there with one click. Now, my mug is all over that, because I am demonstrating it right now, but it wouldn’t have my mug there if the idea were adapted. It’s not about me. Sticky means permanent. Sticky threads have the little green icon, which represents a push-pin, a tack.

Charles Cingolani shared some of his poetry with the forum, back in June.

Ok. Peg me as the guy who wants to squash freedom of speech. But you may not have noticed that I have put some effort into growing the reach and breadth of this forum. You seem to have problem with a sticky, a single line in this forum, that would expand upon that effort. It’s not about me. It’s not about this thread. Have you ever seen a thread in this sub-forum that you though was off-topic? If so, that’s what it is about.

Thanks Jim. I could have been more accommodating with Ron, however. My suggestion doesn’t have to do with this single thread. It has do do with similar ones, but, it really has to do about the forum as a whole and the potential fo a better more informative forum. A simple sticky, in each forum could be clicked-on to see any posts that have been posted, and noted, anywhere in the many forums. Lets say, in a New Books Forum, someone posts a notice in the sticky. Eeryone, forum-wide, could find out about it without having-to, by chance, have a look in that forum. Douglas posts in the Watergate Forum frequently. If I, as a matter of routine, click on the sticky, I would know about it. If something is going on in the Trump Presidency forum, I would know about it. 9-11, Hitory, literature, ... whatever, ... one sticky, all with a link to the same, single thread, would be a simple, good way to see what’s going on, and maybe participate. Ron, please don’t focus on my opinion that this thread may be one of a number of threads that may be off-topic, or arguably off topic. These threads get relegated to some corner of the forum to die. I am suggesting a way to keep the alive. It would certainly do no harm.

Ron, I take it that you don’t like my idea. Noted.

I wanted to bring the above suggestion to the attention of: @James R Gordon, @Kathy Beckett, @Mark Knight, @Don Jeffries And @Pat Speer

It could also be used to bump a thread, for general interest or to augment another current debate, without actually bumping it to the home page when you haven’t added anything new.

Instead of having 4 threads, her, now, of questionable relevance, readers would know of, or could find them in the relevant forum. Those 4 threads would be supplanted by one single sticky thread.

All that would be seen here in the JFKA forum is a sticky that could be quickly browsed or ignored. And the latest post alert would be seen without doing anything.

Another example. If I had posted a new story to my Scary Stories thread, I would post here, saying so, and provide a link: You will notice that I created an alert, would-be sticky, in the Non-Acedemic Discussions thread:

Use this post to alert other sub forums to new content her in the Non-Academic Discussions Sub Forum:

New post in Non Academic discussions:

This was a good prank thread. Well done @Len Colby