[MD] Betternes - 4 levels of!

[Horse]

Hi Folks

Just to put a few peoples minds at rest I thought I should make a few 
comments.

If you remember, over the last few weeks I have made a couple of requests.
The first was to refrain from bullshit politics (you're a commie, you're 
a fascist, blah blah blah....).
The second was a request to make a bit more effort to edit posts and 
include only those parts of previous posts that are relevant.

The first request has, by and large, been heeded and there has been less 
silly bickering over whose political position is the right one etc. Also 
discussion of local politics has died down. Good. And thank you to all 
who listened.

The second request was, for the most part ignored by those who were 
banging out one-liners on a 30K post and carried on doing so. For this 
reason I put a 10K cap on all posts and rejected any posts that failed 
to heed my request. Some posts were (and still are!) coming through at 
under 10K without the requested editing so I put those members doing so 
on moderation and made polite requests for them to do a better editing 
job. I shall be continuing to do this if the need arises.
Posts that are over 10K but edited properly are passed straight through 
with minimal delay.

I am making no comments on rejected posts about content - just editing. 
So please don't start screaming 'censorship' etc. as that isn't 
happening for the most part - only a couple have been rejected for 
content and were related to the first request.

I will be continuing to do the above until the majority of posts are 
properly edited, at which point I will increase the post size limit.

On a forum which is concerned with Quality I don't see that insisting on 
good editing and care when replying is too much to ask. If you haven't 
noticed then check the posts over the last week or so. They have (IMO) 
become more easily readable and coherent. We seem to be having 
conversations now and not just random comments thrown about in fits of 
pique etc.

Thanks to all those that have listened to my requests and acted 
appropriately.

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. :)

Horse

On 11/11/2010 18:11, 118 wrote:
> I do my best to not delete the necessary.  Many of my posts are being
> rejected for length.  The rejection states that the post is greater than
> 10Kb.  I am not sure how many characters that is.  In fact, this latest post
> we are discussing may have been one of them.  So, there was no evil intent
> there.  Are you experiencing this rejection at the hub?

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