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plebiscite ['plɛbýˌsaýt, -sýt] noun 1 a direct vote by the electorate of a state, region, etc., on some question of usually national importance, such as union with another state or acceptance of a government programme 2 any expression or determination of public opinion on some matter See also: referendum [ETYMOLOGY: 16th Century: from Old French plebiscite, from Latin plebiscitum decree of the people, from plebs the populace + scitum, from sciscere to decree, approve, from scire to know] plebiscitary [plə'býsýtərý] adjective
I would appreciate a "plebiscite" reflecting members' feelings about a request I have had from sjmax that I cease and desist from posting above the middle of the fora.
In doing so, I have carefully avoided using the popular fora. AwAD in Schools has only six hundred posts. Nobody ever posted in Weekly Themes until I started doing so
My aim has been to post as many words as I could find that might interest members, in hope of increasing participation.
I hope all members who share Max's objection will add their voice to his, so that I may know the pleasure of the Board.
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I would appreciate a "plebiscite" reflecting members' feelings about a request I have had from sjmax that I cease and desist from posting above the middle of the fora.
My only comment will be to correct the above misstatement. I made no such request. I simply asked why you had begun posting your wordlists "above the fold", and asked you to consider exercising restraint. I did not ask you to "cease and desist posting", either in those words, or by any other phrasing. The alacrity with which you took a private correspondence public, and willfully distorted it in the process, is enlightening. Salaam alaikum, goodbye.
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Dear sjmax: It appears that we do not use the same interpretation of "use restraint".
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Personally I feel that any forum with low traffic should be fair game for you, Dr Bill. A quick count shows that in the past year the AWAD in schools forum has had 10 active threads in the last year, not counting your recent posts, and the last one was in November. My only concern would be that your style of single posts for single words has the effect of pushing other threads to page two where they get ignored. Perhaps you could delete posts that get no response. Those that do get responses tend to generate intersesting discussions, but those that don't just seem to clutter the place up.
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Dear Faldage: thank you for your views.I wish I knew how to tell which words will be interesting, and which will not And words get spurlos versenkt in only a few days, anyway.
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I say, go ahead and post them. If they get no responses within a couple of days you can delete them by clicking on the edit button next to the reply button and choosing Delete this post instead of Change this post.
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Dear Faldage: Please forgive my being lazy about deleting. The old order changeth, ever giving way to the new. And just recently, there have been oldtimers coming back reading all the old posts. I'm amazed by their energy. How about as an alternative, having members PM me when they wish I would delete a post?
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I'm not sure deleting the post will make it go away. Won't it still show up with "Post deleted by.." in the subject header, with the same effect of pushing other threads down? Since you asked, Dr Bill, I prefer the conversations here to the word lists -- they make my eyes cross. But if you continue to refrain from swamping the more popular fora then I see absolutely no problem with it: there are some folks who enjoy reading them as much as you enjoy posting them and that's certainly in the spirit of a word-themed message board. Meanwhile, I agree that it is not courteous to make a private correspondence public without the consent of both parties. But you already knew that.
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I believe that any post that has not been responded to can be deleted without a trace. I'll give it a try.
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Yup. I just posted a new thread and deleted it It has probably incremented the post count to this forum but no more is it there.
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Dear AS: I did not quote any of max's words. How could I ask for a plebiscite, without stating the issue. And as I said, indicating that a member of Max's stature raised the question seem only fair to mention, to encourage any timid members from abstaining. I'm sorry my facetious use of "cease and desist" sounded like an attribution to Max. Everything I have done on the Board has been motivated by a desire to increase participation.
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