Back in the days when mirc Chat rooms were the rage, people used to cut and paste whole documents into the chatroom.  Most members were more interested in real discussion than watching several pages of text fly by on the screen.

It was just called flooding.  I just adapted the term to describe gratuitous redundant unending links.

♣ a seal

PT,

A modicum of decorum, please. You and CA might not like one another. However, his post here was not specifically directed at you, and his opinion is a valid one. I, too, am often displeased with lengthy posts incorporating innumerable links, especially the ones bashing candidates.

That doesn't mean I want them to stop. However, I see nothing wrong with CA or anyone else voicing such displeasure, especially as the subject of this thread was to solicit opinions about NB.

Let's try to keep the discussions here upbeat and lively without the seemingly requisite crotch-grabbing and genital-waving we all find so disagreeable at the Netroots sites. I'd like to think we're ALL above that. JMHO. ns

making reference to the Shrub Report??? 'tis on par with the drudgereport - IMHO (thanks Roger)

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

I'm as guilty as anyone of long posts. But I think that if you limit the posts to make them brief, you'll simply get a bunch of drive-by insults. They'll just be a bunch of snarky quips (or failed attempts at it). It'll also be an invitation to group think, and that doesn't much interest me.

This is just one man's opinion, but if you're going to make public comments, you owe it to readers to explain yourself, and be willing to defend what you say. You shouldn't just toss off comments. I enjoy the threads where people develop ideas. I don't enjoy "insult tennis," where squabbling goes back and forth without any real content.

On the other hand, free speech is inherently messy. The fun thing about a forum is that you can ignore things you don't like. As they say, take what you need, and leave the rest.

I agree that would be handy. 

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party,the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

mb -- I have to part company slightly on this one.

PT keeps posting the SAME bleep links! If Roger did the same I'd be goosing him too. Unless he liked it.

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

Shrub Report comes out how many times a day?

And in which thread would you find the Shrub report?

♣ a seal

Apparently PopTech likes to spread his link lists on the table in front of you like a bushel of frozen fish. It is a an attempt to appeal to authority (a classic fallacy) rather than an engagement in debate. In effect each list is a statement. That statement is "see your opinion is in the minority, therefore your opinion must be wrong so you should return to the flock and follow the sheep even if you disagree with them." Without his organized name dropping, and voluminous link lists, he would not have anything to add to the conversation. So let him have his lists. He finds comfort in them and he hopes you will too.

CA,

Does 8mbps  give you clearer resolution when you go to full screen?  My system gives lousy full screen.

Did you upgrade your video board, the video driver, or both?

Inquiring minds want to know.