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How Long Should Threads Last?
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A day, a week?
The reason i ask, is i posted something on tuesday, it got 6 replies, and now its gone. So can i assume there has to be a minimum of interest, eg 20 or so replies for it to be around for several days?
The reason i ask, is i posted something on tuesday, it got 6 replies, and now its gone. So can i assume there has to be a minimum of interest, eg 20 or so replies for it to be around for several days?
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>>> ABC told him it was discredited, lol.
Yes, that made me smile too. He then went on to rubbish the BBC and all 'fact checking' websites.
The simple truth is that there are three major broadcasters whose output is trusted by fellow journalists (and by many others) across the world as being of the highest integrity, where the greatest care is taken to ensure that all of the information that they present to the world is checked and double-checked. (Of course that doesn't mean that they're perfect. Mistakes can happen and unintentional bias can sometimes creep in but, by and large, they're damned good sources to get your news from, even if you then look elsewhere to see if there are alternative takes on a story). Those three broadcasters are (in purely alphabetical order, because no one is better than any other) Al Jazeera, the BBC and CNN.
There's then a 'second division' of broadcasters, who're generally held in high esteem, including the Australian Broadcasting commission (the same 'ABC' that Piggynose clearly has no faith in), NHK (Japan) and France Inter.
I prefer to get my facts from such broadcasters, together with a cross-section of fact-checking sites (such as Full Fact and Snopes) and, most importantly, from primary sources (such as peer-reviewed articles on the sites of internatonally-respected journals and equally well-respected universities and research institutions).
Others, it seems, are happy to believe any old tosh promoted on Youtube (even from videos which Youtube's moderators are already trying to delete all copies of)!
Yes, that made me smile too. He then went on to rubbish the BBC and all 'fact checking' websites.
The simple truth is that there are three major broadcasters whose output is trusted by fellow journalists (and by many others) across the world as being of the highest integrity, where the greatest care is taken to ensure that all of the information that they present to the world is checked and double-checked. (Of course that doesn't mean that they're perfect. Mistakes can happen and unintentional bias can sometimes creep in but, by and large, they're damned good sources to get your news from, even if you then look elsewhere to see if there are alternative takes on a story). Those three broadcasters are (in purely alphabetical order, because no one is better than any other) Al Jazeera, the BBC and CNN.
There's then a 'second division' of broadcasters, who're generally held in high esteem, including the Australian Broadcasting commission (the same 'ABC' that Piggynose clearly has no faith in), NHK (Japan) and France Inter.
I prefer to get my facts from such broadcasters, together with a cross-section of fact-checking sites (such as Full Fact and Snopes) and, most importantly, from primary sources (such as peer-reviewed articles on the sites of internatonally-respected journals and equally well-respected universities and research institutions).
Others, it seems, are happy to believe any old tosh promoted on Youtube (even from videos which Youtube's moderators are already trying to delete all copies of)!
>>> Are there many other abers who are also mods?
There are, I believe, currently around 30 ABers who're moderators. The Ed's official advice is that moderators should keep their identities secret in order to prevent them being 'flamed' by irrate members. However several have chosen to ignore that advice, including myself and people like Waterboatman (whose services are particularly useful in removing the mountains of spam that appear daily in the early mornings on AB, when the Asian-based spammers are going flat out).
There are, I believe, currently around 30 ABers who're moderators. The Ed's official advice is that moderators should keep their identities secret in order to prevent them being 'flamed' by irrate members. However several have chosen to ignore that advice, including myself and people like Waterboatman (whose services are particularly useful in removing the mountains of spam that appear daily in the early mornings on AB, when the Asian-based spammers are going flat out).
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>>> I have seen posts left on AB where the poster has been banned
Yup! The technology clearly isn't perfect! All contributions from banned members are meant to disappear but I acknowledge that they occasionally don't. (You'd have to ask AB's techies why; I haven't got a clue!)
Oh, I see that a couple of posts have been zapped above! There's obviously another moderator around because it wasn't me that did it! (I never even read them!).
Yup! The technology clearly isn't perfect! All contributions from banned members are meant to disappear but I acknowledge that they occasionally don't. (You'd have to ask AB's techies why; I haven't got a clue!)
Oh, I see that a couple of posts have been zapped above! There's obviously another moderator around because it wasn't me that did it! (I never even read them!).
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