<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Efrem:
I beg to differ. The posts in question generally link to a new article on the same topic as the thread or a closely related one. The alternative to adding to an existing thread would be starting a new one. That would fragment the posts on a topic. It would also bring exactly the same number of threads to the top of the list, except that they would be newly created threads rather than old ones bumped up.
(The topic of Doc's posting in general is a separate issue which has been discussed at length elsewhere. My view on that are no secret, but that's not what was brought up here. If someone wants to start yet another "let's complain about all of Doc's posts" thread, there is no need to disguise it.)</font>
Hmmm, closely related like the thread questioning the idea that men benefit from marriage at the expense of women is closely related to an article about how it's ok for men to cry?
Or closely related like the thread about the University Interscholastic League conducting steroid testing and the new article describing how men in Canada have poor body image?
Maybe you're referring to the thread about farting in cars and how closely related it was to the article about getting out of speeding tickets.
At any rate, that's not really the issue. The issue is the assualt on the boards in whatever form it takes. Posting 50 threads to which almost no one responds, totally disregarding the conversations that were going on beforehand is the issue. Being rude, behaving insensitively, and persisting in anti-social behavior for the sheer joy of being anti-social and watching people get upset is the issue.
The only thing I can think of that is disguised is the bizarre rules that the poster invents to try to continue the same disruptived behavior while being able to protest that he's following some kind of rule that is suposed to make it okay. Surely, he'll read this post and decide tomorrow to post 39 posts instead of 47 and protest that how can I be mad since he didn't post almost 50 threads!
Talk about your disguises.