on how ?to use the links&info forum

I have a question.If I am interested in responding to the link and or information in the links and information forum but the link is not found in (the)thread I want to discuss topically, then I must republish the link?What is the purpose of having a linkedlist longer than one post long in the links forum??This message has been edited by Brad McFall, 06-17-2005 10:51 PM

is simply to place links of interest before the members. It's not a place to discuss the links. If you find a link that you'd like to discuss please propose a new topic.

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so then my use of the links forum@
http://EvC Forum: Francis Collins on ID -->EvC Forum: Francis Collins on ID
as well as my most recent post there were inappropriate?

No and yes. In the former you were basically providing additional links. In the later you were opening a discussion.

Earlier today I, for lack of a better term, reprimanded Brad for posting commentary in the "Amicus briefs filed in Selman v Cobb County School District" "Links and Information" topic. His message was the previous there.I think I agree with AdminJar's above comment. That said, the "L&I" forum is problematic. Why have information of any sort be posted, if it isn't to be debated? Well, "L&I" is a dumping ground for bare or near bare links. Perhaps the guideline there is (even if not specificly stated) like that of the "Post of the Month" forum topics.Message 1 at the POTM topics include: A little debate tends to sometimes leak into "L&I" topics, and sometimes a bare link is appropriate at a debate forum topic. But the intent is to limit such things., like most everything, has "gray area" situations.Adminnemooseus

That is fair enough.I guess it is time for me to start offering up new topics if I want to speak out loud.It is only because I had read Ned's prepublished comments that I started to think of replying and then I guess I overtyped Nic's statement that it (in the reprimanded linkedposts) was just an announcement. Perhaps I should read some of the guidelines better. It is because in some cases I am somewhat *against* some of the links that I dont want to republish them just comment on them, but if I must I will just alter my posting threshold then. The curious thing is that what I wrote was not intended as a "debate" but only as an observation. I guess my view on e/c is so unusual that the difficulty in apprehending me leads to a debate about comprehension in this particular instance.Jar, I agree with a no and yes response as well.