Res Ipsa wrote:I do, with the caveat that someone assist Shades by posting for him links to the posts that should go in the new thread. I don’t think we should saddle him with sifting and sorting the posts.
Lemmie is the only logical choice for someone to prepare a list of links to submit to Shades.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Res Ipsa wrote:I do, with the caveat that someone assist Shades by posting for him links to the posts that should go in the new thread. I don’t think we should saddle him with sifting and sorting the posts.
Lemmie is the only logical choice for someone to prepare a list of links to submit to Shades.
She should certainly be given right of first refusal, but lots of folks here are perfectly capable. It’s not that difficult. It’s just a pain in the ass.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Res Ipsa wrote:She should certainly be given right of first refusal, but lots of folks here are perfectly capable. It’s not that difficult. It’s just a pain in the ass.
You're right, it's not that difficult. But no more a pain in the ass than having watched it dragged all over hell's half acre as it has been.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
I could start a new thread entitled Documentation from 'DCP's ongoing problem with plagiarism,' and request in the OP that posting there be reserved only for documentation. I could leave a link to the other thread, noting further discussion can be continued there.
I think copying over rather than moving over the documentation would accomplish the purpose without disrupting legitimate conversations here, of course with various posters retaining the right on the new thread to edit out stuff related to any other conversation if they want to.
If I recall correctly documentation has come from Tom, Everybody Wang Chung, myself, and Doc, and possibly a few others. I also don't mind copying over documentation of related plagiarism cases and posts of BYU and other's academic policies as that gives context.
How about I start the thread, and then I'll start by sending some links to Shades to be copied over.
I think splitting may be mechanically easier than copying over from Shades’s end. If his interface is similar to ones I’ve used, he can call up the thread with radio buttons to be checked. Those he checks are moved to the new thread.
ETA: If you send Shades the links, he can do what’s mechanically the easiest. Choosing the links is the real chore.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Res Ipsa wrote:I think splitting may be mechanically easier than copying over from Shades’s end. If his interface is similar to ones I’ve used, he can call up the thread with radio buttons to be checked. Those he checks are moved to the new thread.
I'd rather not, that would leave many legitimate discussions here in shambles.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Lemmie wrote:I could start a new thread entitled Documentation from 'DCP's ongoing problem with plagiarism,' and request in the OP that posting there be reserved only for documentation. I could leave a link to the other thread, noting further discussion can be continued there.
I think copying over rather than moving over the documentation would accomplish the purpose without disrupting legitimate conversations here, of course with various posters retaining the right on the new thread to edit out stuff related to any other conversation if they want to.
If I recall correctly documentation has come from Tom, Everybody Wang Chung, myself, and Doc, and possibly a few others. I also don't mind copying over documentation of related plagiarism cases and posts of BYU and other's academic policies as that gives context.
How about I start the thread, and then I'll start by sending some links to Shades to be copied over.
I think that's a perfect solution for any lurkers interested in the subject at hand.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.