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Post by Chromeo on Feb 5, 2014 14:52:16 GMT -5
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Post by Tails82 on Feb 19, 2014 0:44:30 GMT -5
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Post by Tails82 on Feb 20, 2014 11:22:35 GMT -5
Get a load of this one. As state exchanges crash and burn, House Republicans demand accountability
www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/17/Republicans-Call-for-Investigations-into-ObamaCare-s-Disastarous-State-Sites
House Republicans Call for Investigations into Obamacare's Disastrous State Sites
In Oregon, Maryland, and Massachusetts, all states with Democratic governors who supported Obamacare, the state-run portals are falling apart.
"The catastrophic breakdown of Cover Oregon is unacceptable, and taxpayers deserve accountability… With the March 31 deadline for open enrollment fast approaching, the state of Oregon will need to make a decision on the fate of Cover Oregon soon. The catastrophic breakdown of Cover Oregon is unacceptable, and taxpayers deserve accountability."
The total number of people enrolled in Obamacare from the website is zero. The only people enrolled filed paper applications.
In Maryland, Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), thinking of the White House in 2016, has to answer questions about the state-run website posed by Reps. Andy Harris (R-MD) and Jack Kingston (R-GA), who sent a letter to Health and Human Services Inspector General Daniel Levinson asking for an investigation. They wrote:
"By the end of the year, over $100 million federal dollars will have been spent on a project that should have cost much less and doesn’t work. As a result of the fact that Maryland appears willing to continue to waste tens of millions of more federal dollars, we ask that the investigation start immediately."
Harris and Kingston added that the state had ignored warnings from auditors that the site was seriously flawed:
"Despite all of these warning signs, Maryland chose to continue to waste and abuse federal taxpayer money by opening up what they knew was a flawed exchange to the pubic. Subsequent to the disastrous rollout, additional federal dollars continue to be spent attempting to fix what… might not even be fixable."
Harris and Kingston also asked the IG to see if federal money invested in Maryland’s site could be returned to the federal government and be recouped on the project.
Lastly, in Massachusetts, which has the worst enrollment percentage in the country, only 17% of its expected total for 2014 have enrolled according to Avalere. The Boston Globe reported that the state’s exchange director, Jean Yang, tearfully tried to explain to her board why the site had failed so miserably..."These people came here to lead and innovate, and instead they’re doing manual workarounds, and they are embarrassed to tell friends and family that they work for the Health Connector. We have to work harder. That means I need [to] tell the staff members they’re not doing a good enough job and I’m telling them that, even though they have been doing this tirelessly for months, and they’re exhausted."
On Friday, an official at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services revealed that the Centers have given Massachusetts a three-month waiver so the state could continue those enrolling in a new Connector plan.
Repeal and replace3kl, illegal activities This is, of course, the day before the last moderation purges from history. No dispute allowed. |
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Post by Tails82 on Feb 22, 2014 11:59:06 GMT -5
www.gamefaqs.com/boards/261-politics/68614980/775158150-Trolling Additional notes: seriously guys--- Hmm so it was over 48 hours and I can get in on this Oh, looks like I can dispute it now.
Discussion here
www.gamefaqs.com/boards/573081-hellhole/68622288
Forgive my unfriendly tone as I do not have a stellar relationship with moderators, aka those guys who take down messages and make political discussion more difficult. Is it really copyright infringement when you link to the article you're talking about? I would understand if the article was behind a paywall, but this was not. As pointed out in the above topic, I did not copy-paste the entire thing and there's a good chunk of it left out, which makes up 40 percent of the article.
The implications of an upheld moderation would produce more questions, namely what exact quota would someone be allowed to cite before being accused of plagiarism, even when they cite the source? A preset quota would raise problems with short articles or tweets - would users be allowed to post the entire thing?
Right now it's the politics board operating as the politics board does: someone marks your message if they disagree with you. I really don't think there's an issue here, other than the desire of the other side to keep embarrassing information off the board, using any argument they can throw at it. Illegal activities this is not.
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Post by Tails82 on Feb 23, 2014 9:19:27 GMT -5
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Post by Tails82 on Feb 25, 2014 11:01:21 GMT -5
Yes it is now plagiarism to credit someone. I learned a very different thing in school. A Mod/Admin replied on 2/22/2014 2:01:55 PM
Looks like the moderators in that topic already explained why you were moderated. Please refrain from committing plagiarism.
You said on 2/23/2014 10:57:12 AM
Plagiarism would be claiming the citation was my own work, which I didn't do, and I linked to the author. It is not a factor.
A Mod/Admin replied on 2/23/2014 9:27:19 PM
You can take a short excerpt in your post and link to the article, but copy/pasting this much of the article is not allowed. This has been explained to you multiple times in the past. Please discontinue this practice.
You said on 2/24/2014 12:14:44 PM
I would just like to inform you that if we were to follow this rationale, over 20 topics and messages currently active on the politics board alone are in violation of so-called copyright law, despite citing their sources, including two instances of "plagiarism" from one of your moderators.
www.gamefaqs.com/boards/261-politics/68639084/775493042
www.gamefaqs.com/boards/261-politics/68639084/775493057
Are you worried about a lawsuit over this? If so, I would start by 1) making the rationale clear and uniform, rather than selectively enforced or just plain made up after the fact, and 2) telling your moderators to stop violating the rules that they place upon us, especially if you believe that they are in violation of the law.
Or, we could just agree that this moderation is absurd.
A Mod/Admin replied on 2/24/2014 4:12:18 PM
We don't selectively do anything. If you're seeing bias, that would be in which posts get reported to us. Over 100,000 posts are made every day and there simply isn't enough manpower to read and review them all. If they aren't reported to the moderation staff, they aren't seen by us.Manpower shortage at gamefaqs! Where's the mod form? Sign me up. |
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Post by Tails82 on Mar 7, 2014 13:29:27 GMT -5
www.gamefaqs.com/boards/573081-hellhole/68734306Author: me Do I have your permission, me? Yes. Recently our good friend, a mod/admin (really an admin), wrote to us:
<i>We don't selectively do anything. If you're seeing bias, that would be in which posts get reported to us. Over 100,000 posts are made every day and there simply isn't enough manpower to read and review them all. If they aren't reported to the moderation staff, they aren't seen by us.</i>
I'm not denying that this is an interesting insight. If gamefaqs has a manpower shortage, I'd be willing to file an application should someone direct me to the proper form. If plagiarism roams rampant even when users cite sources, and if the site is really in danger of lawsuits from this widespread illegal activity, volunteers should be willing to come forward and ensure their beloved domain is fully compliant with copyright law, as defined by the staff.
I have in my possession a list of 35 accounts involved in the recently-invented cited plagiarism scare, and a continuing tally of messages that run 6 sentences and above. The count from this week's politics board alone just topped 100.
The current record, by the way, is from a gamefaqs moderator whose uncited quote ran so long it had to be placed in two messages. It has just archived, although I did bring it to the direct attention of an administrator and followed the sacred principle of MIASU, which lets us down so many times you might as well say "wait a while for us to do nothing, and maybe you'll forget about it."
So why do 102 messages, "illegal activities" as you call them - which could mean legal problems for the site if we were serious about this - slip past the watchful eyes of those in charge for the past week alone, while TaiIs82 is singled out? It's as if we have a hotline in place for certain people, and a group so determined not to overturn moderations that they will continue to stick with the story that quoting 60 percent of a brief article is the "entire" thing and that citing your source is "plagiarism" regardless of reality.
I am aware from other moderators that many of the messages in the queue are conservative in nature, reflecting the liberal makeup of the board and their standard policy of marking people they disagree with instead of debating. I am aware that some of them come to this board to complain about epic floods of "conservatrolls" which they argue can only be solved with a blanket ban on accounts under a certain level. I am aware that users tell others to mark messages they disagree with as trolling, because even when it isn't they believe that if they continue to bring it up, the moderators will be required to do something. I hope this is not official policy. I have noted many instances where these users believe the ignore list is not good enough, either because they've actually filled it up or because they want to stop other people from quoting people they've ignored, lest any outside news hit their eyes and challenge their ideology. Any pretext to mark and mod the messages of political opponents will be found among this crowd.
This humble user will not play along with the game, but will point out the double standards as they arise. Since they brought moderators into politics, we will bring politics to the moderators.
If the administrator in question had read my dispute approximately 90 days ago, when I outlined the pattern of disregard for the rules among certain moderators who frequent the politics board, perhaps he would better understand my arguments. He chose not to read that message, telling me that he stopped as soon as he saw a link. Were he to read this dispute he would find that, if the rules had been enforced uniformly, the moderator(s) in question would be found to have committed far more severe violations. The common theme I reiterated upon all of these cases amounted to five words: "You don't lift a finger."
You don't lift a finger if a moderator argues for the public flogging of people he disagrees with, multiple times.
You don't lift a finger if a moderator says the answer to an opposition political party is to imprison its members on treason charges, and put them up against the wall when the revolution comes.
You don't lift a finger if a moderator indicates a desire to bash skulls open and thinks people he dislikes should go kill themselves.
You don't lift a finger if a moderator enters topics he dislikes either to derail the conversation with messages about cheeseburgers and lasagna, or to threaten users and debate with himself over whether he can get away with moderating them.
You don't lift a finger if a moderator claims to reveal account histories or attacks someone on the basis of sexual orientation.
I say all this in confidence because when these were brought to attention, through normal means and through this board once that failed, nothing happened. Actually, the one thing that did happen was that I was moderated for "linking to potential violations," which is odd if they were not considered violations while they were active messages. I would hope that it is not true, as I've heard in previous years, that moderators are able to no-action their own messages.
I doubt that any moderator with such political opinions as the ones above can truly be an objective judge. As someone who has seen a message supposedly marked and moderated within seconds before anyone could read it and make a reasonable decision, and as one of the people who have been told by a moderator that they wish I could be banned and are watching for a reason to suspend, I do not believe lack of manpower explains everything. The system can be awfully quick when it wants to be.
So we come to today. Cited sourcing is defined as plagiarism and illegal activities, despite continued widespread practice on the politics board and five years of experience where this was never a problem. As stated above, I will not play by this game and flood the queue with dozens of messages I believe are not violations, but I will cite the double standard. I will point out when moderators do it, and I am not surprised that the same rules placed upon some are not applied to those who are part of the club. You cannot say that the messages have not come to your attention.
This is why I stated that moderations are selective. If the day comes when the system is truly unbiased, I will be the first to say it. Until then, years of observation and experience have taught me otherwise.
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Post by Chromeo on Mar 7, 2014 13:30:56 GMT -5
You are wasting your fucking time. They're the moderators, even if you're right they won't give a shit.
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Post by Tails82 on Mar 7, 2014 13:44:42 GMT -5
Oh don't be so defeatist.
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Post by Tails82 on Mar 8, 2014 11:19:15 GMT -5
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Post by Chromeo on Mar 8, 2014 14:42:37 GMT -5
I didn't see the topic so I can't comment, sorry.
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Post by Tails82 on Mar 9, 2014 8:33:19 GMT -5
It really is just a link and some quoted content, they call it copyright infringement. I came here with a simple point: the system is stacked in such a way that conversation is made virtually impossible.
In an update from yesterday, several days worth of debate has disappeared because the original topic was taken down under these rules.
www.gamefaqs.com/boards/261-/68734881
"The topic got modded for illegal activities. Terrible mods." -bsballa09
"That can't be true...That is absurd." -JIC X
"Please dispute it, thats so stupid" -TheRealJiraiya
"I love when 90+ post topics suddenly disappear without explanation after having stayed up for weeks, so that I can sit vainly blinking at my posted messages list wondering if I've gone senile or selectively blind." -JIC X
"For the first time ever, I am on Tails's side. The mods literally don't know what the word "entire" means. I'm not sure if I should be laughing or weeping." -TheRunner PD
"On Tail's side for this. Then again, a mod taking Tails seriously is a snowball's chance in hell." -GBALoser
I'll take that chance. I think we are going to hear more of this the more the rule is enforced.
The count is currently at 110 (well, 109 now).3kl disruptive posting 2 mods posting in sequence like that, you think they're talking amongst themselves? |
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Post by Tails82 on Mar 23, 2014 9:54:53 GMT -5
Party of criminals: Dems take bribes, get away with it thanks to skin color
blog.heritage.org/2014/03/21/democratic-legislators-take-bribes-oppose-voter-id-get-away/
This week, The Philadelphia Inquirer revealed that the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office caught at least four Philadelphia-area legislators taking multiple bribes ranging from a few hundred dollars to thousands in cash and Tiffany jewelry...these bribes were given to Philadelphia Democrats in exchange for votes or contracts, including opposition to Pennsylvania’s proposed voter ID law.
These findings are the result of over 400 hours of video and audio recordings obtained over the course of a three-year investigation...Despite this solid evidence obtained from a thorough investigation, current Attorney General Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, secretly dropped the case in 2013, allowing these elected officials to get away with corruption...Kane told the Inquirer that she was not going to prosecute the Democratic legislators who took the bribes because the investigation, she claimed, was “poorly conceived, badly managed, and tainted by racism… [and] had targeted African Americans."
Another case of selective prosecution from Holder-era notions of "justice."3kl offensive Yeah I know what Democrats do is offensive, can we talk about it?
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