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  1. ashbury
    No. The more we try to explain the Comment Policy, the more we are whipsawed by various people saying a) so this example of what not to do is all that is not allowed?, so this example of what to do must be followed every time?, and c) but what about this funny little case instead? John Bonnes responded to someone saying his 10th graders get away with this much and more. It made for a good response (he avoided using the term "sophomoric" which I would not have been able to resist), but don't try to generalize it beyond hope. He said such a post risks deletion. It's hard to think of any characteristic about a post "alone" that will cause (or avert) moderator action. No, VodkaDave, don't take that as a challenge.
  2. ashbury
    Since this has been done, more than once now in this thread, and explicitly in the Comment Policy post I previously linked to, I don't know what it is you are asking for. "Civility is still the rule, but a little more is tolerated." You want the explicit phrase "double standard" in the Policy?
  3. ashbury
    Iconic franchise moment to the franchise's fans, or to baseball fans in general? If you ask an average fan in Peoria or Walla Walla, "what moment do you think of when I say Minnesota Twins", the tag of Gant probably ranks awfully high. (And for that reason, because it gets some people's goats, it ranks pretty high for me as well.)
  4. ashbury
    And, for what it's worth, the status for game threads is documented in the Comments Policy thread. http://twinsdaily.com/showthread.php/8837-Twins-Daily-Comment-Policy-last-revision-September-2013?p=164889&viewfull=1#post164889 It's not a secret exception.
  5. ashbury
    Money just isn't a constraining factor for the Twins this season. That's a relative rarity in MLB, but there it is. If a transfer of talent is necessary to acquire Bonifacio, that's a different story, or if 40-man constraints are a factor (though we all have our favorites for a DFA), but a moderate amount of salary simply shouldn't stand in the way of this or any moves in 2014, and I'll be very disappointed if word leaks out that the salary is what stopped them.
  6. ashbury
    Panama City, for Spring Break?
  7. ashbury
    The linked article? Works for me.
  8. ashbury
    "Halt. I'm from the Internet."
  9. ashbury
    A seventeen-year-old is tough to gauge, but right now, what's his ceiling? Throw out the name of a HoFer caliber pitcher to make me happy.
  10. ashbury
    There's a 'B' missing there. "Blen"?
  11. ashbury
    Got a parallel explanation for cutting, along the lines you gave for what heroin does? That's one I've never understood either. / threadjack! threadjack! threadjack!
  12. ashbury
    This is part of the reason the moderators try to foster respectful discussion between posters. Oftentimes an overly personal attack amounts to an attempt to short-circuit this process by urging the reading audience (in effect) "ignore everything this poster says", for instance by bringing up old and irrelevant topics. If you keep the rebuttal focused on the topic at hand, rather than making it be about the other person, you're on a lot more solid ground. People will then figure out for themselves to whom to pay attention.
  13. ashbury
    For me, the love (or optimism) for Escobar comes from him having completed just his age-24 season and the hope he still can progress a bit more at the plate. Bring that OPS up to .700, which his stint at AAA suggests is possible, and he's a useful player. Florimon, being two years older and starting from a lower base of demonstrated production, does not have even this same modest ceiling.
  14. ashbury
    I can't do better than point to the way John Bonnes said it a while back, contained in a longer essay that is found in the Comment Policy thread:
  15. ashbury
    A moderation action from "a few years ago" may or may not have involved the current crew. The moderators have discussed the topic of editing recently, and the consensus is that it is rarely superior to just deleting the post, for reasons such as you allude to. Deletion of a post isn't the end of the world anyway, and the poster can always try again with the same message restated.
  16. ashbury
    Would Dave be sarcastic? Noooo. Good one.
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  18. ashbury
    Great game thread, everybody. See you next year.
  19. ashbury
    So, it's coming up on 6 pm Pacific time; about time for the Super Bowl to start. Who do you like in the big game? I see it as a close one, but I give a slight edge to the Broncos.
  20. ashbury
    Holland was adamant that playing hockey, which he does at times during the offseason, had nothing to do with the injury. He said he played Monday night, but was fine Tuesday before the accident happened.
  21. ashbury
    Agreed about the league effect(s). Weighing against that is that sometimes it takes a while for a lean guy like him to have his power come in, and he's able to show the power now. The intangible of my conversation with his dad suggests to me his son will be a level headed guy who understands the ups and especially the downs of the pro game and will cope - that doesn't make a guy a prospect but it's a good thing when there is anything to work with. I'll leave it at that, he seems like a legitimate prospect. I'm having fun watching his progress.
  22. ashbury
    Uh, thank you, I think.
  23. ashbury
    The following reflects just the views of one of the mods. Many posters, including some of the moderators, successfully include sarcasm among their rhetorical devices, without running close to the boundary. I just checked the TD Comment Policy and, as it happens, sarcasm is not even mentioned by name. But, as you note, it is a sharp-edged tool. That means it requires some care. Some people have the talent to use it well, and some just don't seem to, despite repeated practice. And when it falls flat (always a subjective matter), it will come across as simply being combative or a setting up of a straw-man. Rather than try to give ever-more-detailed guidelines on how others use sarcasm well, I suggest going back to the simpler statements found in the Comment Policy: Respect for others is expected in everything we write, and personal attacks are not allowed. and TD encourages humor, but please consider how someone who doesn’t know you might interpret your post. If you can use sarcasm while heeding this, to try to dismiss an idea while not dismissing an individual, go for it. Watch this video of comedian Keith Alberstadt: [video=youtube;I-SFA5Xs0s8] Decide for yourself which of his jokes would translate well to the written medium even when the live performance aspects were missing, and which ones he would perhaps "call an audible on" if posting here.
  24. ashbury
    Maybe so. But this thread is in a part of the TD site, "Questions about Twins Daily", where it's an appropriate topic. As in other parts of the site, if a subject isn't to one's liking, no one compels anyone to read it, and certainly there is no compulsion to contribute. Indeed, posting (in effect) that the subject of the thread itself is not worth discussing, is covered in the TD Comments Policy.
  25. ashbury
    Moderator's note: and with this, it's about time to ask yet again that the tangents be left aside. This thread was about Engelb Vielma (who I thought at first to be somebody's humorous anagram but apparently not). It is not necessary for multiple people to inject a sequence of escalating critiques, culminating in one of the entire organization, into every thread. The TD Comment Policy is clear about this form of trolling; the moderators try to be lenient, and all that results is further escalation by one individual after another. Start a new thread, if any of you feel so moved, on your pet topic(s). Free and open discussion is good; the "same old same old", not so much. And I must add: this doesn't apply to every post in the thread. Some of the comments, as they pertained to the player, were quite interesting.
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