Posted on Jan 14, 2016
The post about the 25 Soldiers arrested from Ft. Riley is gone. Why does RP insist on removing popular posts?
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This is becoming increasingly annoying. I make a post on a topic one day. Overnight, people will reply or give a thumbs up. I come in the next day to see what the comments are, and the whole thread is gone. It appears to be connected to posts that have a news article linked to the topic. Is there some new legal issue with linking in news articles to discussion topics? How is this any different than linking web pages in Facebook? Why is this new interface need to separate links from questions? WTF RP?
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CW4 (Join to see)
SSG Carlos Madden is the name that appears on the emails stating that a question was removed. Maybe he'll get on and shed some light.
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I don't know if this will help or not but here are some links
Guidelines: http://support.rallypoint.com/customer/portal/articles/2256396
Abuse Guidelines:
http://support.rallypoint.com/customer/portal/articles/2256344
About the Updates Feed and Guidelines http://support.rallypoint.com/customer/portal/articles/ [login to see] 971:
SSG Carlos Madden
Guidelines: http://support.rallypoint.com/customer/portal/articles/2256396
Abuse Guidelines:
http://support.rallypoint.com/customer/portal/articles/2256344
About the Updates Feed and Guidelines http://support.rallypoint.com/customer/portal/articles/ [login to see] 971:
SSG Carlos Madden
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SSG Carlos Madden
CPT (Join to see) - Thank for sharing this information. The links you provided help answer both of the main questions here. Admins do not keep Questions open or closed based on their popularity, but rather if it was created in the right place (Abuse of Updates: "If something is posted incorrectly as a Question and it should be posted within Links or Updates, it will be closed.") The post you're referencing was closed because it was a shared news link for which we created have a specific button. When in doubt about if something should be posted as is a Link or Question, if you have a link you should use the the orange "Share Link" button (About the Updates Feed & Guidelines: "Do not share a link or make a statement and convert it to a general question like ‘Have you seen?’ ‘Have you heard?’ ‘Thoughts?’ ‘Opinions?’ ‘What do you think?’ ‘Did you know?’ ‘Are you aware of…?’ etc.").
Both SN Greg Wright and CPT M have reached out to me offline to ask questions about this so I'm more than happy to explain it further if you'd like. We want you to be able to post! thehttp://support.rallypoint.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2256396-about-the-updates-feed-guidelines?b_id=4766
Both SN Greg Wright and CPT M have reached out to me offline to ask questions about this so I'm more than happy to explain it further if you'd like. We want you to be able to post! thehttp://support.rallypoint.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2256396-about-the-updates-feed-guidelines?b_id=4766
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Usually it is due to duplication.
It is irritating to me as well, Chief. Sometimes it seems pretty arbritrary.
It is irritating to me as well, Chief. Sometimes it seems pretty arbritrary.
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If a thread is started as a question, and an admin decides it should have been a share a link, can't the admin move it to that category instead of deleting it and losing all the discussion? Likewise with duplicate topics. Does this site have a merge thread function so that you merge the discussion reolies into the main thread before deleting the second thread?
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SSG Carlos Madden
LTC (Join to see) that would be the ideal situation but the software guys tell me its not the easy to move something between Questions and Links. And yes, there is a merge function! We use it whenever we can. If there is any way we can keep a question live - by changing a title, merging, etc. - we'll do it.
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