ASSRA Forum - What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic

ASSRA Forum › General › General Discussion › What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic

(Moderator Group: Moderator)

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Poll

Question: What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic area ?


* This poll has now closed *
I am an ASSRA member. 61 (22.8%) I am NOT an ASSRA member. 25 (9.4%) I am satisfied with the Off-topic 56 (21.0%) I am DIS-satisfied with the Off-t 17 (6.4%) BAN discussion of POLITICS. 36 (13.5%) Limit ONLY to firearms. 16 (6.0%) Humor section should be allowed. 43 (16.1%) Other issues need to be addressed. 13 (4.9%) Total votes: 267 « Last Modified by: Cat_Whisperer on: Dec 24^th, 2013 at 7:14pm »

Pages: 1 2 3 [4]

Send Topic

What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic (Read 17212 times)

Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3874 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic Reply #45 - Dec 29^th, 2013 at 8:55am
	Of the 86, 13 indicated that OTHER ISSUES need to be addressed.

	Cat Whisperer (trk) Chief of Smoke Pulaski Coehorn Works and Skunk Works Drafted May 1970, Retired Maj. U.S.Army assra #9885
	WWW IP Logged

Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3874 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic Reply #46 - Dec 29^th, 2013 at 9:00am
	You may manipulate the numbers any way you wish to (I presented them in one manner, others are possible). You may interpret them ANY way you wish. *What I will add in general terms is merely the fact that (from PM's) the "OTHER issues" that need to be addressed are serious enough to some folks to have terminated two decades of membership.*

	Cat Whisperer (trk) Chief of Smoke Pulaski Coehorn Works and Skunk Works Drafted May 1970, Retired Maj. U.S.Army assra #9885
	WWW IP Logged

Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3874 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic Reply #47 - Dec 29^th, 2013 at 9:03am
	westerner wrote on Dec 29^th, 2013 at 12:24am: Don't trust CW, that's what. Joe. I sure don't trust myself, no reason for anyone else to.

	Cat Whisperer (trk) Chief of Smoke Pulaski Coehorn Works and Skunk Works Drafted May 1970, Retired Maj. U.S.Army assra #9885
	WWW IP Logged

Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3874 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic Reply #48 - Dec 29^th, 2013 at 9:07am
	shovel80 wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 11:39pm: I guess I'm instructions challenged, I'm a member, but I only checked one box and then when too late noticed that it said to check as many as wanted. Terry This is a learning experience. I got into making the survey without knowing how it worked either. Typed in all the questions and found, one at a time, that I was limited to 50 characters. Not much flexibility in the program. Probably should be limited to ONE topic with little else.

	Cat Whisperer (trk) Chief of Smoke Pulaski Coehorn Works and Skunk Works Drafted May 1970, Retired Maj. U.S.Army assra #9885
	WWW IP Logged

Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3874 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic Reply #49 - Dec 29^th, 2013 at 9:09am
	BP wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 11:57pm: DWS wrote Quote: Somebody please e'splain to this mathmagically challenged shooter how we can have 267 responses, 61 owned up to being ASSRA members and 25 said they were not members that seems to equal 86. Just who in the heck are the other 2/3 of the poll responders. hell this isn't a presidential election poll is it? DWS, Might be like a presidential election poll. Some might have thought I was joking, but I found out with this poll that you actually could vote once as a lurker before signing in, and then once more after signing in. There's some glitch somewhere that let it happen. For what it's worth, my lesson learned is... Don't trust electronic voting or electronic polling! Good to know! Which way did you skew the data?

	Cat Whisperer (trk) Chief of Smoke Pulaski Coehorn Works and Skunk Works Drafted May 1970, Retired Maj. U.S.Army assra #9885
	WWW IP Logged

QuestionableMaynard8130 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4144 Location: Benton Harbor MI Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic Reply #50 - Dec 29^th, 2013 at 10:13am
	Over-all I think the survey is informative, And I very much appreciate CW's willingness to risk the bull by grabbing it by the horns. I think that it shows us that the Off-topic does provide a service in the majority of pollee's opinion. Can it use fine tuning--yes, but who doesn't? It'd be interesting to learn what the "other concerns" might be. But we also have to recognize that the poll responders, even at that max 267 number, represent an unscientifically sampled very small proportion of ASSRA and site membership.

	sacred cows make the best burger
	IP Logged

BP Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 8039 Location: Westside Joined: Aug 27^th, 2006	Re: What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic Reply #51 - Dec 29^th, 2013 at 4:47pm
	Cat_Whisperer wrote Quote: Good to know! Which way did you skew the data? Cat, Both of my votes were identical, and had the following three items selected: I am an ASSRA member. Humor section should be allowed. Other issues need to be addressed. Both votes were cast from the same computer. My first vote was cast while lurking (not signed in). Later, after signing in to reply to a post to another topic, I then opened the Poll topic to read a new post that had been made and saw that the poll was still open to me to cast a vote. My assumption was that there had been a software glitch and my first vote had been rejected because I had not been logged in at that time. So I voted again. Thing that bothers me is that the vote count increased in both instances. I pondered afterwards if it might have been possible to cast additional votes from additional IP addresses, but I did *NOT* pursue it. Should the ASSRA board ever decide to conduct polling, or allow electronic voting by the membership in the future, this is an issue that should be investigated and addressed beforehand.

	There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading, the few who learn by observation, and the rest who have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. Proud Noodlehead
	IP Logged

Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3874 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic Reply #52 - Dec 29^th, 2013 at 6:14pm
	Thanks, BP! Looks like a project for the IT people. I think Polls have a limited but valid value. The basic principles of organization of the forum are good, but there are some issues that are not being addressed. Obviously.

	Cat Whisperer (trk) Chief of Smoke Pulaski Coehorn Works and Skunk Works Drafted May 1970, Retired Maj. U.S.Army assra #9885
	WWW IP Logged

SSShooter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2917 Location: Southern NJ Joined: Aug 1^st, 2010	Re: What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic Reply #53 - Dec 29^th, 2013 at 8:18pm
	CW - are we hearing (reading) a volunteer?

	Glenn - 2x CPA 44 1/2 w/22LR (Shilen ratchet-rifled & Bartlein 5R rifled), 38-40RH & 38-55WCF (Bartlein 5R rifled) & 40-65WCF (GrnMtn 'X') barrels
	GTalk IP Logged

BP Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 8039 Location: Westside Joined: Aug 27^th, 2006	Re: What changes should be made limiting the Off-Topic Reply #54 - Dec 29^th, 2013 at 10:03pm
	SSShooter, I know what you're up to. Trying to get me to burn out what's left of my eyesight reading almost infinite lines of programming code, and then be forced to sell off my rifles because I can't see to shoot them anymore. I'm not falling for that trick!

	There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading, the few who learn by observation, and the rest who have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. Proud Noodlehead
	IP Logged

Pages: 1 2 3 [4]

Send Topic

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

« Board Index ‹ Board Top

Page completed in 1.1078 seconds.