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Policy
The purpose of SOS Quincy is to develop ideas, generate debate and ultimately convince elected officials to rethink their position on cutting the school’s budget. Robust debate is an important means to that end. We welcome bold, constructive observations. To us, this means commentary typical of thoughtful discussion between acquaintances who may hold differing views on important issues, but who debate those issues in a respectful manner. Insults, personal attacks, rudeness, and blanket unsupported statements reduce the level of discourse, interfere with our basic objective, and are not permitted.
We expect contributors to adhere to the fair use doctrine, which means at a minimum that all direct quotes must be linked or otherwise identified and that copyrighted works should not be reprinted in their entirety if an excerpt will suffice. A useful discussion about fair use can be found here on Wikipedia.
Penalties
Users who consistently violate our policies will receive a warning. Users who fail to heed our warning may be banned from the site.
Anonymity
It is found that commentators who disclose their real names are in general more likely to be constructive than those who are anonymous. We encourage users to add their real name, profession, age, the jurisdiction where they vote, and conflicts of interest to their profile. Anonymous commentators are allowed, but we encourage such users to provide as much of this information as they can manage. Impersonation of real people is not allowed and user accounts that do this will be deleted as soon as we become aware of any such practice.
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Ali Crehan Feeney | May 19, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Thanks for setting up this site. I note your policy on anonymous contributors, which I think is prudent – but I also notice that there are no names listed for the maintainers of this blog. I thank you for setting up this blog, but I do think that anyone who wants to be taken seriously needs to put their name(s) on whatever they publish. I find that omission puzzling.
Just my two cents. Again, thanks for setting up the blog.
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Michelle Morris | May 19, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I agree with Ali. Who is maintaining this blog please?
michelle
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kevmah | May 20, 2008 at 1:17 am
Dear Ali and Michelle,
My Name is Kevin Mahoney and I have set this blog up. I did it yesterday. I have three children in the public school system and was very troubled by the City Council Meeting on 5/15. My wife Anne is a School Committee member and has contributed 1 post to this blog using her name. I did not set this up to be my forum or my wife’s forum. I set this up for the concerned citizens of Quincy. I have not deleted anyone’s post. I have the capability to do so but honestly I have not found anything that disturbing.
I hope you keep contributing and pass the word along.
Also: on a technical note the time is about 3 hrs. off on everyones post. I will fix it when I know how.