New Threads and Political Posting

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Op-Eds, blog postings and commentary are acceptable to start a new thread if they contain links to hard news stories or press releases. However, they must otherwise adhere to CAF rules on charity.

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This is going to be a long political season, let’s make it a charitable one at CAF.
 
You aren’t kidding it’s going to be a long season. Whew Republicans and conservatives are in full swing and the general still a year away.
 
Rule question in regards to op/ed posting (in preparation for the political season)

You said,

Op-Eds, blog postings and commentary are acceptable to start a new thread if they contain links to hard news stories or press releases. However, they must otherwise adhere to CAF rules on charity.

Is it:

a) acceptable to post an op/ed and links to separate factual information (hard news stories, primary source data – such as federal election commission contributions, records of speeches, etc) to substantiate assertions made in the op/ed?

b) acceptable to post a factual article as the subject and then immediately posting the op/ed as an analysis of the situation portrayed in the factual article?

c) acceptable to post links to videos that contain speeches (and speech extracts), debates (and debate extracts), or news items from televised news as the source data for a thread?

(Also, if (C) is acceptable, is there any way that CAF could change the permissions on the board software to allow HTML code to enable embedding the video in the post?..such as these examples:

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Thanks. I figure it’s best to clarify the ROE before the season gets really warmed up.
 
markomalley said:
Rule question in regards to op/ed posting (in preparation for the political season)

a) acceptable to post an op/ed and links to separate factual information (hard news stories, primary source data – such as federal election commission contributions, records of speeches, etc) to substantiate assertions made in the op/ed?
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Yes, the title of the thread should then reflect the title of the hard news story
b) acceptable to post a factual article as the subject and then immediately posting the op/ed as an analysis of the situation portrayed in the factual article?
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Yes
c) acceptable to post links to videos that contain speeches (and speech extracts), debates (and debate extracts), or news items from televised news as the source data for a thread?
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If you start a thread with a video it must be an entire news report (not an extract) or an entire speech (not an extract.) Too many people have learned the art of making their opponent look bad by taking sound bytes out of context.
(Also, if (C) is acceptable, is there any way that CAF could change the permissions on the board software to allow HTML code to enable embedding the video in the post?..such as these examples:

)

Thanks. I figure it’s best to clarify the ROE before the season gets really warmed up.
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We looked into that a little over a year ago and for technical reasons decided against it.
 
Robert_Bay said:
Yes, the title of the thread should then reflect the title of the hard news story

Yes

If you start a thread with a video it must be an entire news report (not an extract) or an entire speech (not an extract.) Too many people have learned the art of making their opponent look bad by taking sound bytes out of context.
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Thanks.
 
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