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It is no wonder your students...

It is no wonder your students...

Fri, 12/30/2005 - 09:57 — Alan Maki
cjose Spiderman... if we can't even freely discuss our ideas on here, where are people supposed to be able to develop a meaningful dialogue... I received notice about this website inviting discussion... apparently the only discussion that is wanted is what serves the people who own this web site.

Please Repost Your Full Essay

Submitted by Paige Wilder on Tue, 01/03/2006 - 10:45.
***Town Hall Participants: This discussion thread refers to the earlier topic posted by Alan Maki, entitled "Thoughts on Aldo Leopold" - a link can be found to the right under "Recent Posts."***
Dear Alan,
Please feel free to repost your full essay. It will appear in its entirety.
I apologize for not explaining earlier why your post was shortened.
To encourage deliberative dialogue, we feel it is ideal to keep Town Hall posts relatively shortwithin a discussion thread.
Yours was the first exceptionally long post, and we hadn't yet implemented the functionality necessary to handle it and other long posts. As a stop gap measure, we selected excerpts from your post.
As of this morning, ALL posts longer than 2500 characters (including white spaces) automatically appear in a truncated form within their discussion thread. However, a link is provided to the full, unedited version.
I recommend that you post your full essay as a reply to this discussion thread, so Town Hall participants eager to read your essay have ready access.
Again, I'm sorry for any frustration our actions may have caused for you. I'd also like to thank you for pointing out this short-coming of the Town Hall - your feedback has, no doubt, helped us to avoid such situations in the future.
Thanks Again,
Paige
Paige Wilder
Great Lakes Town Hall Manager
paige@greatlakestownhall.org
608-250-9876

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Submitted by Dave Dempsey on Fri, 12/30/2005 - 12:38.
Alan,
We are trying to figure out a way to accommodate your very long postings. The reason your Leopold essay was truncated on the site is that it simply took up too much room. We will repost it in its entirety as soon as we figure out a way to handle the length. We had envisioned postings of 300-500 words on this site, but I'm confident we can figure out a way to address and invite essays like yours. Please don't assume the worst.
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