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Congrats Carlos,

This shows that you are getting your word out there.

Thanks Carlos. I think it is important that folks see how some officers think of these same issues. I agree that we probably will never see eye to eye but it’s good to have both perspectives.

I have to admit that this site has made me aware that many officers don’t know how to properly react when someone takes their pictures. I guess since it doesn’t bother me (and there is nothing I could do about it if it did) I never really occurred to me that other officers would react so poorly.

So if anything, this site has helped me realize that there is an issue there that needs to be addressed through training. Since I am a supervisor, I have made sure to reinforce to my guys that they can be videotaped or photographed at anytime while in public and that they have to deal with it.
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for the record, i don’t think you’re a troll. someone has to come in here and calm us commies down otherwise we’ll get too big for our britches.

Peace! Officer!
(get it?)

Good on ya Johnny for being part of the solution. There’s no reason for photographers and police to be adversaries. You should get a bonus for preventing lawsuits.

Yeah, Johnny’s only a troll *sometimes*.
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Congrats Carlos and good luck with the trial.
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We demonstrate not merely naivete, but denial if we attempt proceeding in discussion as if, say, the Federalist Papers got immediate, universal acceptance. Not only do we have the major complications of egos compounded by ignorance (as nearly any thread soon demonstrates). PINAC takes on issues far more seriously effecting how we will be able to live than do many questions about which people disagree. Some of these issues do not have obvious, easily discernable solutions. In many discussions PINAC provokes we can even see commenters that have grasped some excellent principle get so tangled up by that principle that they cannot give credence to other principles. No wonder flame wars sometimes result.

Good for you, Carlos, on a two million hits. Good, too, for pondering a layout that will encourage and facilitate difficult discussion.

as far as the layout goes, and this isn’t a complaint, mind you (yet), this site should be variable width. It’s 2010, even the cheapest laptops come with widescreens, and buying a square monitor (to match ones you already have) is nearly impossible.

Reading a page tuned for 4:3 screens on a 16:10 hurts my eyes and scrolly finger. Expand the center and bring out the right margin a bit and you’ll have twice the space to work with.

If you are serious about creating a more interactive online community here be forewarned that it is not easy. Discussion forums are very different animals than blogs and come with a lot of issues. In my experience, forums that are not well thought out from the beginning by people who are familiar with them and their pitfalls will fizzle or burn out.

But rule number one is listen to the community you have, don’t try to moderate your way to the community you want, or you will end up with neither.