New Additions to Terms of Use

9:30 pm  Burlingame --  Russ and I have waited until today's voting closed to introduce a couple of new Terms of Use to the Voice.  We waited because we did not want to "change horses in the middle of the stream"--where the stream was the Controller's campaign, but that race appears to be over in Juan Raigoza's favor at about 2:1.  You can track the results here.

If you read the comments posted on the campaign thread, you will see two behaviors that will no longer be allowed on the Voice.  First, the repetitive posting of the same link over and over and over again as part of a comment will be deleted in the future.  Frankly whether you like or dislike such a link, it is irritating.  "Frances Jones" was too clueless to even realize when Fred was being sarcastic about having seen the news photo in question.  Just like spam, because of the pure irritation of it all it is now disallowed.

The second new Term of Use involves the images one might choose to be associated with one's comments.  The idea behind the images is to add some personality or character to one's post(s).  But using a current, local figure that is NOT YOU will be disallowed going forward. You can use Marilyn Monroe, George Patton or Clooney, Justin Timberlake or Bieber, your dog, a half-eaten Sam's Sandwich or a real picture of yourself.  We don't care.  You just cannot use someone else who is "live and local".  That's all, thanks for blogging on. 

Comments

[Cathy Baylock]

Thank you Joe and Russ. I thought "Frances Jones" was absolutely ridiculous in "her" obsessive use of the same photo and actually made me wonder if that was the best surrogate Alex Tourk could come up with. Congratulations to Juan Raigoza on his victory. I truly hope that "Ms. Jones" was some random blogger independent of his campaign.

[Frances Jones]

Cathy

I was. Mission accomplished.

Thanks for the forum.

Frances.

[Cathy Baylock]

I'd like to apologize for any remarks that I made that painted Campaign Advisor Alex Tourk in a negative light. My comment was made with "tongue in cheek" and was meant only as a light-hearted poke at what was a very contentious race. I truly wish Mr. Raigoza the very best and send my kindest congratulations!

Now…back to retirement!