Want to post up a long article?

libcom "admin"
Posts: 3733 Joined: 20-03-05 Location: on the internet
Submitted by libcom on 29 October, 2006 - 21:57.

We don't like long articles being posted into forums posts - instead, please do one of the following.

- if the article is online please post a link to it
- if it is not online, and it is suitable for our library please post it to there by clicking create content, then library entry as our library guidelines explain.
- if it is not online but is not suitable for our library, please login to http://docs.google.com (or without login at: http://paste.turbogears.org/) and paste your article there, then publish it publicly.

In your post then please summarise the article and post a link to it.

Many thanks.

Jason Cortez "Wrong on all the crucial issues"
Posts: 1342 Joined: 14-11-04 Location: Deptford, South East London, London, U.K.
14 November, 2006 - 01:54

How long is long?

rkn "Root Knot Nematode"
Posts: 7629 Joined: 17-07-06 Location: London
21 November, 2006 - 18:57

It depends. I guess on readability and formatting as well. 200 words could be long - if its formatted in a narrow column. Depends on the style it is written, what we want is relatively easy to read forum speak, not academic jargon etc.

http://libcom.org/forums/thought/radicals-and-a-science-fetish

I'd say that thread is fine. But thats also his own words, not a copy and paste, which matters. Anyway that post is just over 500. So yeah I'd say 500 words max.

Think about it in terms of reading someone else's posts - would you read what you are about to post or would it be too long?

robbo203
Posts: 59 Joined: 02-03-07
16 March, 2007 - 00:40

Hi RkN

I have an article I wrote last year for Common Voice but it is several thousand words long. I could post a single link to it if that is OK. It deals with the Misesean "Economic Calculation Argument" purporting to show the impossibility of economic calculation in a communist/socialist society. I would very much like some feedback on this to refine the arguments against the anarcho-capitalists

Would it be OK to post this link here?

Robin

catch "unpractical[sic] and blinkered"
Posts: 9938 Joined: 07-02-06 Location: London
16 March, 2007 - 09:57

posting links is fine - it's copying and pasting the several thousand words into a forum topic that we don't like wink

anarchyjordan "banned"
Posts: 287 Joined: 21-07-07
21 July, 2007 - 23:14

here is a video about the von mises capitalists.

jambo1 "anarchy in the far north?"
Posts: 217 Joined: 02-06-07 Location: invergordon, ross-shire
21 July, 2007 - 23:26

can i throw a wee spanner in the thread here, i am pretty new to ideas and thought on anarchist principles. can people provide me with a reading guide? not a long article from me but a cry for help!!

catch "unpractical[sic] and blinkered"
Posts: 9938 Joined: 07-02-06 Location: London
22 July, 2007 - 08:18

jambo1 - you'd be best posting that as a new thread in thought.

jambo1 "anarchy in the far north?"
Posts: 217 Joined: 02-06-07 Location: invergordon, ross-shire
22 July, 2007 - 09:21

cheers for that, will do.