Why post tragic news stories?

[Deb in IA]

Reporting these already reported stories on a message board. Most of them are simply links to things well covered elsewhere.

You might want to re-read the DISBoard guidelines.

I've copied the relevant parts here:

8. LINKS TO OTHER SITES: You are free to post a link to your web site on our discussion boards, provided that a) you are not offering a commercial service or for profit venture, b) you do not repeatedly and excessively post the same link over and over again on the forums within our site, and c) that you place a link back to the DIS on your site in an area easily found. From time to time you might wish to post links to other sites that contain information not found here on the DIS. While we encourage this, we ask that you please make sure the information is not already contained on our site (remember, the boards make up only 10% of our site).

 

[Bob Slydell]

Not taking sides on this, Deb, but I read Mike's OP as not saying that people shouldn't be allowed to post news stories, but wondering why people tend to post the sad and morbid ones (which I don't think is totally true -- I've seen happy, uplifting stories posted on the CB as well).

 

[AuntieM03]

There are alot of things posted on these boards that one could ask why the need was felt to post them. The beauty is you don't have to read them if you don't want to.