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Does the recommendation below seem to make sense?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:48 pm 
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To keep it nice and clean, here's my two cents on how to post in here:

To report a disarmament zone, title like this:
"Store name, City, Bans Guns"

To report a non-posted location, title like this:
"Store name, City, isn't posted"

To report a gun friendly zone, title like this:
"Store name, City, Encourages Guns"


To request confirmation of signage, title like this:
[Question] Does "Store name, City" Ban Guns?

And once someone has provided the information requested, the original poster can edit their title to be one of the two options above.

Anyone else have some thoughts?


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I personally don't think we should have the: "Store, Non-posted, City" item. Can you imagine how many listings there would be? Maybe better would be a listing such as: "Not Posted, but told to leave while carrying. Store, City."


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I personally don't think we should have the: "Store, Non-posted, City" item. Can you imagine how many listings there would be? Maybe better would be a listing such as: "Not Posted, but told to leave while carrying. Store, City."


I agree there, http://www.gunfreezones.com/ has over 600 listings you can sort by location or name. Searching hundreds of forum pages would not be an easy task.


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I personally don't think we should have the: "Store, Non-posted, City" item. Can you imagine how many listings there would be? Maybe better would be a listing such as: "Not Posted, but told to leave while carrying. Store, City."


I agree - this definately will generate many pages of listings....I tossed that in as an idea for what to do with topics that someone might have a question about...like if I were traveling somewhere unfamiliar and didn't know if the location was posted. Hmm, what to do with those types of Qs...


  
 
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Ugh. That was me above.


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And again, in the body of the message, report on the details. Give a name, address, phone and email, if possible.

The point is not just to know who posts, but to do something about it, right?

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And again, in the body of the message, report on the details. Give a name, address, phone and email, if possible.

The point is not just to know who posts, but to do something about it, right?


Excellent call - especially if you can get a manager / owner's name, or whomever you spoke with at the time. It's amazing what some employees might say when the boss isn't around ;)


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While it will undoubtedly get rather large and cumbersome over time, it may work fairly well to simply have a thread for each business reported. Hopefully, as you originally suggested, a standardized thread title of some sort. It would help to make searching on a business much more reasonable.

With seperate dedicated threads, progress (or lack of it) with each business could be tracked.

Hopefully, if we see a business pull their sign we'll make that clear too. Possibly some sort of standardized mod to the thread title? If a business pulls it's sign, it could be argued that the thread for that business is more significant than ever.

Hate to suggest this, but I think we need a (*shudder*) process.

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I think having a thread per business is a good option personally. I'm likely to check this section every day or two; if I notice a store name that i'm likely to visit, I can file that information for a visit there, or help by sending them a letter. This sort of posting obviously doesn't preclude putting the entry in gunfreezones, but as we find them it will allow us to note them for other people to observe.

If I'm looking to search for an area or specific business, I'll just check the database, it's alot more efficient then trying to trudge through a sticky, but this seems like it would work nicely as a listserv type function.

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WHY NOT JUST A LIST OF BUSINESSES THAT BAN GUNS,
LIKE "THE FOLLOWING BUSINESSES BAN GUNS" KISS (KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID)


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PaddyBoy wrote:
WHY NOT JUST A LIST OF BUSINESSES THAT BAN GUNS,
LIKE "THE FOLLOWING BUSINESSES BAN GUNS" KISS (KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID)


Because many of us are posting separately, and because we are looking for additional information on how to contact them and change their minds.

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Matt Payne wrote:
PaddyBoy wrote:
WHY NOT JUST A LIST OF BUSINESSES THAT BAN GUNS,
LIKE "THE FOLLOWING BUSINESSES BAN GUNS" KISS (KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID)


Because many of us are posting separately, and because we are looking for additional information on how to contact them and change their minds.
Plus, it gets complicated. Business A posts, then takes the posting down later, or deliberately (as I know of in several cases) posts noncompliantly, with a wink and a nod to permit holders.

How to handle that in a listing?

Well, I think the best way would be some sort of database to handle it, myself, or some kind of web space where people could enter information, and update their own and each others' work . . .

Hmm...

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GunFreeZones does that already.

And it's as updates as we can keep it (except for a business un-posting -- I think the admin has to do that.)

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some kind of web space where people could enter information, and update their own and each others' work . . .

Hmm...

Wicki?

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