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Everyone Benefits from COMMUNITY!
If you spend any time in DIG’s Answer Line you’ll quickly discover something surprising:
The array of widely different personalities
who inhabit the Answer Line discussions have formed a
true, cohesive, community of terrific people.
As a result, our round-the-clock online discussion groups — containing 4,738 total postings and 508 postings in just the past four weeks! — have become one of the Answer Line’s most popular, useful, and important features — the DIG discussions present a potent self-education and problem solving resource.
The people participating in the Answer Line are
interested in, and are unusually well informed
about Real Estate investment and property management.
You will also discover what we others continue to find: a community of terrific, interesting, and well-informed kindred spirits. Though we never expected this to happen, the discussions on the Answer Line have taken on a life of their own and have become a great place to hang out. You are invited to jump in to ask or answer a specific question, to find out what’s happening in the world of Real Estate investing in the Philadelphia area . . . and to stay as long as you like.
Whether you choose to lurk and read, or voice your
own opinion, you will find plenty to think about here!
What’s a Discussion Group?
The Answer Line is based upon standard Internet-style email discussion groups. Although reminiscent of eMail messaging, discussion groups add the powerful concept of “conversation threads” where people are able to reply to specific public postings and the discussion group system keeps track of these individual conversation threads.
As is true with any community, discussion groups
have unspoken, assumed, rules of conduct.
We are pleased to frequently hear that the Answer Line is by far the “nicest” group most people have encountered on the Internet. We believe this is true because most people here follow a few simple guidelines which we hope you will also consider adopting. When you consider that hundreds of postings have been made to the Answer Line in just the past four weeks, you can imagine that a bit of “netiquette” goes a long way toward keeping everything in order.
- Plan to take your time and try not to be in a hurry. This web site a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) with answers to most of your questions about how to use the Answer Line.
- Try to keep in mind that the people here want to be helpful — that’s really why they’re here. But they are volunteering their time because they are interested in helping each other succeed. They don’t “owe” you (or anyone else) anything. So, approaching everyone with respect is the best way to get what you want from the experience.
- Try to read as much of the recent content of the discussions as possible. This will allow you to develop a feeling for the place before posting your own message or asking a question. Asking a question that was just asked — and answered — is not the best formula for success in any community. And since answers don’t appear instantly (because someone must logon, update, read, and respond to your posting), looking back into the group’s recent history is always the best plan.
- When you do make a posting, please try to give it an informative subject line! With many dozens of new postings per day, most people only have time to scan the subject lines and read a small percentage of the total traffic. So try to “sell your question or comment” by being specific , don’t just say: “URGENT HELP NEEDED!” (And avoid using ALL CAPS!)
- It is considered extremely bad form to quote all of the lines of a previous message and simply add “yeah, me too” to the end. This creates a huge waste of storage and downloading time. It is a sure way to annoy the entire community. So, please take the time to trim unnecessary text from any postings you are quoting.
Our Profanity and Obscenity Policy:
As mature visitors to public, non-moderated, forums, we must — unfortunately — be prepared to encounter the unexpected obscene, profane, or hateful posting.
If there was a “censorship scale” for the posting-removal policy of corporate sponsored discussion groups such as ours, we would deliberately place ourselves at the “extremely tolerant” end of the scale. But, by no means, does this imply that “anything goes” here.
Postings that are obscene, profane, or hateful — where that expression is deemed to be present for its own sake rather than in support of an otherwise useful statement — will be immediately removed from the discussions.
Anyone and everyone is encouraged to join in our dialog to share their thoughts and feelings, no matter how strongly they wish to express them, but postings which are purely abusive and intended only to be disruptive, will be removed. Continuing this type of behavior will get the poster banned from participation.
This is not a free-for-all — it is a site for the serious discussion of Real Estate investing and property management. By abiding by some simple tenets of respectful conduct, we all gain.
What’s a “subscription”??
One of the aspects of the our discussion group is the idea of “subscribing” (or not).
For example, you probably do want to subscribe to the basic discussions in order to keep track of what’s happening. But you probably don’t want to subscribe to the Digest, since you will not have the opportunity for day to day participation. (Although you may want to use that option if you don’t want to get sometimes dozens of emails a day or are going on vacation). The digest accumulates all of the discussions, separates them into “discussion threads,” and sends them every other day.
To Subscribe or not to Subscribe?
THAT is the Question…
The Answer Line is a DIG member benefit. To permanently subscribe to the Answer Line click heredigonline-subscribe@pil.net and send the email with your Name, City, and the expiration date on your membership card so that we can confirm who you are.
If you aren’t yet a member of DIG, and would like to ‘test drive’ the Answer Line, click on the link above and send the email with your Name and Address as we can’t allow Anonymous memberships. And please join us at our next monthly meeting. We know you’ll like us!
Politics and Protocol:
In addition to the “Netiquette” issues discussed above, a few additional points bear mentioning:
To post to the Answer Line:
Send your emails to digonline@pil.net
The Answer Line is ‘unmoderated’:
In other words, there is nothing to prevent any one from posting any thing at any time. This absolute posting freedom is occasionally abused, with the result that hateful and profane postings are sometimes made by newsgroup “trolls” (as they are called) for no purpose other than to annoy and upset the groups readers.
We will immediately delete any purely abusive postings which appear in the groups, and we would appreciating knowing of any that you may encounter. Please send a note containing the entire posting to ‘ digonline-moderator@pil.net ‘ and we’ll zap it immediately.
Please DO NOT FEED the trolls:
Trolls post annoying and abusive messages in order to incite anger and in an attempt to force reactions. Difficult as it can be at times, PLEASE AVOID REPLYING TO ALL SUCH POSTS and thus feeding the trolls. Since trolls exist only for the attention they can generate, they will leave only — and always — when they are simply ignored.
If you need help:
If you are confused or uncertain about any aspect of the Answer Line operation or protocol, emailing your question to ‘ digonline-moderator@pil.net ‘ is guaranteed to get a quick answer.
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