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J.Y. Ping
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Hey guys, we have a really awesome community here that's positive and supportive, thank you for that.
I hope these simple rules to regulate this discussion forum will help ensure that we continue to have a caring community:
Rules
1. Be nice. Behind the screen is a person reading what you write to them.
2. Be thankful for other people's time. It takes time for someone to answer a question. Whether you like the answer or not, they were trying to help.
3. Advertisements or solicitations for services or products are not allowed. This includes tutoring, advertising other companies, webinars that are not from 7Sage, or links offsite to your personal pages (eg. blog, tutoring services, etc). Please also refrain from making threads / commenting, or messaging students about buying or selling products. (This includes LSAT watches or any LSAT materials.)
4. Do not post LSAT questions, any copyrighted content, or links to content that infringe on copyright.
5. Do not ask other students for copies of LSAT questions or to share accounts.
Formatting Guidelines
1. Format for posting questions about specific Reading Comprehension (RC) questions:
"PT#.S#.Q# (P#) - brief description of stimulus" E.g. PT60.S1.Q7 (P4) - social behaviors of insects
2. Format for posting questions about specific Logical Reasoning (LR) questions:
"PT#.S#.Q# - brief description of question" E.g. PT37.S1.Q12 - Political scientist: Efforts to create a more egalitarian
Tips
1. Do not to post your email or phone number publicly. Spam bots might pick up your email & number and you'll get spam. If you want to share contact info, you can use direct messaging.
2. Use the "Flag" button to notify the admins about any violations.
I hope these simple rules to regulate this discussion forum will help ensure that we continue to have a caring community:
Rules
1. Be nice. Behind the screen is a person reading what you write to them.
2. Be thankful for other people's time. It takes time for someone to answer a question. Whether you like the answer or not, they were trying to help.
3. Advertisements or solicitations for services or products are not allowed. This includes tutoring, advertising other companies, webinars that are not from 7Sage, or links offsite to your personal pages (eg. blog, tutoring services, etc). Please also refrain from making threads / commenting, or messaging students about buying or selling products. (This includes LSAT watches or any LSAT materials.)
4. Do not post LSAT questions, any copyrighted content, or links to content that infringe on copyright.
5. Do not ask other students for copies of LSAT questions or to share accounts.
Formatting Guidelines
1. Format for posting questions about specific Reading Comprehension (RC) questions:
"PT#.S#.Q# (P#) - brief description of stimulus" E.g. PT60.S1.Q7 (P4) - social behaviors of insects
2. Format for posting questions about specific Logical Reasoning (LR) questions:
"PT#.S#.Q# - brief description of question" E.g. PT37.S1.Q12 - Political scientist: Efforts to create a more egalitarian
Tips
1. Do not to post your email or phone number publicly. Spam bots might pick up your email & number and you'll get spam. If you want to share contact info, you can use direct messaging.
2. Use the "Flag" button to notify the admins about any violations.
Comments
Being nice is compatible with expressing your opinions / disagreeing. It's not always easy to disagree respectfully, but we should strive.
This is the thread that got out of hand and I encourage you all to read it:
http://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/2334/lsat-day-dreams
I thought @blah170blah and @"Allison M" presented respectful, intelligent, and well articulated arguments. I did not detect any personal attacks. I encourage you to engage with arguments like the ones they made.
The same kind of arguments though difficult could conceivably have been made on the other side but sadly were not. "While I like to sit here to read the long essays and chat with you all, I'm gonna go back to study for lsat so I can chat with real lawyers" is dangerously close to a personal attack. The implication is that your debaters are not "real lawyers" (true) and therefore unworthy of your engagement (false). The erroneous assumption is that only lawyers are worthy of engagement in debate. Further, "I say this very politely, SHUT UP EVERYONE!" is simply contradictory. Yelling at everyone to "shut up" is necessarily impolite. In fact, it's abusive.
The deleted user emailed Alan yesterday to delete their 7Sage account in direct response to what happened in that thread. We have complied with their request. The deleted user was not enrolled in a 7Sage course.
We are re-opening the thread in case anyone's up to the challenge of making a well reasoned argument on why the LSAC should be allowed to disclose to law schools extra time given for disabilities:
http://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/2345/should-the-lsac-be-allowed-to-disclose-to-law-schools-extra-time-given-for-disabilities
My gf is preparing for the LSAT and I've been helping her prep. I'm going to take it with her for fun. I'm doing a little prep myself and have already benefited greatly from the free LG videos. She may enroll in a paid account which I will in no way attempt to use fraudulently. Trouble is we share several networks/devices, and I presume you'd use IP or device ID to catch the fraudsters. I'd prefer not getting her banned for that reason. See the issue? Thoughts?
This is the thread:
http://7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/6431/public-interest-law-loan-forgiveness
For the record @westerhoff93 was banned for their antigay remark. You cannot insinuate that someone is gay as an insult. Go think about what you said and when you've realized why you did something bad and you're ready to make an apology, we'll be here.
Edit: The user tried to change their username to @trickdaddy69 to try and evade the ban. It doesn't work that way.
Updated rule #7 to make the wording a little more clear.
For rule #10, what if the person did not intend to be yelling but their keyboard was broken? Or what if they did not know the social keyboard etiquette and just typed in all caps (I know of some people lol). Do they still violate the policy off an assumption that they are yelling? Love the rules though, you guys are great!
I think for a situation like this context matters and the moderators will take that into consideration.
That's true. But how would they prove that the person is telling the truth? Because I saw a comment written in all caps and then a moderator replied back saying to not write in caps as it is against the policy. But honestly the comment that commenter made was just a normal reply to someone, it was just written all in caps. So it is likely that he wasn't yelling and it seems that the policy doesn't allow all caps because of it implying yelling. I just felt bad for the commenter lol, totally redundant to even discuss lol!
(': thank you for defending the gays ya'll I appreciate it a lot. The curriculum and all the lovely 7sage users have helped me improve on the LSAT a lot so I obviously feel like my money has been well spent, but it feels even better knowing that I put my money towards such an inclusive company.
Hey everyone, I just updated the rules. I reorganized them a bit. I hope it's cleaner now.
I also have an announcement for a new guideline on criticizing other companies' products / services.
We generally don't say bad things here about non-7Sage products, services, etc. We try to keep it positive, as they say. And then every once in a while we do and it's a bit chaotic and the admins have to step in and close down threads.
I think, I hope, we can have constructive, negative conversations because I think those are valuable too. If something really sucks, then people should know. If something on 7Sage really sucks, I'd want to know. I don't want people to feel like they can't say something sucks when it sucks.
So, to help guide future conversations where you'd like to express dissatisfaction, I'm proposing the following guidelines.
With respect to these four distinct entities:
(1) LSAT students who are forum participants
(2) People who supply LSAT / law school admissions services or products
(3) LSAT / law school admissions companies, services, or products
(4) LSAT / law school admissions forums
(1) and (4) are generally off the table unless you have very good reasons to open that dialogue. (1) Because flame wars spread fast. (4) Because that kind of self-referential conversation ought to take place on the forum that you're criticizing. For example, if you want to say something bad about the lsat sub-reddit, it's probably better to say it over there, on that forum. These are not categorical prohibitions. I recognize that there could be good reasons to start those conversations.
(2) and (3) are fair game. Positive or negative comments. Both are valuable conversations to have. Please back up your claims with evidence. Paint a full picture so people reading the comments have context. I'd like for us to aim for constructive criticism.