Austrian Elections & Politics 5.0 (Burgenland state election - January 26)

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Tender, please refrain from posting more than about 20% of an article you're linking. You know Dave's policy on copyright.

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Tender, please refrain from posting more than about 20% of an article you're linking. You know Dave's policy on copyright.

Usually I do, but sometimes I just copy the whole text.

You can then shorten it if you like. It's your job (again ?!?)

Look, I'm sorry, but I must insist you show some restrain yourself. Dave's rules.

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Tender, please refrain from posting more than about 20% of an article you're linking. You know Dave's policy on copyright.

Usually I do, but sometimes I just copy the whole text.

You can then shorten it if you like. It's your job (again ?!?)

Look, I'm sorry, but I must insist you show some restrain yourself. Dave's rules.

This doesn't happen often anyway ...

I've just had to modify like six posts, so just saying.

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Tender, please refrain from posting more than about 20% of an article you're linking. You know Dave's policy on copyright.

Usually I do, but sometimes I just copy the whole text.

You can then shorten it if you like. It's your job (again ?!?)

Look, I'm sorry, but I must insist you show some restrain yourself. Dave's rules.

This doesn't happen often anyway ...

I've just had to modify like six posts, so just saying.

It would be better if you are not modifying old posts. I guess you have something better to do in your free time. But I will look more carefully in the future.

Thank you.

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This is a thread dedicated to Austria. Please keep discussions about politics of other countries to their respective threads.

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This is a thread dedicated to Austria. Please keep discussions about politics of other countries to their respective threads.

I think Andi just accidentally copied it into the wrong thread ...

Just trying to keep those pesky migrating posts from corrupting this Austrian thread.

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In Oberndorf, the SPÖ candidate Georg Djundja has defeated the ÖVP candidate Sabine Mayrhofer by 56-44 and will become the first directly elected openly gay mayor in Salzburg.

At first I thought it's Bushie with his Black "children" and without his pedo staches.

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"Fascists will de-radicalize when faced with the responsibilities of sharing power" - they said, many times and in many places.

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Note to copyright-enforcer Kalwejt: This is a free license, I checked on Flickr.

Good man.

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Thank you for catching this, Russian Bear.

Tender, please add the proper credit and be more careful next time.

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Since you've failed to modify the post when asked, I've moderated it.

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Note: Tender, what the hell did you expect will happen when you post an image with a clear (C) note?

It's an infographic from the APA. Everyone posts these kinds of graphics. Stop acting like copyright-Nazis, please.

Doesn't matter what "everyone does", since Dave's been very clear on the issue. You're not the only one to whom it's being applied.

And as a former mod you should know that modyfing a moderated post back to its previous state is a giant no-no. 

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I'd like to take this opportunity to reiterate what I've been saying for some time.

Sure, it may not seem like such a big deal, but Dave had to deal with some claims, that could've very well ended up in litigation (I myself was surprised it came to this), so his desire to be as careful with this thing as possible is perfectly logical. I can't rule out the situation in which Dave would rather shut down this forum than allow legally problematic actions by some posters to potentially put the work of his life, the Atlas, in any jeopardy.

I really hate to deal with this mess, having to check numerous pictures, react to numerous reports and so on, but I'd rather be a hardass about this than let Dave down.

So, please, do what Omega21 just did, include the proper attribution. And if you can't do this, don't include images.

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Alexander Van der Bellen: 79% approve, (was at ca. 50-40 before the crisis)

Why is there such a visible difference?

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Now, this is a way to combat the spread of the worst brand of Islamism.

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Let's quote a quote from The Right Honourable Francis Urquhart to describe Kurz: "no background and no bottom".

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I mean, he's a traitor to Austria. That's worth a death penalty (if that wasn't already abolished yet).

The only European country which still has the death penalty is Belarus.

And Austria is among the least likely countries to bring it back.

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Tender, you are still required, just as everybody else, to provide proper attribution showing the images you post are free for use, per Dave's directive. Just so you know I'll be deleting all unsourced pictures, sans for polling graphics and electoral posters.

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Tender, you are still required, just as everybody else, to provide proper attribution showing the images you post are free for use, per Dave's directive. Just so you know I'll be deleting all unsourced pictures, sans for polling graphics and electoral posters.

Sure, but where did I post them ?

I see you deleted a picture from the youth politician debate from the public ORF, which is not copyrighted. The ORF content is free to view and use (at least for Austrians).

Therefore I would say that you should not delete ORF pictures in the future.

I also think a picture of Norbert Hofer from the FPÖ page was deleted, which is also free for all to use.

And you should've attributed it as such. I'll remove infraction for this one, but in the future I'm not going to be checking every unsourced image.

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Meanwhile, the SPÖ is a total clusterf**k with ongoing internal intrigues like before the election.

Being in a total clusterf**k over internal intrigues is pretty common for European social democratic parties, amrite?

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Meanwhile, the SPÖ is a total clusterf**k with ongoing internal intrigues like before the election.

Being in a total clusterf**k over internal intrigues is pretty common for European social democratic parties, amrite?

Not sure about other countries, but the image the SPÖ has displayed to voters over the past week has been very troubling, if not worse than what the FPÖ is producing right now with the Strache Facebook shutdown and Philippa's seat.

Labour or Parti Socialiste are particularly notorious for internal infighting and factionalism.