Vast majority? I lost count of the number of times you and other similarly misguided posters tried to create a politics subforum and lost before you finally mustered enough votes (with the help of a couple of turncoats like jAZ, who btw was one of the biggest spammers at the time) to get it done. Don't act like this was a slam dunk landslide.

It would be awesome. I say we try it for a couple of weeks

Your tears are just as tasty as always. :D

Votes? I knew it!

MODS! Please move this to the political forum.

Why would I want it moved? That's not my thing, it's yours.

As for your little poll, it seems kind of meaningless to me. It's meaningless because several of the "yes" voters made it clear that they only had abusive cases in mind, but more importantly it's meaningless because like so many of your other inane ideas, the mods are going to keep on being reasonable anyway.

It was a fun little thread though. Thanks for posting it. :)

We should talk to some of your liberal friends - perhaps we can rustle you up a "I participated" trophy. :thumb:

I want to sneak an "I voted for Obama" bumper sticker on his car. :evil:

It's not very gray IMO. If it's political or religious, then it stays in the DC, no matter who posts it (a DC regular, a Lounge-only regular, or a total noob).

The LONE exception is a major news event, one that rises above politics, then it stays in the Lounge until it's hijacked (then moved).

That exception is handled by the mods and they usually get it right. That's a gray area I'm comfortable with.

But the question being raised here is people who are deliberately and repeatedly trying to take minor stories with a political or religious angle and turning it into a debate in the Lounge.

That's worthy of punishment.

I'll take all the blame you have for creating the sub forum. It was the right thing to do and generally has worked out well. My only request the whole time was that it be listed as a sub forum of the Lounge and be given the visibility that the 2nd most trafficked forum deserved.

Since that change, I've been perfectly happy with the DC/Lounge situation.

If we police the political/religious threads in this manner, then we would have to police threads about movies, music, tv, electronics, etc in the same fashion, as we have a separate forum for those as well. And also threads about the draft, gambling, or fantasy sports, as they have their own forum, too. We can't just pick on threads about stuff that we may or may not like.

For this reason, I'm voting no. I think the mods are doing a good job the way they are handling things right now.

The mods move those threads, too. Which is fine. It's good those forums exist because it keeps the main forum cleaned up.

It's the nature of political/religious threads that are the problem. For example, nobody is going to post a picture of an aborted fetus in a thread about iPods.

I disagree 100%. Political threads account for nearly 15% of the entire Lounge and they are divisive and a major distraction to the general readers of the Lounge. That's hugely different than the media, pictures, draft and other forums.

Something just occurred to me. These people? What the **** you mean these people?

That's nonsense. Politics and religion spark more arguments and bile than any other subject. Keep it out of here.

You must have already forgotten about Mark Sanchez.