Posting Political/Religious Threads in the Main Forum
 

Eventually a mod shows up to move the damned thing, but this has been happening way too much lately.

We have a special playground for all your politards and bible thumpers/haters for a reason.

I propose that from this point forward people who do this should lose their thread starting privileges, at least temporarily.

What about my Ululogy thread? I don't want to lose my thread starting rights and see ChiefsPlanet suffer as a result. My threads are the awesomest threads and I don't want to see ChiefsPlanet members pay the penalty for my mistake. Think of the children.

I just know that, a lot of times, a person will engage in ulology when their favorite person gets elected or maybe dies, so ululation could be considered both religious and political, but I didn't mean for it to be, honest.

FAX

blame GoChiefs. he's the only one I see that posts that crap in the main lounge.

I'll second that motion to rescind his thread-starting privileges.

As for the rest....eh, it gives DaFace something to do.

If it's consistent and blatant, I can understand why: because a mod would get tired of moving it. On those grounds, I could support it.

Oh great now we got a free speech thread in the main forum ........... Dammit Frazod!!!!!!!!!! :cuss: :cuss:

I voted yes.

And, technically, since this is a political/religious thread... buh-bye, see you in a week when the ban on you is lifted. :)

I agree but there are some threads that are clearly not supposed to be political/religious in nature but some dumbass turns them that way. An exception should be made for those threads.

Agree completely with this. One that are intentional should get a week off.

This...

I'm okay with that. You can't blame the thread starter.

I'd be okay with a temp ban of thread starting privlidges. You should know better to start with anyway.

with most of the crap that shows up in the Lounge, what does it hurt?

someone afraid that their poop thread doesn't leave a skid mark on the front page so everyone knows it is there.

I vote for putting all non football related crap in a different place.

Septic tank running over

I voted no. Too often something turns political based on responses. Even more though, what else is there to read in the Lounge lately? It seems to me that most of the threads are placed in the appropriate forum, if someone posts a thread in the wrong spot every once in a while it doesn't throw the earth of its axis, who cares. Remember, DaFace is holding this world together, it's going to be ok.

Just think if Frazod was a mod ther'd be nobody able to start a thread except for him.

Well, I'd likely implement minimum intelligence standards. That would pretty much preclude you from ever starting another one.

Yes, if it's determine to be an intentional type thing and not a borderline issues.


a temp thread starting ban would work

I disagree sometimes the line between politics and news is so thin. The IRS Pilot story is a good example of that.

IMO, most of them are absolutely deliberate, posted by members who have always resented the formation of the DC forum (despite the fact that they won't admit it). I liken it to testing a perimeter for weakenesses.

There's a difference between an obvious inflammatory thread and a news story thread that gets dragged into the abyss by angry politards. All it takes to determine one from another is a little common sense.

agreed ... i was just leaving it open for a possibility of a borderline thread.

Yes and a kick to the nuts.

I think anyone who posts a thread in the Lounge that lures MemyselfI out of DC should lose their thread starting privileges.

Well, now you've said its name. Way to go Bugeater. It should be posting in this thread any minute now.

who cares you f'n crybabies. if ya don't like the thread, don't read it. its the offseason, and there isn't much to discuss anyway. a lot of people come here for the variation of threads. if it was only football people talked about here, there wouldn't be near as many people here. you internet dorks amuse me.

You can blame Frazod for that, after all he's the one who posted the thread.:p


This isn't about getting rid of all NFTs, dipshit.

Is this the line for the hole-y communion?

Really? That happens to me sometimes if my jeans are rubbing. You might want to get the old prostate checked out.

Hey, you invoked her, not me. :D

But frankly, there are now several over there who are just as bad, if not worse.

FYP

What do you think this, a football forum?:cuss:

I voted yes assuming these principles behind it.

They used to have this same debate at PatriotsPlanet all the time, and the verdict was always that the wacky any-topic-goes stuff is what kept it interesting. Segregating the football stuff out might make the football stuff dry up. Besides, it's the offseason.

Just make sure you don't go too much in the wrong direction. I don't post on Patsfans 'cause I can't figure out the literally 2,580 different boards they have for everything over there. Too much of a good thing is just as bad as not enough. You guys at least have the Media area and the Pictures area, which are more than PatriotsPlanet, so I think you've got a decent setup here.

Yes, that was how I intended it.

Despite what morons like rambleonwithmyheadupmyass think, this wouldn't limit anybody from doing anything. People should be able to post all the political horseshit they want, just where it belongs.

If I come to your house, you probably won't mind if I take a dump, as long as I do it in the bathroom and not on top the coffee table.

You're totally going to hell for this. Deservedly so.

Good thing I don't believe in hell huh? ROFL

You just haven't met my ex-wife yet.

I propose that from this point forward if half or more of your posts are in the DC forum you should be given a permanent IP ban.

1. There is no way there will every be a "football only" forum on the Planet. It just ain't gonna happen.
2. The topic of the OP is kind of enforced informally anyway. If it's blatant, it'll be taken care of.

Well honestly I couldn't care less where anything is posted. I only voted yes to make yours, and the good Senator's life easier.

I think having a football only forum wouldn't be good. I talk Chiefs football a couple of times a week, otherwise I'm bullshitting about God knows what. A daily visitor here can only wax philosophy so long until it's all repetitive.

Great. Way to draw the religitards to the thread, Flop.

FTR, I was not suggesting a "football only" forum, as I'm sure you realize. But obviously there is a huge difference between religious and political threads that will draw out every extremist nutjob that posts here and threads about beer, or BBQ, or ex-girlfriends.

****. I'm gonna get banned. Goddammit! Shit, I did it again.

I think I suggested this the last time frazod wanted people's privileges taken away. I think all MU fans shouldn't be able to start threads. :p

Yeah, I know. I was only addressing it because it came up in the thread.

Wasn't Frazod the primary participant in the biggest political thread ever posted in the lounge?(smoking bans)

Going to agree with both points. :thumb:

I certainly was. But it was, and is, in DC where it belongs.

Doesn't really matter. It's settled policy that religious/political topics are not posted in the lounge.

Is there a reason people can't just ignore the threads they don't like? I don't click on the majority of threads that are posted in the lounge, and open the ones I am interested in. Seems to work well.

I see your join date is August of 2005. This means you weren't here in the fall of 2004 when 2/3rds of the front page was political threads, constantly, right in the middle of football season. That's the reason the DC forum was created in the first place.

These people must be contained. It's as simple as that.

Fair enough.

Has there been some huge influx of political/religious threads recently that caused you to start this thread? Maybe I've just missed them, since, like I said I ignore threads I don't want to open. I typically never see more than one thread at a time on the front page of the lounge that I would imagine is a political or religious thread though.

Yes, there has been. Perhaps one of the mods could site examples. Once a thread gets moved to DC from the main forum, there's no way that I know of to search for it.

No, who are you the government ? Seriously, If I'm at work and I make a mistake, so what. What big fine or tax dollars am I costing CP ?

Lighten up Francis , err Frazod ! :D

I understand the concern, it was a great move. If it happens over and over,OK. But now and then when it's a simple mistake, no. It's how I feel, nobody here is perfect .

ROFL

We don't agree on too many topics or comments, but I liked that one.

The fact that you admit posting a political thread in the main forum is a "mistake" probably means that I'm not talking about you, doesn't it? :shake:

I've always resented the formation of the DC forum, but I've also respected the rules and I've never started a political thread in the Lounge since the split.

LMAO You must have studied lying under the same master who taught my ex-wife.

That was posted in DC.

You can't blame me for threads that are hijacked into the political realm.

Yeah. You post a thread about one of the most hated, divisive pricks ever to serve in elective office, declared him a board favorite, and then you were SHOCKED! SHOCKED I TELL YOU!!!!!! that anybody took offense.

Ah, the smell of bullshit takes me back to the days of my youth spent on my grandparents' farm. :)

you can't possibly of typed that with a straight face.

ROFL

I don't know. He may be that good. :D

To be a good liar you have to convince yourself before you can convince anyone else.

Jerry, it's not a lie if *you* believe it.

I apologize for spreading that filth in the main forum. I'll be more responsible in the future.

If you're talking about my Cheney prayer thread, I didn't do anything but say positive things about a sick man, including recognizing the results of an official ChiefsPlanet poll (at least until the thread was played out here and moved to DC where a second, more political, life was breathed into it).

Your inability to distinguish between political threads and clearly acceptable NFT threads is one of the reasons why a more formal rule like the one you've proposed is a bad idea. You'd constantly be whining about how the mods were failing to protect you from your own inability to avoid clicking on certain threads if you had a published rule to wave around. Hell, you're regularly whining about it anyway.

I think DaFace and the rest of the grownups already have this under control, Fraz. Go ahead and put your toy badge back in your pocket and run along now, whippersnapper. ;)

You started a Cheney prayer thread in the Lounge? Why was he dead or dying? And are you crazy? :)

He had a heart attack last week. I posted a prayer thread asking people to send a few kind thoughts in the direction of the man recognized by ChiefsPlanet as the best VP in history in an official Rain Man certified poll. Some posted positive thoughts, some who apparently had nothing positive to say graciously chose not to say anything at all, and others, like Fraz and Laz weren't able to contain themselves.

Thankfully, the power of ChiefsPlanet was once again in evidence as VP Cheney pulled through and is expected to recover completely. :thumb:

Exhibit A: I posted a quite appropriate picture of a scantily clad female (I believe she's Jenna Jameson but could be wrong) accompanied by a giant birthday cake in the "Happy Birthday Laz" thread today and you immediately responded with a (harmless) political comment. Nothing about my post even hinted at politics but you couldn't help yourself. It's certainly harmless AFAIC, but it's more political than I get out here. Check it out:

I know you put a lot of thought into this latest blast of lying bullshit, but unfortunately it's probably only worked on about 27% of the people who read it.

You may be the Lord of the Flies over in DC, but here you're just another extremist that the normal folks really don't want to know about. And I certainly had nothing to do with the lopsided vote results, toy badge notwithstanding.

Perhaps some Preparation H will soothe your butthurt.

censorship..the cause.
chiesfplanet..the effect.

Perhaps you'd be good enough to explain how posting a political thread in DC instead of the main forum is a violation of your Constitutional rights.

I'll wait.

This poll should have went away with it also....

nice strawman.

but as usual, others continue to "violate" your delicate sensibilites.

That's very funny and I actually like frazod and patty.

Nice passive aggressive deflection.

This was a public poll. You going to go cry at the other 46 people who voted yes, or just me?

Oops, sorry. 47.

you responded to my post with a paasive aggressive deflection, hypocrit.

as someone said earlier, if it's blatant, then so be whatever the mods decide.


..the fact remains that this board was created due to people like denise crying to the admin of the Star board..