Posting Political/Religious Threads in the Main Forum

[Frazod]

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.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by frazod

Straw man indeed. Oh, you're so repressed, Stevie. How do you bear it?

This isn't censorship. Becky didn't steal Dole's login and delete patteeu's thread. Really. BTW, I was here at the beginning too, so spare me your horseshit ChiefsPlanet history lesson. These threads are just getting moved where they belong. Separate but equal may not have worked in the South, but it works just fine in cyberspace. Nobody is telling any of what you can or can't post. It's just a matter of keeping it in the proper forum - the forum that was specifically created for it at the urging of the vast majority of the BB members.

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.

[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by frazod

Don't make me come down there.

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

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by patteeu

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.

Your tears are just as tasty as always.

Originally Posted by patteeu

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.

Votes? I knew it!

MODS! Please move this to the political forum.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by frazod

I'd say I've made my point, unless you have some patteeumatical equation that can prove that 30% somehow beats 70%.

Feel free to see about getting this relocated anywhere you want, although I guess we'll have to get it removed from your ass first.

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.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by patteeu

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.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by frazod

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

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

[jAZ]

Originally Posted by patteeu

You don't even address the biggest issue here. The biggest issue is the gray area between news/current events and politics and the way that line has a tendency to shift depending on who the poster is. As someone pointed out early on, this thread could be considered political, but since Frazod posted it, he's not available to whine about it.

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.

[jAZ]

Originally Posted by patteeu

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.

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.

[luv]

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.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by luv

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.

[jAZ]

Originally Posted by luv

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.

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.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

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

[Brock]

Originally Posted by luv

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.

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

[doomy3]

Originally Posted by Brock

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.