Posting Political/Religious Threads in the Main Forum

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Originally Posted by patteeu

Yes, I picked "prayer" because it was a prayer thread. Therefore, according to your "the prefix tells me where to post" standard, I was in good shape.

I don't have a "the prefix tells me where to post" standard. In fact, there can't be a "prefix tells me where to post" standard since anyone could rationalize literally any thread in DC under several literally any post in DC using just a couple of the prefixes in the Lounge.

"News"
"Life"
"Science"
"Money"
"Prayer"
"Weather"

Not to mention the way too easy... "Misc" and "Poop"

Just because you can find a way to rationalize that something is (some Lounge prefix) doesn't mean it's not political.

The standard should be "if it's about public policy, hot button political topics, political news, politicians, religion or religious news" then it should stay in DC.

I'd say that the lone exception (policed by the judgement of the mods) should be major national or local KC news stories. That's a judgement call of the Mods but it's rare.

Dick Cheney going into the hospital for the Nth time isn't a major news story. Neither is Obama getting a clean bill of health.
Praying for Obama to quit smoking or Cheney to get healthy or Biden to shut his mouth aren't exceptions either.

Bush or Cheney or Gore or Clinton or Obama or Biden dying would probably qualify as an exception.
Kerry or McCain or even Palin would be a close call but I'd lean toward major national news.
Emanuel Cleaver dying would definitely qualify as an exception (because it's a major KC story).
Stephanie Tubbs Jones dying wouldn't.