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What are we allowed to talk about?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Oct 17, 2013.

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  1. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Are we allowed to talk about Penn State?
     
    Vombatus, Oct 17, 2013
    #25
  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    It's not that any of us don't want to "allow" political threads, Gehrig.

    It's that there are too many people on here who don't have the ability to discuss politics without it turning into insults and stupidity that drives others away, and way too often spills out all over the rest of the board. Not to mention the posters who are part of the problem, but constantly complain to the moderators of the board about "the other guy." -- clueless that to that guy, THEY are the other guy.

    We tried over and over again to find a way to keep the board open to everything and anything. We gave it how many chances? We've asked people to be cool. We tried to put rules in place. We gave it its own thread. But there are too many posters who are unable to control themselves, and unfortunately several of them are still here and clueless to the fact that they are part of the problem. So it doesn't change.
     
    The Big Ragu, Oct 17, 2013
    #26
  3. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    My two cents is that I am so with the mods on this.

    The usual bunch have zero ability to speak civilly regarding Team Red and Team Blue. It makes for an unappetizing forum to read the rants.

    That it really bugs the Team Red and Blue junkies is a cherry on top.
     
    poindexter, Oct 17, 2013
    #27
  4. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    How many threads over the last 4-5 weeks have been jacked into general bitch sessions about fucking ignorant idiot treasonous destructionist teabaggers?

    If there have been any at all, I must have missed them. Hell, even the thread about "The Shutdown and Me" has stayed pretty much clean of it.

    Yet pretty much every day a half dozen other threads on every other topic under the sun get derailed into snarkfests about the evull socillist mooslim neegro.
     
    Starman, Oct 17, 2013
    #28
  5. Morris816

    Morris816 Member

    When I chimed into that thread, I made a joke in hopes of getting people to lighten up a bit. But if the mods think that's a problem, fine.

    With that said, would it not be worth considering the idea of establishing a separate politics forum and, if any thread gets like that, simply punting it there?

    Because politics is something people like to discuss and, needless to say, it seems one politician in particular gets everybody up in arms.

    ETA: Never mind, I saw what Ragu explained. Fair enough. But if some people can't get the message, then why not take action against the forum poster instead?
     
    Morris816, Oct 17, 2013
    #29
  6. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    For the record, YF and I are cool as the other side of the pillow. We were not actually angry. We were respectfully mutually challenging the other.
     
    Dick Whitman, Oct 17, 2013
    #30
  7. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Thank you for demonstrating what I was talking about -- this is precisely what necessitated that no politics rule -- which we actually hate. You just told everyone that you saw the thread veer toward politics, and you couldn't help yourself. So you came running in and tried to inflame it and get it locked.

    But you're never the problem. It's that other guy who is always responsible.
     
    The Big Ragu, Oct 17, 2013
    #31
  8. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

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    MisterCreosote, Oct 17, 2013
    #32
  9. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Well, I reported it once silently as I usually do, and here came another spate of snarky sniggering anti-Obama posts, darkly hinting that his educational interests have something to do with socillist indoctrination or something. I guess that stuff must be OK.
     
    Starman, Oct 17, 2013
    #33
  10. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Once again, showing that you are, indeed, one of the "other guys." Stop it already.
     
    MileHigh, Oct 17, 2013
    #34
  11. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    It's the Freemasons getting everything locked.
     
    TheSportsPredictor, Oct 17, 2013
    #35
  12. Captain Obvious

    Captain Obvious Guest

    Let's go back to "Dick is full io shit" on who influenced Obama while he was taught law school. Without any proof such influence exists, stating a professor in a department would be influenced by a faculty member in another department is flat-out ignorant of what actually takes place in academia.
     
    Captain Obvious, Oct 17, 2013
    #36
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