Politics board closed

[greenlantern]

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/73824/

Is this a good idea? I know people often get into pissing matches, but does this mean politics aren't allowed to be discussed? I think it's best for the politics board kept all that contained in its own place. Chances are it will just spill over into other boards.

What do you think?

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Yeah, I sort of liked its Land-Of-Misfit-Toys isolation.

 

[DanOregon]

Kinda like Fight Club.

It's not like there wasn't goonish behavior on the boards before the politics board was created.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

No politics talk allowed. Too many ****sticks couldn't find even the smallest ****ing shred of deceny to run their points through first.

For a while I was the last guy defending that ****ing place, but the last couple of weeks even I couldn't do that. Fact is, until people stop coming online and thinking they can just be assholes about everything, it'll probably stay that way.

Honestly, that place is ****ing embarassing to this board.

 

[Starman]

Just delete the whole board, and if anybody mentions politics -- AT ALL -- on any of the other boards, whack the post immediately.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Well, bollocks.

I was just about to register under a new name so I could post on the politics board.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

The place was Darwin's waiting room, from day one.

Colonized by a goon squad of wannabe Deputy Dawgs who run only in packs, and then tug on mommy's petticoats when they got play in return that they thought too rough.

 

[forever_town]

I previously ran a board where there were two subjects explicity prohibited. Those subjects were politics and religion.

Had those subjects been allowed, the moderation staff would have been extremely busy. They were too busy as it was.

 

[RickStain]

It's probably a good call.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I would much rather prefer to keep the politics board, only because I don't read it and I don't miss the crap on the regular board.

 

[Magic In The Night]

I miss the politics board already. Sure there were people behaving badly but you're going to get that whether the subject is Barack Obama, George W. Bush or Mother Teresa. I really don't understand how people can get so upset about things written on an anonymous message board. Most of the time, you don't know these people and probably wouldn't drink a beer with them if you did. People need to get a grip. And understand that the trolls are trying to yank their chains. It appears they succeeded. Btw, anyone know what sent it over the top?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Another message board I go to just suspended it's politics board for the weekend.

I wouldn't even have known if there were no announcement. I always go to view threads since last visited, so it's just a list of posts. No clue where they are posted.

 

[mustangj17]

I don't want to see the political threads on other boards. The politics board was the best thing to happen to sports/news because I didn't have to skip over those threads.

 

[Boom_70]

I think the networks should take this tact and shut down their cable outlets.

 

[Starman]

I don't want to see the political threads on other boards. The politics board was the best thing to happen to sports/news because I didn't have to skip over those threads.

There shouldn't be any. Any threads involving politicians, political commentators, government actions -- poof.

We'll talk about other things, or find other boards.

 

[mustangj17]

I don't want to see the political threads on other boards. The politics board was the best thing to happen to sports/news because I didn't have to skip over those threads.

There shouldn't be any. Any threads involving politicians, political commentators, government actions -- poof.

We'll talk about other things, or find other boards.

As long as we don't have to talk about the Steelers...

 

[Moderator1]

I don't want to see the political threads on other boards. The politics board was the best thing to happen to sports/news because I didn't have to skip over those threads.

You won't have to skip over anything. SJ is now a politics free zone. Those who want to talk politics have plenty of other options on the Web. This is no longer one of them.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I don't want to see the political threads on other boards. The politics board was the best thing to happen to sports/news because I didn't have to skip over those threads.

There shouldn't be any. Any threads involving politicians, political commentators, government actions -- poof.

We'll talk about other things, or find other boards.

As long as we don't have to talk about the Steelers...

You had me .. then you lost me.

 

[andyouare?]

Sorry for posting that naked picture of Margaret Thatcher Sunday night. I thought it would be funny. My bad.

 

[AMacIsaac]

Does that include Canadian politics?