So it's been a week ...

[dixiehack]

Politics thread, which by number of posts blows away anything else on the site, got locked last Thursday. The primary conflict/grudge match between two posters that seemed to trigger the closure has not cooled down. Instead it has spilled into other threads, more than one of which has also been locked.

Meanwhile, developments in the political world have certainly not stopped because we did.

As the moderators are more than happy to remind less privileged members anytime something like this comes up, it isn't our board, it isn't our decision and we won't be missed. But at the very least, I think we are owed some insight into the plans moving forward so that we can judge for ourselves how much time, if any, is worth devoting to the site.

 

[QYFW]

Seconded.

 

[RickStain]

... so that we can judge for ourselves how much time, if any, is worth devoting to the site.

I mean, the answer to that is always "zero" but if we could help ourselves, we wouldn't be here.

 

[User 149557]

I know this makes me a terrible person, but I actually miss things that happen in the news cycle when the politics thread is shut down here.

 

[Cosmo]

I know this makes me a terrible person, but I actually miss things that happen in the news cycle when the politics thread is shut down here.

Same

 

[JC]

I'd expect the next thread started to be an invitation to a 64 man elimination MMA tournament to see who the board champ is.

 

[CD Boogie]

The politics thread is a sewer. I learn nothing there except people's own hard and fast political opinions. I avoid it as much as possible, but its absence has definitely spilled into other threads, mostly because one dude cant. let.it. ****ing. go.

That's the sole problem. If you don't like what someone has to say, what they have done, what they stand for, guess ****ing what? You can be an adult and ignore them. Put them on ignore. But if you insist on following them and engaging them, because they pissed in your Cheerios and made you feel bad about yourself, then you're a self-flagellating maroon. Seriously, either settle this off the board -- a boxing match -- or cut the ****. It's ****ing old. Really ****ing old. Old.

 

[CD Boogie]

I'd expect the next thread started to be an invitation to a 64 man elimination MMA tournament to see who the board champ is.

Put **** and Typefitter in the play-in game.

 

[LongTimeListener]

@dixiehack What, do you work for Jimmy Kimmel or something?

 

[LongTimeListener]

The politics thread is a sewer. I learn nothing there except people's own hard and fast political opinions. I avoid it as much as possible, but its absence has definitely spilled into other threads, mostly because one dude cant. let.it. ****ing. go.

This is totally untrue. Amid those hard and fast political opinions, we get great links out of it. It's one of the best news feeds out there, truthfully.

 

[outofplace]

All due respect to the mods, this seemed like a case in which the issue should have been addressed with the posters, not by locking the thread. And yes, I'm aware that I've been the poster who was the problem in the past.

 

[TyWebb]

This is totally untrue. Amid those hard and fast political opinions, we get great links out of it. It's one of the best news feeds out there, truthfully.

100 percent. I rarely engage on the Politics thread because I am woefully ill-equipped to keep up with some of the news junkies on it. But I still always tried to stay current with it because it was a great source of info from both sides.

Also, the back-and-forth bitching sometimes reaches hilarious levels.

 

[JC]

All due respect to the mods, this seemed like a case in which the issue should have been addressed with the posters, not by locking the thread. And yes, I'm aware that I've been the poster who was the problem in the past.

 

[CD Boogie]

This is totally untrue. Amid those hard and fast political opinions, we get great links out of it. It's one of the best news feeds out there, truthfully.

I don't have access to Twitter at work, so 99 percent of those posts are blocked for me. No loss. If it's news today, truly, it'll be news tomorrow. I firmly believe this even though I was a journalist for 20 years. A lot of **** is posted on websites, written in newspapers, and taped on air just to fill space and time. That's one of the chief reasons I quit Twitter. I was becoming over-informed about useless, fleeting ****. But hey, at least I knew it first?

 

[TyWebb]

I'll also say that when some big piece of news broke, I always looked forward to seeing the reaction from certain posters on the thread.

Like when the footage of Hillary almost collapsing came out, I couldn't wait to see YF's response. And the guy delivered.

 

[Moderator1]

I was honestly just coming to unlock it before I headed to work. You guys can't help yourselves, can you?

Some of you need to discover life beyond the message board. Plenty of places to talk politics out there.

See you this weekend, maybe. Or maybe QYFW starts a thread and takes another shot at the moderators and we wait a while longer.

Carry on