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Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 15:44
by smoth
I understand the need to discuss certain things when they are project related.
However, ALL of the political discussions are as follows..
Troll post
knee jerk reaction from politically sensitive people
a few replies wanting to talk about it sensibly
more tinfoil hat bullshit
troll feeds thread
people look stupid with more extreme views.
and so on.
Politics have no place on a development forum. 100% of the time political discussion will result in many people becoming offended. It has always been considered impolite discussion and frankly it really doesn't have a place here.
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 16:02
by JohannesH
I dont see how its any worse than any other subject not related to Spring?
Some people actually enjoy that kind of politics talk (or why else would they be writing).
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 16:02
by BaNa
break out the whaaaaaaaaaambulance
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 17:04
by Regret
!vote n
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 17:16
by aegis
smoth wrote:Troll post
knee jerk reaction from sensitive people
a few replies wanting to talk about it sensibly
more tinfoil hat bullshit
troll feeds thread
people look stupid with more extreme views.
and so on.
that can happen to most discussions :/
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 17:20
by smoth
political discussions are especially fervent.
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 18:36
by zwzsg
I liked TAU's way of shoving all the US vs World flamewar threads into their own special subforum.
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 19:17
by AF
This thread holds the same fate <subsitute forum usernames accordingly>
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 20:51
by Gota
id say this forum thread shares a it's fate with a few others indeed.

Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 21:49
by AF
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 22 Jan 2010, 21:58
by Jazcash
AF wrote:
This thread holds the same fate <subsitute forum usernames accordingly>
I started at Forb and when I got to Trade I was officially lmao.
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 23 Jan 2010, 00:05
by MidKnight
zwzsg wrote:I liked TAU's way of shoving all the US vs World flamewar threads into their own special subforum.
+1
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 23 Jan 2010, 04:13
by Caydr
Obama is a racist.
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 23 Jan 2010, 04:21
by SinbadEV
/me is sad he was left out of the chart... "SinbadEV posts something everyone ignores completely."... I need to start posting more again.
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 23 Jan 2010, 04:44
by Neddie
Or playing.
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 23 Jan 2010, 05:12
by KingRaptor
Banning potentially meaningful discussion outright is pretty excessive, but I think the moderation should keep political threads on an especially short leash.
EDIT: Though looking at the last political thread here makes me want to agree with smoth :/
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 23 Jan 2010, 05:19
by Das Bruce
There are other places to discuss such things.
+1 banstick.
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 24 Jan 2010, 02:19
by Google_Frog
I like the idea of an offtopic subforum that everyone can ignore.
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 24 Jan 2010, 06:56
by hunterw
smoth wrote:
Troll post
knee jerk reaction from sensitive people
a few replies wanting to talk about it sensibly
more tinfoil hat bullshit
troll feeds thread
people look stupid with more extreme views.
and so on.
i think you're asking to delete the entire forums
Re: Please disallow political discussion on this site.
Posted: 24 Jan 2010, 06:58
by hunterw
god damnit all the good jokes already hapepned my low effort one needed to be like post 2-6