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Political threads/sub-forum
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journolud
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Keep it, visiting it and taking offence are optional. Giving offence should be less so but we’ve probably all been guilty of that
The early consensus seems to be to leave it, which is fine. Happy to go with the majority view.
Next question, I guess, is do we continue the largely hands-off moderation of late, or do we try and restore some order and facilitate more sensible debate? Would involve stepping on a fair few toes though...
Next question, I guess, is do we continue the largely hands-off moderation of late, or do we try and restore some order and facilitate more sensible debate? Would involve stepping on a fair few toes though...
Banned Tosspot
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Only if it's fair.The early consensus seems to be to leave it, which is fine. Happy to go with the majority view.
Next question, I guess, is do we continue the largely hands-off moderation of late, or do we try and restore some order and facilitate more sensible debate? Would involve stepping on a fair few toes though...
PannickAtTheDisco
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things should stay as they are, leave those few to their echo chamber and it keeps upstairs cleaner (when wum accounts and pretend or real Scousers or "Fulham" fans are modded properly). I think the political discussion has seeped too far at times into the normal Covid thread, but by this point most users know where the others stand on these things so it's almost a self-filter and very little registers for shock value.
Perhaps, much like the media thread upstairs should be (if it's modded properly), you have a thread for purely linking to and discussing the facts of social media/breaking news/stats and figures which is more of a daily politics thread which is more tightly modded (i.e. Johnson/Starmer/Abbott is a **** gets deleted and people who post outlandish comments or diatribes without either stating it as opinion or referencing to mainstream legitimate sources - so not random bot accounts or ideological lunatics gets deleted), and then if people want to unleash they can go merrily into the sub-threads and bash each others skulls in with their banality.
But if upstairs tonight is the approach then we might as well put pigeons in charge for what good any suggestions will be.
Perhaps, much like the media thread upstairs should be (if it's modded properly), you have a thread for purely linking to and discussing the facts of social media/breaking news/stats and figures which is more of a daily politics thread which is more tightly modded (i.e. Johnson/Starmer/Abbott is a **** gets deleted and people who post outlandish comments or diatribes without either stating it as opinion or referencing to mainstream legitimate sources - so not random bot accounts or ideological lunatics gets deleted), and then if people want to unleash they can go merrily into the sub-threads and bash each others skulls in with their banality.
But if upstairs tonight is the approach then we might as well put pigeons in charge for what good any suggestions will be.
I like to think they will be, as they always have been.Only if it's fair.
Haha, not like you to complain mate ;)But if upstairs tonight is the approach then we might as well put pigeons in charge for what good any suggestions will be.
PannickAtTheDisco
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Haha, not like you to complain mate ;)
19 reasons to be grumpy these days.
urban genie
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The early consensus seems to be to leave it, which is fine. Happy to go with the majority view.
Next question, I guess, is do we continue the largely hands-off moderation of late, or do we try and restore some order and facilitate more sensible debate? Would involve stepping on a fair few toes though...
Problem with politics is no one can be objective, not even mods imho, the self policing works and all sides or the arguement know each other well enough now to have some kind of level where it calms down.
The only issues are when someome with no interest in debate or arguement and wants to make statements and then wind people up.
As I said recently it has been better, but I also suspect this question comes up about here because when one lot are losing the debate they spend more time reporting posts and moaning it isn't fair.
Indaparkside
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Problem with politics is no one can be objective, not even mods imho, the self policing works and all sides or the arguement know each other well enough now to have some kind of level where it calms down.
The only issues are when someome with no interest in debate or arguement and wants to make statements and then wind people up.
As I said recently it has been better, but I also suspect this question comes up about here because when one lot are losing the debate they spend more time reporting posts and moaning it isn't fair.
Especially the tories