Trolling in political threads: please read

[Paladin]

Religion and politics ... a recipe for a disaster on any forum Ric. ;)

The one thing we all have in common is an interest in football, and the majority support City also, as their first or second club. Regarding everything else, there will be a vast diversity of views and opinions. Experience shows that there is little or no chance of groups or individuals converting those of the opposite opinion. For me, I would rather celebrate what we have in common, than fall out with fellow Blues over other issues.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

It wasn't aimed at you or any specific poster really mate, and the "trolling" thread title is a bit misleading (it's just an old thread I bumped as the message seemed pertinent again). It's a more general issue about the political threads on here. As mentioned before there's far too much goading, point scoring etc, often between the same posters, meaning that those who want to have a sensible discussion are drowned out. When warnings or thread bans are handed out, we get accused of censorship and excessive moderating, but if we take a laissez faire approach then the threads just turn to shit.

I think the "General Politics" thread was no longer working, because it was too broad a topic and besides I'm not really keen on "mega threads". For instance, the other day someone mentioned the commons vote about limiting free school meals, a pretty significant issue which merited more scrutiny, but the next three pages were people calling Corbyn and his supporters terrorist sympathisers and communists, and the point was lost.

I think we should trial having separate threads for specific political issues, and seeing how that goes. No guarantee it will improve things - the onus really has to be on users being a bit more polite and respectful to those with different political opinions - but it's worth at least trying. No one likes to see threads continually pulled. Ultimately it's a City forum, yet 90% of our time is spent moderating political threads rather than football ones.

I agree it does get a bit personal and engrained but when you are feeling a bit low a classic fumble/ chippy boy exchange does bring a chuckle.....

 

[jimharri]

Religion and politics ... a recipe for a disaster on any forum Ric. ;)

Just a typical old firm thread!

 

[everythingchangesbutblue]

Just as many threads are derailed by "celeb posters" trying to be funny tbh.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Just as many threads are derailed by "celeb posters" trying to be funny tbh.

That gets on my tits too.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Just as many threads are derailed by "celeb posters" trying to be funny tbh.

Indeed, a few posters who play to their perceived character. Hard to imagine anyone being like that in real life but suppose it takes allsorts.

 

[BobKowalski]

Whilst the mods/owner have the right to ban who they want and for any reason they see fit I do think the courtesy of a brief explanation would be nice even if it’s ‘You are banned for x weeks for being a raging tit’ :)

Manners cost nothing and all that.

 

[Ric]

Whilst the mods/owner have the right to ban who they want and for any reason they see fit I do think the courtesy of a brief explanation would be nice even if it’s ‘You are banned for x weeks for being a raging tit’ :)

Manners cost nothing and all that.

Yeah, that's fair enough. We'll try to do this as a matter of practice. Equally though, it'd be appreciated if people could make more of an effort to stick to the forum rules so that it doesn't come to bans being handed out.

 

[purplenose]

Just as many threads are derailed by "celeb posters" trying to be funny tbh.

What on earth is a celeb poster?

 

[BobKowalski]

Yeah, that's fair enough. We'll try to do this as a matter of practice. Equally though, it'd be appreciated if people could make more of an effort to stick to the forum rules so that it doesn't come to bans being handed out.

Noted. Sometimes on a thread ban you know why so an explanation isn’t needed but sometimes you can genuinely have no idea so a heads up could be useful and appreciated.