Re: O T : Mon Oct 02, 2017 9:12 am  

If posters want a political debate simply start a thread on the subject.

[Wildthing]

Re: O T : Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:10 am  

bren2k wrote:

It is a site policy, or just a mod policy, to stifle political debates? It seems churlish to prevent people having the conversation - what harm can it do?!

2 Reasons;

1 - This is an RL Forum - you can chat about Politics in the Sin Bin if you so wish.
2 - We don't have the Mods (or time) on here to Moderate political debates as invariably they descend into slagging machines -
and need more attention.

That's basically why.

Re: O T : Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:28 am  

Wildthing wrote:

2 - We don't have the Mods (or time) on here to Moderate political debates as invariably they descend into slagging machines

Then don't bother? It's not essential to sanitise every thread when people don't agree - and the sky won't fall in if people argue about politics.

[PopTart]

Re: O T : Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:35 am  

bren2k wrote:

It is a site policy, or just a mod policy, to stifle political debates? It seems churlish to prevent people having the conversation - what harm can it do?!

Site policy is to not derail a thread.
So if it strays away from what was originally posted I try to bring it back.
Continual derailing of threads is a warning/banning offence for the site. I tend not to do that as mostly it isn't intentional.

Political debate I find interesting and I've no problem with it on its own thread.
The problem is when it starts to get abusive I have to stop it, which is a shame.
The 'this used to be a free country' comments are usually posted after someone has posted something offensive.....and unfortunately we are not free to do that on here.

I'll always consìder your point if you think I've been too heavy handed.

[Wildthing]

Re: O T : Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:41 am  

bren2k wrote:

Then don't bother? It's not essential to sanitise every thread when people don't agree - and the sky won't fall in if people argue about politics.

So in essence don't moderate certain threads? ... not possible and people would soon be up in arms if we didn't.
No win situation for us really.

Plus we have certain guidelines to follow that are site wide.

[PopTart]

Re: O T : Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:51 am  

Wildthing wrote:

So in essence don't moderate certain threads? ... not possible and people would soon be up in arms if we didn't.
No win situation for us really.

Plus we have certain guidelines to follow that are site wide.

Lol. How many times do we get people complaining about letting people rant on the same thread that we get people moaning about the mods being too restrictive Wildthing.
As you say it's a no win situation.....so we just follow policy as pragmatically as possible.

[Wildthing]

Re: O T : Wed Oct 04, 2017 9:20 am  

PopTart wrote:

Lol. How many times do we get people complaining about letting people rant on the same thread that we get people moaning about the mods being too restrictive Wildthing.
As you say it's a no win situation.....so we just follow policy as pragmatically as possible.

Yep

Can't please everyone.

Re: O T : Wed Oct 04, 2017 9:23 am  

Can you two stop derailing this thread please - PM's are available for this kind of chat!

Re: O T : Wed Oct 04, 2017 9:26 am  

I grew up in a family where my dad was working class and very far left and my mum came from a middle class conservative family, we agreed as a family not talk about politics as it always ended in bad feeling

[PopTart]

Re: O T : Wed Oct 04, 2017 9:33 am  

bren2k wrote:

Can you two stop derailing this thread please - PM's are available for this kind of chat!

Touche