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Originally Posted by Freiwillige
While I agree that it becomes a bit much with the Obama threads, you have to understand that he is the most divisive president I have ever know and as he charges in uncharted directions people are gonna respond both for or against.
These topics while many are spamming repeats (Agreed), many are just as valid as they discuss new policy's, Power struggles and the future of this great nation. Now I am honestly not sure of the point you were trying to make, I mean in the forum world I know you well enough to know your a level headed guy and quite likable and I am sure you were just trying to make a point. I just hope that point is not to stifle any legitimate discussion about our prez and his policy's.
Although knowing you I don't think that is the case. I just feel like I missed something....Typical me confused as normal.
Anyway I like the job you do and I like that you seem to stay fair and balanced most of the time<---You are human after all  |
No, I don't want to stifle anyone's expression. I agree that Obama is divisive, and so was Bush 43. My approach to them would be the same; create a master Obama thread for all of the discussion. Hell, even sticky it. This way, the people that want to talk politics get what they want, and the people that don't want to wade through all of those individual threads get what they want. I know that this may not be organized enough to make some happy, but let us face it; political discourse is less Napoleonic warfare and more bar room brawl. Neal or Neon can make the thread easily, but what is needed is the members to go along with it. There were a bunch of threads where this came up recently, so I decided to illustrate it in this manner.
In terms of Neal, if I were him and one of my moderators had done this, I'd yank that 'best of' badge off his profile, revoke his moderator status and brig him for 10 days. I'd deserve that, I wouldn't say anything nasty about him for doing it, and I hope that no one else would either. Fair is fair. I just thought that this was an important point and issue for the community, and sometimes personal status is outweighed by the greater good of all.