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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I posted that by accident. I was composing a much longer post, then decided to back out of it altogether. When I saw I had accidentally posted it anyway I deleted it, but apparently too late. Since you quoted it before I could delete it, I'll continue.
If we know where every thread of this nature is going to go, then should we not lock every one of them after the first post? That might seem to make sense, but then where do you draw the line? Should he really be brigged, or even banned? Why. I advocate infractions for abusive language and name-calling, even if it's against a non-member, such as a public figure. For topic spamming? Bubble head starts a huge number of threads. Most of them are on the SH4 forums and about the game. In that context he is consistently helpful. He doesn't post political threads in GT as often as it seems. His last one was three weeks ago. The previous one was about three weeks before that. Of course it could be argued that one such thread should have been where the line was drawn, but unless someone breaks an actual rule it's hard to justify that line.
His political beliefs are his own. He needs to learn how to express them in a manner that convinces people to listen to him rather than his current manner, which only convinces people that he's a nutcase. I argue with him a lot because I always have hope that he will finally figure that out some day. More flies with honey than with vinegar and all that.
Threads like this might annoy some, but while they may not serve any real purpose the don't do any real harm either. I've recently heard it proposed that threads like the Joke thread, Four Word Story Game thread and especially the Tories thread are useless and should be closed. Should they? For the most part I feel that way, but for the most part I don't read them, so they don't really affect me.
I don't know what the answers are, and if I believed I did I'd probably be wrong.
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I will admit, his thread generation rate has come down remarkably since Yubbas brig time, a shot across the bows perhaps, but personally I wouldn't brig or ban Bubblehead, whilst his arguments are poorly constructed they are not generally offensive nor any more inflamatory than some other people around here.
I'd consider merging some threads though, such as this one with the Conspiracy theory thread, since they are both about the same level of discussion, and then perhaps pull the conspiracy theories out of the Syrian thread and put that in there too. It might make the Conspiracy thread a bit messy, but it's already pretty messy anyway.
But, like I've said before, I'm not a moderator and I wouldn't make a very good one anyway, I'm too hardline, and the axe would come out a bit too often I suspect. So I defer to those that are, and just pipe up from time to time when frustration overcomes inertia.