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Originally Posted by dgg9 This is, of course, nonsense. ALL political forums of ALL Internet boards are adversarial. The tone is always combative. Cordiality and restraint are almost never in evidence. Certainly the Politics forum of DF is no different. I'm hard pressed to find a single thread without outright disdain of one camp for the other. The hostility goes both ways and is constant.
And since you are an active poster, you are part of this. Don't pretend to detachment and bland courtesy that you yourself have not shown.
These are the facts of every political forum: people get angry at each other. Constant disrespect is a given. And it's always a mistake for moderators to join in, as they are no better than anyone else, and indeed worse, since inevitably they can't resist the urge to use their status to give threats. |
Quite simply, the politics forum of DF should be different. While there is confrontation, discussion is possible with the majority of people who frequent the politics forum. In fact, discussion was rewarding. You however, and RedHawk and Lawson / JLB are interested in nothing but trolling. You know this, I know this, everyone knows this (although at one point I thought perhaps you would discuss things reasonably, I was however worried that when Lawson / JLB and RedHawk started getting banned, you'd react and become a troll just as bad, apparantly I was right, although I'm not sure if you just use each others accounts either).
So what do we have?, we have a majority who can discuss things with each other and enjoy it, and we have a small minority of three or more members who are just trolls who claim to be silly ages and make preposterous claims which are obviously and provably untrue (especially Lawson / JLB).
The simple solution would be to work for the majority and ban the smallest number of people to solve the problem.
Now, watch this, I think that Dyshade has made a mistake in what he is doing now, I think he should have banned you lot long long ago. The longer he leaves it, the more out of proportion the problem will become in the eyes of DF users. Now, Dyshade (if he isn't in a particularly silly mood) won't say that view is a non-sequitur, or leftist because he disagrees with it, he'll put forward his view and then we'll discuss the common ground we have.
There is no common ground with yourself and cohorts, because you don't want there to be any, it makes trolling more difficult (not that your actually that good a troll, i could do way better, the fact that its effective is more due to Dyshades kindness than your own ability).
Before I forget, non sequitur!