This is a repost from a previous political thread. Read it in full if you are tempted to post or respond to a political thread.

I've guess I was talking to myself in the post I made above. Okay, let's try again.

I am not going to setup a dedicated political discussion thread. Those places are like $hit to flies. Go post your political threads on SOME OTHER FORUM and then come back here to hang out and talk about simulations or life in general, but not about anything polical.

I'll say it again: this forum is not for discussing politics. This is a combat simulation website. We discuss combat simulations, tell jokes, post babe pics, and discuss the non-politcal sides of our lives such that they are.

Now...rather than lock, move or delete threads, I was hoping that all of my good friends here could simply ignore these political thread discussions. Apparently, that's not the case, and that just boggles my mind. I can't understand why it's so difficult to grasp this concept: if you don't like political discussions, then don't open the thread. Why I, or anyone else, has to use run in and fiddle with the access settings is a mystery to me when the solution is DON'T READ THE THREAD. Or, if you read something you don't like, just don't comment.

As for political discussions cluttering the forum, one in 20 or 40 or even 200 is hardly clutter. If it were 10 politcal threads per page, then I'd get pissy and start locking and banning.

I'm imploring you guys to rise above this stuff and do me and everyone else a favour:

• FIRST AND FOREMOST: Please do not post political threads. Follow that guideline and all will be solved.
• If a political post appears: Do not respond. Ignore it. I'm asking for you guys to show restraint. If I can ask others to not post the threads in the first place, I'm asking you all not to respond.
• If you guys fail to heed the first two suggestions, and things get out of hand, then send me $1 via my PayPal account and I'll lock the thread. ;)

Okay, forget that last point. Seriously, there's only a few of us guys on this forum so I'm begging you to take the initiative and resist the urge to respond to political threads. That way, I don't have to play referee.

You may be saying, "But that's the forum admin's job---to referee this stuff." Yeah, maybe so, but as any forum moderator can tell you, being the ref takes time and can be a real strain on the the brain.

So stop asking me to lock this thread. Sort this out yourselves and you can start by not posting this stuff in the first place. Second, stop responding to political threads.

I feel like I'm Dr. Evil having a discussion with Scott here...

Here: Play this if you feel like responding to this or any other political thread.



Dr. Evil aka Admin aka TheDude out.

And then I added this:

Making a separate political thread may solve some people's problems, but it doesn't solve mine...I still have to moderate the thread regardless and believe me, politico threads attract all sorts of nutters and I don't want to read all that blather....which you'll make me do if I setup a political thread.

Furthermore, political threads get real scary. People start threatening people and then religion gets thrown into the mix and it's a real goat rope.

Been there, done that.

Life's too short for me to go through that hell again...and I wouldn't put anyone else through it either.

:thumbsup:

With you all the way on this un Doug!

Post a political thread and you run the risk of random, weird, and downright silly replies from a certain member called geg. ;)



Anyone for some lemon jelly slippers?

No thanks, I just walked.

You want $5.00? :o

Jeez, do I have to start watching the politics in my stories?

I know there was something political in one of those . . . .

Hang on . . .

No, I guess Rommel's appointment as the chief of the InterGalactic Patrol wasn't a political statement. :)

I think the regular group here could discuss politics in reasonable fashion, but unfortunately we have a few lurkers who only come out to start trouble, especially when the topic is politics.

So, I have to agree with the rule. I can carry on political discussions with forum members via email -- and that's probably a good place for it.

Besides -- somewhere here Dude says, "It's MY forum, dammit!"

S! to Mr. Admin, our hard-working, oppressed admin guy.

Oops. Is 'oppressed' political?

Jim :thumbsup:

...We're no strangers to sarcasm.

Ya know Jim, I've been meaning to ask what happened to that "Code of Conduct" thingmie you cobbled together. It used to be permantly nailed the front door, but I haven't noticed it here at the new digs.

Maybe it was damaged beyond recognition in the last firestorm?

TQM

YES sirrrr......on the Double :ph43r: :thumbsup: