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Who gets a thrill reading all the

esseco46 — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 04:46:49 GMT

Political threads?

I think they are annoying and spam for the relevant policital parties.

Just my opinion.

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

donnashuggy — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 04:58:52 GMT

I don't open more than about 20 % of threads, unless they are of political or comical interest. I don't know if the threads that I don't read are annoying or not but this political thread is a bit boring as there have been heaps of these. I shouldn't have opened it but since I have you can have my opinion lol

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

just_me_karen — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:01:02 GMT

I don't get a "thrill" from reading them, but I do enjoy reading different opinions. They can be funny when people are so hooked on their politics of choice that they twist events... for example, they rant and rave when one politician lies, but justify or ignore when another does it. Something about politics seems to warp some people's sense of reality IMO.

Every person's opinion is right, for them.

I'd rather read a political thread than one about the latest court case, mothering issues or household cleaning lol

If you don't like political threads, there are thousands of others to choose from...find a topic that interests you and bump it with your comment.

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

izabsmiling — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:06:09 GMT

@esseco46 wrote:
Political threads?
I think they are annoying and spam for the relevant policital parties.

Just my opinion.

D

You weren't around in the past few years ?

The campaigning has gotten results.

The consequences/fall out from that will be discussed .

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

i-need-a-martini — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:11:30 GMT

What Karen said.

Besides, other than the occasionally post every few months you aren't exactly around much. So it seems a waste to use the board to post a complaint about a topic when you haven't (as far as I can see) ever started a thread about any OTHER topic. That makes no sense.

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

joz*garage — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:16:54 GMT

yes i think ive rolled my eyes more.. then on any other topic (i even cringe)

but i 'spose contributers of political topics have rolled their eyes on some of my topics as well

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

freddie*rooster — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 06:00:41 GMT

Me!!

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

esseco46 — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:26:12 GMT

It doesn't matter that I haven't posted much on the forums - I can read and enjoy what I read but I am tired of reading all the subject headings about politics just to get to something I might like to read.

I am not having a "go" at anyone, or complaining as someone pointed out, I put my opinion forward just like the rest.

There has to be a whole world of more interesting stuff to write about than politics (again, just my opinion) and having said that not one post on here will have any affect on the politicians and what they do or don't do.

I am now cross with myself for even writing the original post, no malice was intended.

Let's call it quits and move on, please.

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

icyfroth — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:27:22 GMT

@esseco46 wrote:
Political threads?
I think they are annoying and spam for the relevant policital parties.

Just my opinion.

D

Complain to the mods. We've asked for a seperate Politics Board, but there's been no response.

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

i-need-a-martini — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:28:40 GMT

@esseco46 wrote:

There has to be a whole world of more interesting stuff to write about than politics (again, just my opinion) and having said that not one post on here will have any affect on the politicians and what they do or don't do.

Then post something else.

There actually aren't that many politica threads these days in comparison to 6 months ago. But on the other hand there isn't much else interesting being posted so they tend to stay at the top.

But, seriously, post something else.

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

icyfroth — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:48:04 GMT

@i-need-a-martini wrote:
@esseco46 wrote:

There has to be a whole world of more interesting stuff to write about than politics (again, just my opinion) and having said that not one post on here will have any affect on the politicians and what they do or don't do.

Then post something else.

There actually aren't that many politica threads these days in comparison to 6 months ago. But on the other hand there isn't much else interesting being posted so they tend to stay at the top.

But, seriously, post something else.

yeah and then watch how quickly it gets bumped down to the bottom by any number of new political threads on the same subject.

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

i-need-a-martini — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:59:50 GMT

So what icy? I notice you post lots of stuff that isn't political. So do I. We get some discussion on them and then they disappear. No big deal. If more people did the same then the boards wouldn't be dominated by political threads.

I don't actually think there are that many political threads at the moment. And at least most are real discussion and debate with decent opinions and somewhat decent media. Unlike what we had to put up with 6-12months ago. Now that WAS spam.

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

icyfroth — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 06:08:45 GMT

@i-need-a-martini wrote:
So what icy? I notice you post lots of stuff that isn't political. So do I. We get some discussion on them and then they disappear. No big deal. If more people did the same then the boards wouldn't be dominated by political threads.

I don't actually think there are that many political threads at the moment. And at least most are real discussion and debate with decent opinions and somewhat decent media. Unlike what we had to put up with 6-12months ago. Now that WAS spam.

No big deal 'tini, except that a casual visitor would come here at any given time looking to read a bit of lighthearted general stuff and all they see is political thread after political thread and back out quick smart.

I've noticed that most people participating in or starting the political threads don't post on any other topic other than politics.

If this keeps up CS will be THE political board because no other topic will be entertained for discussion.

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

polksaladallie — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 06:27:40 GMT

Last QandA tonight. Not a bad panel, except that annoying Tara Moss.

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

esseco46 — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 06:29:23 GMT

Icy,

What you said below is what partly motiviated my original post. I am so over politics in general, in fact I hate the whole shebang.

"I've noticed that most people participating in or starting the political threads don't post on any other topic other than politics.

If this keeps up CS will be THE political board because no other topic will be entertained for discussion".

D:womanindifferent:

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

freshwater-2 — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 07:41:54 GMT

There are some regular posters who start political threads that I don’t bother reading because they are usually so predictable and repetitive and often just a cut and paste..

What annoys me is the personal (and often insulting) attacks on those who do not share the same view. They attack the person instead of the argument.

Perhaps they feel that a personal putdown strengthens their own argument. Well IMO it actually lessens their credibility, whether posters, columnists, shock jocks.........

However, there are some reasonable politcal posters with whom I do not agree, but I do read and think about their comments.

Unfortunately these are few, and far between.

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

***super_nova*** — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:01:19 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:

yeah and then watch how quickly it gets bumped down to the bottom by any number of new political threads on the same subject.

If political topics keep getting bumped up that means that there are many more people interested in politics than the other topics. It really is very democratic. I think there are many extremely boring topics posted here, but that is fine with me, I just do not bother reading them.

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

joz*garage — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:03:01 GMT

well this certainly is a thrilling channel, isnt it?

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

icyfroth — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:09:34 GMT

@***super_nova*** wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:

yeah and then watch how quickly it gets bumped down to the bottom by any number of new political threads on the same subject.
If political topics keep getting bumped up that means that there are many more people interested in politics than the other topics. It really is very democratic. I think there are many extremely boring topics posted here, but that is fine with me, I just do not bother reading them.

Which only proves that there should be a separate political disussion board for those that like to exclusively discuss politics.

It galls me to think the fun and games threads were moved to a separate board because ppl were sick of the games threads dominating CS or Chinwag or whatever it was. Now we've reached a similar situation with political discussions dominating the boards, yet the mods let it go!

Re: Who gets a thrill reading all the

rabbitearbandicoot — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:10:23 GMT

well .... what about a good Religious thread?

Bob .... what about a discussion on abiogenesis/biopoiesis V evolution - we haven't had one of those for ages.