topic Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned in Community Spirit

If POLITICAL threads were banned

nero_bolt — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:28:06 GMT

If POLITICAL threads were banned from CS what would you all talk about?

Cats, dogs, knitting, cooking, the latest boring reality show? WHAT

Would these boards revert to fluffy threads? Mind you the fluffy touchy feely threads can get rather agro as well.

So if the political threads get banned what would the mob then go after and say.. WE DONT LIKE threads about cats or dogs or cooking etc and we want to ban these threads as well..

Where would their banning stop

So what would these forums be like with no political threads...... all touchy feely and fluffy?

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

j*oono — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:31:24 GMT

Yes. All of the above 😄

Personally I don't really care anymore whether the political threads have their own board. I don't open most of them. Some I do but not the spam ones.

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

lakeland27 — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:33:46 GMT

perhaps it would be better if you didn;t constantly spam with newsltd articles. a person can find that tripe themselves if so inclined, why not try writing up the posts yourself ?

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

sookie-snackhouse — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:40:55 GMT

They don't need to be banned,maybe they need their own spot somewhere.

If i want to read whinging about FVF i go to Selling

If i want to read whinging about feedback & the time it takes to receive an item,i go to Buying

If i want to see Caturday & Fursday(& yes i really do want to see that) i come to here.

Simples.

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

the_great_she_elephant — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:41:11 GMT

Has anyone suggested political threads should be banned?

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

lakeland27 — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:43:45 GMT

i dont think so.

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

icyfroth — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:46:44 GMT

@nero_wulf wrote:
If POLITICAL threads were banned from CS what would you all talk about?

Cats, dogs, knitting, cooking, the latest boring reality show? WHAT

Would these boards revert to fluffy threads? Mind you the fluffy touchy feely threads can get rather agro as well.

So if the political threads get banned what would the mob then go after and say.. WE DONT LIKE threads about cats or dogs or cooking etc and we want to ban these threads as well..

Where would their banning stop

So what would these forums be like with no political threads...... all touchy feely and fluffy?

that's the trouble isn't it? if all the ppl that like to pontificate political went off to another board the pool of contributors here would become very small.

yet if we could chase the fun & gamers off to another board by common consensus i don't see why the politickers should't get the same privilege.

either that or bring fun & games back here and widen the pool of contributors.

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

izabsmiling — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:47:36 GMT

I'd say Good Morning

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

izabsmiling — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:49:09 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Has anyone suggested political threads should be banned?

If they are given their own board and not permitted here.

They would be banned here aka off topic/reportable.

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

fiestas*girl — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:49:27 GMT

if political threads were banned, wanna be pollies would go back to doing what they do best, selling goldfish for example

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

j*oono — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:51:06 GMT

I think there are some threads on fun and games that really belong here. Like the chuckle store. I love that thread.

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

freakiness — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:51:56 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
yet if we could chase the fun & gamers off to another board by common consensus i don't see why the politickers should't get the same privilege.

either that or bring fun & games back here and widen the pool of contributors.

Were the fun and games chased off or was it just a random rule thought up by the mod management at some stage?

It puzzled me at the time why they went and it still does. I never go looking for the special funa nd game thread although I did participate sometimes before they disappeared. I wouldn't mind them coming back here at all.

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

cherry*135 — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:55:09 GMT

General comment, replied to last poster

Fun & Games are something to play along in, not topics for discussion.

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

purple_haize — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:56:37 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Has anyone suggested political threads should be banned?

No one mentioned banning the threads, dont know where that came from

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

cherry*135 — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:57:59 GMT

if all the ppl that like to pontificate political went off to another board the pool of contributors here would become very small.

Not true, there are far more non-political posters here than those who start and contribute in the political threads.

The very small pool of political posters start more threads (political) though.

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

spotweldersfriend — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:57:13 GMT

Plenty to talk about,nero.Let's see a discussion on the Reformation or the De Stjil art movement.I'm a wiz on the works of Piet Mondrian 🙂

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

izabsmiling — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:57:49 GMT

The fun and games threads used to moved too quick for here and block proper 'discussion' threads

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

joz*garage — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:58:24 GMT

@freakiness wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:
yet if we could chase the fun & gamers off to another board by common consensus i don't see why the politickers should't get the same privilege.

either that or bring fun & games back here and widen the pool of contributors.
Were the fun and games chased off or was it just a random rule thought up by the mod management at some stage?

It puzzled me at the time why they went and it still does. I never go looking for the special funa nd game thread although I did participate sometimes before they disappeared. I wouldn't mind them coming back here at all.

agreed, i use to enjoy paticipating on game threads when they were on cs, you didn't have to click another board or open another tab.

other ebay sites, example uk and us have separate games boards, i reckon au simply followed suit

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

cherry*135 — Tue, 13 May 2014 10:01:50 GMT

A political sub board wouldn't have much of an 'audience' either.

As iza mentioned, the fun and game threads were fast moving, lots of them ended up at the top of page 1, so you had to scroll down past them all the time to find the general discussion threads.

When there was only 1 or 2 of them it wasn't a problem but more and more got started.

Re: If POLITICAL threads were banned

freakiness — Tue, 13 May 2014 10:04:13 GMT

is banished a better word for it? 😄