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nero_bolt · ‎13-05-2014

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?

j*oono · ‎13-05-2014

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

Joono

freakiness · ‎13-05-2014

@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.

cherry*135 · ‎13-05-2014

General comment, replied to last poster

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

purple_haize · ‎13-05-2014

@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

cherry*135 · ‎13-05-2014

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.

spotweldersfriend · ‎13-05-2014

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 🙂

izabsmiling · ‎13-05-2014

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

joz*garage · ‎13-05-2014

@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

Signatures suck.

cherry*135 · ‎13-05-2014

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.

freakiness · ‎13-05-2014

is banished a better word for it? 😄