I agree. I gave up on political threads here when I got called names after daring to point out something one ‘side’ did, despite my claim of no party affiliation (registered independent). Then I remembered something I was once told – you can’t argue with a zealot - a fanatical partisan. And we have people on both sides of the aisle here.
Blaming the mods is easy. The mods always get ragged for locking stuff, and get ragged for not locking stuff, and get ragged for too many rules, and get ragged for not enough rules, oft by the same folks. The subtle hypocrisy can make it hard to get a sense of things sometimes. So as a group we discuss things like this, instead of making rash decisions. I was for killing political threads because they never end well – zealots are impolite arguers. But we eventually decided to "see if they can behave without resorting to childish behavior". We now see how that came out, given 20/20 hindsight.
How about this - going forward, we allow political threads as long as they remain civil, because we still feel there are some people here who act like adults. But if anyone resorts to name calling or personal attacks, the thread gets locked ASAP and the offenders earn a vacation w/o a warning. And by offender
s I mean the initial instigator and any secondary responders. You don’t have to ‘fight back’. Instead of getting your panties in a left or right handed twist, just use the report post button and let the mods deal with it.
What do you think of that?
