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View Poll Results: 24-hr Vaca for members that insert politics insults or snark in obv non-pol threads

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  • Yes - good idea.

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  • No - bad idea.

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Thread: Proposal: 24-hr timeout for members that insert politics in Non Pol Threads

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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Neither do I...that's why I wrote "to some people".
    Looks rather like an afterthought to me but fair enough.
    Last edited by RMNIXON; 08-01-2021 at 07:56 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cletus View Post
    You just keep that victim card up your sleeve so you can play it whenever you think it will be useful, eh?

    I think your post was the kind of thing this suggestion was intended to prevent.



    When did Mini Me get picked on by Mods in this Forum?

    Or any other lefties who so often make posts attacking the forum itself rather than OP topics I might add.



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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    That's a great idea about ignoring them, but trolls feed on that too: it's permission to keep going. Both you and cletus have good ideas on this. I say, report a troll post, and we all know what a troll post is, let the mods threadban the poster, and just make THAT the new practice: it'll send a clear message if it's consistent. Simple, a part of rules anyway. Don't over think it.
    No. …ummm…Everyone doesn’t agree on what a troll post is.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    What to do when the OP (and consequently the thread itself) is an example of trolling?
    Just don't post in it. Let it wither and die.
    “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater

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    Some control needs to be placed here.
    Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
    Pick your enemies carefully.






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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    Looks rather like an afterthought to me but fair enough.
    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf
    I do understand that absolutely everything has a political aspect - usually a very partisan one - to some people...
    How is something included in the original sentence/thought an "afterthought"? The entire point of my post was that everything DOESN'T have a political aspect, and that people who try to pretend that things do that clearly don't are misguided and tiresome.

    You didn't read my post carefully enough, jumped on me for saying something I very clearly didn't say, and now you characterize what I DID say, from the very beginning, as looking "rather like an afterthought". What some people won't resort to in order to try to make excuses for their own sloppy thinking and poor reading skills.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    No. …ummm…Everyone doesn’t agree on what a troll post is.
    I doubt anyone does.

    And not all trolling is bad. Someone says something provocative, gets people to look at some topic at a new angle, and fires u a discussion.
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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    I like this idea. I can't tell you how many times I've jumped into an innocuous thread and someone starts turning it political with '...bet Deviants think differently...' or 'trumptards must've done this too..' or things like that. I jump back out. These folks deserve 24 hours - AND IT'S ONLY 24-HOURS.

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    I would oppose this idea.
    When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.“ - Benjamin Franklin.


    “When people get used to preferential treatment equal treatment seems like discrimination.” - Thomas Sowell

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mini Me View Post
    Agreed! Its just another attempt to keep unpopular people off the forum.....like me!
    That applies to all folks with liberal persuasions.
    That’s silly. Nobody takes anything you post seriously because you never have anything relevant or substantive to say.
    When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.“ - Benjamin Franklin.


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