Question on ban announcements

[cnerd123]

Am gonna miss Shri.

On the bright side, we won't have to play mafia with him again for a while

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Am gonna miss Shri.

he's a **** but he's our ****

 

[OverratedSanity]

Nah, those threads would still exist, they're just centralised now. If anything, it makes it easier to avoid the mud slinging if you're not up for it. That said, curiosity usually takes over and I take a gander.

I'm sure that was the thinking behind it. I don't think it's worked the way it was intended.

 

[trundler]

You absolutely vile ****s. You made me take a look at the politics subbie and a perfectly decent day has been ruined.

 

[Howe_zat]

The politics subforum was a mistake

Nah, those threads would still exist, they're just centralised now. If anything, it makes it easier to avoid the mud slinging if you're not up for it. That said, curiosity usually takes over and I take a gander.

Agree, political discussion was taking over the forum. It's pretty bad now, but that's just the way the culture of the place has gone.

I didn't used to feel judged and mocked by respected members on CW, I do now. Political based jibes and niggles are everywhere whether you're in the political forum or not, and it isn't good natured.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

It's just in our psyche, politics. We live by it, and it's consumes us.
It's a dangerous animal.

Shri will be missed.

 

[honestbharani]

Agree, political discussion was taking over the forum. It's pretty bad now, but that's just the way the culture of the place has gone.

I didn't used to feel judged and mocked by respected members on CW, I do now. Political based jibes and niggles are everywhere whether you're in the political forum or not, and it isn't good natured.

I had ventured a couple of times before but I have mostly given up because politics across the world has descended to the kind of jingoistic "my team vs your team" BS that even sports discussions seem to be better. My view on Indian politics is that it reflects how the society itself has degenerated. Politicians don't come out of nowhere, they are a product of the society and for every bad politcian you see across the world, it is just a reflection of the dropping standards of those societies, mine included. So I just don't see any reason to debate who is less bad out of two or a few really bad politicians.

On another note, I have long felt CW has descended to those levels since 2015 or so as well. I dunno if banning all political discussion will help in anyway either as, having had this forum, and members understanding where each other stands with respect to the political scene, it will just find its way into other discussions again.

 

[Gnske]

Agree, political discussion was taking over the forum. It's pretty bad now, but that's just the way the culture of the place has gone.

I didn't used to feel judged and mocked by respected members on CW, I do now. Political based jibes and niggles are everywhere whether you're in the political forum or not, and it isn't good natured.

Well that's life isn't it, you jam your leg in a crocodile's mouth how are you to know you're going to get bit?

 

[Spark]

Would people appreciate a hard and fast "no politics or religion outside the politics subforum" rule? Would that even work? I know other forums have this kind of rule and it can work well in some circumstances.

One of those circumstances is that people have to actually follow the spirit, not just the letter, of the rule, and not smuggle in coded jokes and trolls that are not technically, literally about politics but are clearly about politics once context is taken into account.

 

[GIMH]

I won't name someone who isn't here to defend himself but I can recall one poster bringing politics into everything to attack someone, 'oh well what would you know, you're xxxx' and to me that sucks

But there are relevant links of politics into everything so a blanket ban to me doesn't work. But if it's brought up without relevance or context I would suggest you already have the rules to deal with that.

 

[Gnske]

Can libertarianism jokes be excluded from this new proposal to execute anyone who dares mention politics outside of the allocated prison yard?

 

[Daemon]

Haha this is great - politics is the new direness subbie.

 

[googlyeyes]

Direness subbie?

 

[sledger]

I won't name someone who isn't here to defend himself but I can recall one poster bringing politics into everything to attack someone, 'oh well what would you know, you're xxxx' and to me that sucks

But there are relevant links of politics into everything so a blanket ban to me doesn't work. But if it's brought up without relevance or context I would suggest you already have the rules to deal with that.

Should name him imo. Bloke's a ****. Him ****ing off was one of the best things to have ever happened to the forum.

 

[cnerd123]

Direness subbie?

you're new

 

[googlyeyes]

This place seems charged up.

 

[andmark]

A passing thought I've had is maybe we need to be better at self-policing ourselves. Like you'll get an unnecessarily hostile political post and the instinct is to respond to the political point being made. Do we simply need to remind ourselves that being a **** is a bigger issue than the debate in question and thus we have to call the person out for it?

 

[Spark]

A passing thought I've had is maybe we need to be better at self-policing ourselves. Like you'll get an unnecessarily hostile political post and the instinct is to respond to the political point being made. Do we simply need to remind ourselves that being a **** is a bigger issue than the debate in question and thus we have to call the person out for it?

This, in general, is the ideal.

 

[sledger]

Unfortunately some people can't be trusted to be...non-dire. And this rather puts a hole in that plan.

 

[googlyeyes]

I like your anime avatar.

I don't know what it is but anime girls usually have huge... story lines.