sjpete wrote:
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That's as may be, but let's keep the politics to all that's strictly pertinent and fruitful to the CITES matters, shall we?
Interesting to reprimand the original poster for commenting on his OP. Especially given that the OP includes this commentary:
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A friend of a friend who makes high end guitars burst into my friend's flute making workshop the other day complaining of "Excessive Government Overreach". Ignoring the fact that the guitar maker supports the current government and is a gun nut besides, my friend and the luthier have a good friendship.
It seems that Mr. Burns is keeping entirely within the boundaries of his own original post. Don't you agree, Smithers?
That, sir, was guidance, as I am charged to do first and foremost. You might notice that I had nothing to say until the the statement I quoted (and which you left out. Context counts.). Do you think that this interval was due to inattention? The Board rules on political content are clear, they apply to one and all, and as a mod I further am ethically bound to make no exceptions. Rather, I should think you would have noted how I stretched this, and stayed my hand. But when political content continues, sooner or later something must be said. We could have all let the matter drop at this point and moved on, and all would have been well. As it is, I have already received complaints about the political content in this thread even though the complainants are personally sympathetic - as am I, if you really need to know. But sympathies are not the point, and when members complain about breaches of clear and published Board principles, moderatorial inaction is no longer an option. And in case I need to point it out, the rules against metamoderating are also clear. Are you going to be the one to force a lock on this thread, then?