blackhawk wrote:Why did you start it in the first place? Like we haven't had enough bad feelings around here because of politics anyway. You started a thread once called "Why do some people shoot themselves in the foot?"
Well, why do you, Dale?
1. I didn't say I thought it was a bad thread. I just wondered if maybe it's time to move on.
2. I started it because I'm always looking for little tidbits from the headlines to allude to in the titles of my newsletters. Had I written a newsletter recently, I probably would have picked up on the "Fair & Balanced" thing. I tried it out here and put the Al Franken article in. That it has strayed off into religious debate is probably not entirely my responsibility.
Well, Dale, you know I disagree with yer political opinions. But lockdown??? Noooooooo waaaaaaaaaaaay! Better watch it, we'll recall ya and vote for an Ooompa Looompa to take yer place.
Also, its only 58 pages short of "that Cutie-Pie thing".
Where are the usual voices who decry lockdowns? What happened to Blumenfeldt et al???
Headquarters has just informed us that as of 11:37 P.M. Eastern time, representatives of the Don't Lockdown Party (DLP) contacted our studios to insist that we immediately cease reporting that the election has been won by the Do Lockdown Party (DLP). The Don't Lockdown Party (DLP) spokesperson stated that it's still too early in the counting of votes, and our reporting may influence people in other time zones not to go to the polls.
We need at least a couple of threads to attract all the cookie, inflammatory and genneraly offensive posts. If you lock it, those people will start posting in the whistle threads!
I think Dale must be commended for starting that thread. By staying away from it, i've been able to have a much more enjoyable C&F experience.
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--Wellsprings--
Gosh darn it. Am I going to have to read that thread. I hate to miss out on something contraversial enough to draw an attempted lockdown. Well piddle, don`t lock it down until I`m finished reading it.
Dale, I have to admire the fact that your asking, I think a lot of moderators would simply make a thread they thought was getting out of hand "disapear", the fact that your even considering a vote is very cool. I have no opinions on lockdown or anything, I dont read political or political related threads, they are not the reason I'm on this board; I basically ignore their exsistence and read about whistles and the people that play them.
We need at least a couple of threads to attract all the cookie, inflammatory and genneraly offensive posts. If you lock it, those people will start posting in the whistle threads!
I think Dale must be commended for starting that thread. By staying away from it, i've been able to have a much more enjoyable C&F experience.
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Certainly there is some truth to this. Satire shows truth in its exaggeration, or even in its falsities, but there have been times that fight threads were going, and I could tell they were fight threads by how fast they were growing, and I never visited said threads, and the other C&F threads were so very civil.
Switchfoot wrote:I dont read political or political related threads, they are not the reason I'm on this board; I basically ignore their exsistence and read about whistles and the people that play them.
I couldn't agree more. I've only been a member for 24 hours - and this is my very first post - but already I've seen threads that start off on subject and seemingly rapidly descend into personal abuse and in one case not far short of racism.
In a group with so many members I guess there are always going to be a tiny proportion of bullies who think it's clever to be clever but at least they seem to be vastly outnumbered on this list by decent, helpful whistlers.
