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[rzr]

Re: Let me make something clear.

Tokzic hit the nail on the head.

And Sprite-, I wish someone would make a CT thread about the election. I want to debate it with some people without the thread kissing it's ass goodbye before the start.

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

Re: Let me make something clear.

4) Is my forum name free of numbers, special characters, and random letters (xXnameXx)?

Excuse me? The name of a person's account has almost no relevance as to their intelligence or what they could possibly bring into the discussion at hand.

[Afrobean]

Re: Let me make something clear.

Take for example the politics threads. No one is going to change their opinions about the candidates, and it will only lead to flaming, which is why squeek doesn't want them. They are virtually unproductive.

Not true.

I've changed my political stance. I used to think Dems were dandy and socialism was great. Now I'm a right-leaning libertarian of sorts.

That said, I can totally get behind the idea of not allowing politics threads. Most of you kids don't know anything and don't know how to discuss things reasonably. Also, folks like me troll the opposing side, so that's no good.

ps people arguing against this are ******s

[Bolth mannn]

Re: Let me make something clear.

phynx, i totally agree with you....i was very respectful towards mods (still am to most) however, i just read one of squeeks posts...and your true...he just wrecks the conversations, i cant exactly remember one off by hand, but i definately thing squeek is one of the mods abusing his power.

[welsh_girl]

Re: Let me make something clear.

Oh dear, simple rules have had to have a sticky.
There has been a sheite load of locking lately, I don't blame Squeek.

[Squeek]

Re: Let me make something clear.

phynx, i totally agree with you....i was very respectful towards mods (still am to most) however, i just read one of squeeks posts...and your true...he just wrecks the conversations, i cant exactly remember one off by hand, but i definately thing squeek is one of the mods abusing his power.

Bahahaha.

That is all.

[Crayzie]

Re: Let me make something clear.

I see no reason to go against the judgement of the forum moderators.
Hail the mods.

[rzr]

Re: Let me make something clear.

Not true.

I've changed my political stance. I used to think Dems were dandy and socialism was great. Now I'm a right-leaning libertarian of sorts.

That said, I can totally get behind the idea of not allowing politics threads. Most of you kids don't know anything and don't know how to discuss things reasonably. Also, folks like me troll the opposing side, so that's no good.

ps people arguing against this are ******s

Again, not if we can pull it off in CT.

[NFD]

Re: Let me make something clear.

If it gets put in Critical Thinking, it'll derail faster than a bullet train with a suicidal conductor.

[rzr]

Re: Let me make something clear.

If it gets put in Critical Thinking, it'll derail faster than a bullet train with a suicidal conductor.

Stupid metaphor. Would you like to elaborate?

[Izzy]

Re: Let me make something clear.

Unfortunately on ffr moderators can do whatever they want and you have no authority to question it.

Just don't make stupid threads I suppose. Ironically this thread has turned quite stupid.

[NFD]

Re: Let me make something clear.

Stupid metaphor. Would you like to elaborate?

So far every presidential thread has done this. Putting it in Critical Thinking will just cause a much bigger flame war than could be possible in Chit Chat/TGB. Also I came up with that metaphor. ;_;

[nuclearsamurai]

Re: Let me make something clear.

EDIT: Yo squeek, you might want to just delete these posts and lock the thread, this is just getting nowhere.

This really is getting nowhere.

If anything, it's just turning into a conversation with Squeek and Phynx.

Phynx, PM Squeek and and just try to prove him wrong.

Everyone else, I don't think Squeek is abusing his power. He's just doing what he feels is right to do, which is mostly locking threads that he knows will go nowhere and/or are pointless to exist. Also, he's keeping CC or any other forum here free of mindless crap and/or wastes of time, from what I've read.

Quit complaining.

[rzr]

Re: Let me make something clear.

So far every presidential thread has done this. Putting it in Critical Thinking will just cause a much bigger flame war than could be possible in Chit Chat/TGB. Also I came up with that metaphor. ;_;

Ok, you fail at white text. Also, CT rules bar flaming more than regular forum rules. So... Yeah.

[qqwref]

Re: Let me make something clear.

2) Will the discussion lead to heavy flaming?
...
If the answer to any of these questions is "no", then don't post it.

Ohhhhhh. Okay.


More seriously, I know I haven't been on the forums for long so I don't have much perspective, but I do find it kind of annoying when a relatively recently created thread about something I might want to talk about is locked. I'm sure that it is common for threads about politics and moral issues to devolve into flaming, but I see that as the fault of the people who start the flames and keep them going rather than the fault of the person who wanted to discuss the topic in the first place. Excepting trolls, people don't create topics about politics/religion because they WANT them to become flamewars. I think you'd see much better discussions if you gave out short bans to the people who ruin discussions, rather than just close the topics of discussions that end up ruined.