Politics and stuff

[Bruce Wayne]

As some of the longer term members know, we've had long-running discussions about the merits of political threads on GOT as they tend to result in disagreements and in-fighting amongst Blues.

They, and other similarly 'hot' topics, do tend to be discussed however, so we're going to trial putting them all into the upgraded member lounge, where moderation is more relaxed on account of it being primarily used by members who have shown a willingness to support the site.

Threads that will be put there include topics such as politics, religion, guns and so on. Any existing threads on these topics will be moved over to the upgraded lounge by Sunday evening.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Well ask him then

Well, he said he liked the idea when I raised it in mod central at the start of the week, so unless I hear otherwise...

 

[Clint Planet]

Well, he said he liked the idea when I raised it in mod central at the start of the week, so unless I hear otherwise...

Have you had any feedback from anyone else about the issue? Any board members, say?

 

[Kurt.]

Don't see a problem here.. the rules say no politics. Simple.

 

[Groucho]

Then adhere to the site rules, which I have bothered to read, and ban it altogether. Otherwise, revise the rules to include 'contributions must not be, unless a subscriber:'

As Bruce has explained previously, this is a trial. If it doesn't work we will look at it again.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Don't see a problem here.. the rules say no politics. Simple.

So why would it be allowed but not to all. Thats discriminative action.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Have you had any feedback from anyone else about the issue? Any board members, say?

It was discussed by the mod team, yes.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

So why would it be allowed but not to all. Thats discriminative action.

Had to laugh at this when I saw your avatar.

 

[bring the ghost on]

Well, he said he liked the idea when I raised it in mod central at the start of the week, so unless I hear otherwise...

Perhaps its worth feeding back again with the comments raised in this thread.

You seem hell bent on pushing this idea through.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

Perhaps its worth feeding back again with the comments raised in this thread.

You seem hell bent on pushing this idea through.

JUST ACTIVATE ARTICLE 50 FOR GODSAKE @Bruce Wayne

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Blues,

Moderators try and make this place the best online platform for Evertonians - great to see the passion behind feedback here but it's worth keeping that in mind before sniping and being overly miserable.

Politics. Many on here will know we've had more u-turns on how we handle politics than any other issue in our 10 years managing this place because it's a difficult one.

Anything 'religion, racial or political' tend to cause angst and aggro. In my opinion, it causes good blues to needlessly fall out. Our standard for the last few years has been;

q) Contributions must not be... religious, racial or political. There are other forums on the Internet suited for exactly this type of discussion, and ask that you please conduct such discussions on those forums.

In short, swerve the moody stuff. Some really good blues have been banned over the years, on a football forum - because of politics. Mods have been asked to be lenient with this and let it go until it gets a bit silly.

There's been a big increase in political threads in the ale house and so, we've revisited this.

An idea put forward was 'Politics. But lets stick it elsewhere with a disclaimer to prevent the titty lips'

The elsewhere bit - it seemed logical to put it in the upgraded forum, though based on comments in this thread, it could be an idea to create another forum for current affairs...

As bruce said, it's a trial.

 

[Groucho]

Groucho, I keep hearing this, yet in another thread Bruce posted this:



which suggests to me that Bruce already has a fair idea of the results of this so-called experiment.

That is his inkling I'm sure. He too is allowed an opinion on how he thinks it will pan out.

But we will see how it goes and change if needed.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Had to laugh at this when I saw your avatar.

So you are saying that you wanna supress conservative voice with this action

 

[bring the ghost on]

The elsewhere bit - it seemed logical to put it in the upgraded forum, though based on comments in this thread, it could be an idea to create another forum for current affairs...

I think this sounds like a good idea.

 

[magicjuan]

Under the proposals what would be the approach to a thread on today's Times report on a misfired Trident missile. Would that be considered political as of itself despite the quite obvious point that any discussion would contain political opinion yet is a defence/military topic. Would I have to pay a fee to discuss that?
How about Plato? Ramses? Caesar?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Perhaps its worth feeding back again with the comments raised in this thread.

You seem hell bent on pushing this idea through.

Yes, I'm usually keen to experiment rather than assume the answer is known before hand. We've got nearly 10 years of evidence of what things have been like up until now.