Are you allowed to post anything here anymore besides "what is your favorite TV show" and the likes?

by bravo75

Posted: 13 years ago 24 replies

OFF TOPIC

I started a thread about the U.S total debt and it got pulled. This is a money making forum right?
Is that topic considered religious or political? Wtf?

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HeySal

13 years ago

Politics are illegal territory here. Unfortunately, we now operate under a system where one can not be separated from the other and have a conversation that still makes sense. Unfortunately - as soon as someone says "government" someone comes in and start railing on one particular party or politician. The mods don't have time to sort the good posts from the bad so they just ditch the whole thread when that happens.

I hope you read this before it gets ditched again.

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Bill Farnham

13 years ago

That was also the 4th or so thread on that topic in the last 30 days. Those other threads went the way of the Dodo and so will the next ones. Don't take it personally, a lot of us commented on those threads.

Unfortunatley, so did seasoned...

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Steven Wagenheim

13 years ago

You can discuss anything other than religion or politics or anything that
could conceivably lead to a conversation on religion or politics.

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Bill Farnham 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

You can discuss anything other than religion or politics or anything that could conceivably lead to a conversation on religion or politics.

Yup, don't be talking about who you think God is going to be pulling for in the next election...
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bravo75 13 years ago

No wonder there's tumbleweed blowing around here.

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

You can discuss anything other than religion or politics or anything that
could conceivably lead to a conversation on religion or politics.
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HeySal

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

You can discuss anything other than religion or politics or anything that
could conceivably lead to a conversation on religion or politics.

Well crap - there goes work, play, men, organic food, weather, rockhounding, grilled cheese, coffee, and asti.

Now what?

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bravo75

13 years ago

You failed to mention UFO's and Philosophy. Ah well, guess I'll flip through the Ashton Kutcher thread for the fifth time.
P.s, how come did the royal wedding thread[s] never get pulled?

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Well crap - there goes work, play, men, organic food, weather, rockhounding, grilled cheese, coffee, and asti.

Now what?

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HeySal

13 years ago

Originally Posted by bravo75

You failed to mention UFO's and Philosophy. Ah well, guess I'll flip through the Ashton Kutcher thread for the fifth time.
P.s, how come did the royal wedding thread[s] never get pulled?

Oh that's easy - the royal family is categorized under high society - right along with Hollywood foibles such as Charlie Sheen.

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bravo75 13 years ago

Under no circumstances ever, ever mention coffee. This inevitably always leads to Columbian politics!

Originally Posted by HeySal

Well crap - there goes work, play, men, organic food, weather, rockhounding, grilled cheese, coffee, and asti.

Now what?
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cynthea 13 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

Well crap - there goes work, play, men, organic food, weather, rockhounding, grilled cheese, coffee, and asti.

Now what?

funny, funny, funny! thank you, gave me a good chuckle!
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Alan Petersen

13 years ago

I've even seen "what is your favorite TV show" type threads turn political and get booted. People just can't help themselves I guess.

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Paul Myers

13 years ago

Alan,

I've even seen "what is your favorite TV show" type threads turn political and get booted.

Yep. I remember at least one of those. One of the regulars decided to comment on the socio-economics of a particularly fun family sitcom in a way that just flared into chaos.

As you say... some people simply cannot help themselves.

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Paul Myers

13 years ago

Example: Thread started about the BBB. See this response: http://www.warriorforum.com/off-topi...ml#post3897364

Someone hasn't read the rules.

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bravo75

13 years ago

Those kind of comments can evolve out of any kind of topic. You could start a thread about an earthquake in some village in Indonesia and without a doubt someone will start banging away at the greedy western governments and how the poor are getting poorer blah blah.

Just about any topic can be politicized. I have seen it even with TV shows threads. U.S shows are better than U.K shows and who invented the language anyway? Ya know, childish bs.

Pulling a thread about the state of the world's finance (a topic that concerns and worries a lot of people) is a bit harsh in my opinion.

Ya know what I mean? Where does it end?
It's not like saying: "Islam, the biggest threat to civilization?"

But it's your house, your rules. I respect that.

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Example: Thread started about the BBB. See this response: http://www.warriorforum.com/off-topi...ml#post3897364

Someone hasn't read the rules.

Paul

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Paul Myers

13 years ago

Not my house or my rules. I'm just the bouncer.

There are certain topics that almost inevitably proceed to politics. International finance is one of them. Not to mention that it attracts the worst sides of the conspiracy theorists.

As far as religious comments, it's the same thing. Doesn't matter what religion anyone mentions, it rolls downhill until someone's personal beliefs are being abused in ways that shouldn't happen. That goes beyond individual insults and into the class of abusing a significant chunk of the population of the globe.

Not cool.

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Paul Myers

13 years ago

By the way... Your earthquake example? There was a thread here in which that happened in a single reply. Yes, the first response to a post went all the way into almost exactly the conversation you described. It may have been the shortest-lived thread that got a response in my experience with OT.

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Bill Farnham

13 years ago

One other thing to keep in mind is that as Google indexes these threads for certain keyphrases it has the ability to attract, how do I say this...undesirable malcontents bent on spreading their cerebralfeces anywhere there is an opening.

So we plug the holes as fast as they crop up.

Well, Sir Paul does, anyway...

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HeySal

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Bill Farnham

Yeah - that's where I get my tolerance and empathy for having rules on subject matter. I've also noticed that when the main forum fills up with "I made THIS much overnight and here's how" threads, we get waves of spammers.

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bravo75

13 years ago

Aww. God bless the poor little spammers with their futile attempts to get their post counts up by spamming the off topic forum.

Some little spammers first post on the WF the other day was a reply to a "what is your favorite 80's band?" Guess what his answer was? The Beatles.

God bless em'

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Bradley J Anderson

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

Alan,Yep. I remember at least one of those. One of the regulars decided to comment on the socio-economics of a particularly fun family sitcom in a way that just flared into chaos.

As you say... some people simply cannot help themselves.

Paul

Married With Children?

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HeySal 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Bradley J Anderson

Married With Children?

If I remember right it was South Park.
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- Paul Myers 13 years ago
  
  Sal,
  
  If I remember right it was South Park.
  
  Different thread. That one didn't surprise me. South Park is ripe for that.
  
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Paul Myers 13 years ago

Bradley,

Married With Children?

Nope. If I recall correctly, it was "Diff'rent Strokes."

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bravo75 13 years ago

Point taken.
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