Political Forum - yes or no

And the forum should have an invisibility option.

The day all your PMs to women are made public.

Keeper, how do you add comments after you vote?

The way you just did.

Just reply to the thread like you just did.

You just did.

And some people claim there isn't unity on this board.

There is obviously an interest in politics. A political forum would allow free expression of political opinions and multiple threads without cluttering OT. Also, those who are not interested will not be...um...disturbed.

General can be for stalking, OT can be for Britney and Lindsay and the political forum can be for commies and fucktards. Everyone wins.

Oh, shit. I thought there was some way to make a comment in the vote box! Thanks for not making fun of me - but I can take it if you did.

Okay, here goes my comment. I agree with smileyman's logic. Accurate and right to the point.

I'd be interested to hear Porbeagle expand on his comment that a political fourm would not invite a 'sense of community'. And any counter-comments, please. You can see I've caught the caucus spirit.

Well the only offers I received were a badly worn pair of lifts, some yeast residue, 10 lbs of lime, some belly-button lint, a few bruised oranges, a busted snare head, a pack of "While You Were Out" messages pads, a few Air Supply CD's, a dog-earred copy of the 2/10/97 Time magazine, some Toots boots and a bowl of baked beans. So I voted with my gut knowing full well I may never see some on my best SPL buddies again.

Because once spring training starts, OT will be dominated by NY Yankees cocksucking threads.

That's why.

If nothing else, we know that your gut will have made an impact on the situation.

I just spent a full 5 minutes staring at your avatar.

Skull fucker...

We don't need a seperate forum.
We don't need to confine it to one thread.

We need MORE threads about MORE topics started by MORE people in the same thread.

Will the political forum be its own forum or a sub forum of OT?

A political forum would be a good idea to keep OT free from the political discussions.

It can be removed after the elections.

yes
I love those 10 pages threads about how pelosi/bush/clinton/JFK/lincoln continues to dazzle

I say "yes."

It would allow for Off-Topic to be more open, topical and inviting. I think the "old" SPL would come back quickly there.

Also, I think a political section should be left pretty much alone, within certain obvious limits like porn, etc.

One more thing....

The section should come with a sticky warning....

"Enter here at your own risk. What happens here stays here. If you have a problem with another member whose political views you don't like, then don't post in this section. Don't take your problems with them to other parts of our board."

Cool - an entire forum where less than 10 poster will post 99% of all posts.

Gonna be a very empty and shortlived forum then.

If this happens, I promise to make a full comeback.

Is it too late to change my vote?

Another good reason for a political forum is so whiney bitches like you can shut the fuck up about the demise of the SPL.

Whingey. He's a whingey bitch.

You were never here for a high point, so to you there is no demise.

If the choice is between a separate forum and one political thread that holds all political posts, I vote forum. There are too many different topics, and it would make my teacher's brain explode to try to read one incredibly long, disorganized thread.

Oh for fuck's sake!

I Thought Gob was going to post:

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

Not much to expand, really. If you look at Greasy Lake, they've got a forum for everything. I was thinking that people would hole up in their forum of main intersest and create a seperate sub-culture there. Which of course is fine, but I think we could lose diversity and interaction across geography, culture and politics. That's one of the things I like about this place.

And I guess off-topic would be harder to modeate. Almost every topic can potentially be or turn political in nature.


I voted 'no', by the way, but it was mainly because I couldn't see the results without voting. I really have no idea. I was one of the people begging for a political forum a couple of years ago, but the political nutheads seems to have calmed down over the last one or two years and things seems fine now, if you ask me.

Can I tell people they should be punched in the vagina without fear of being banned in the new Political Forum????

If so, then I vote yes!!!!

Hmmm... maybe this thing isn't such a good idea.

There should be a Politics forum and a Sports forum. Both those subjects are/will be posted about a LOT, with new threads for seemingly everything. And yes, one can say that by the same token we should have separate forums for everything from food to tv and movies, but really, politics and sports are the top two many-multiple-threads subjects.

Unrelated thought is their a complement/opposite for misogny?


Another unrelated thought, how come when I want to check the spelling of a word, invariably in the post it's wrong but when I Google it I always spell it right? Sign of the times.

new title?

Misandry.