We're seeing an uptick in people randomly throwing out political bullshit in threads in the Lounge. Don't. Report people who do. They'll get booted from the thread for a first offense and more than that if they continue.
The end.
(Oct 2020 update)
Originally Posted by Bearcat:
It's safe to say thread bans aren't working, at least for the handful of people who simply can't keep politics out of any given conversation.
Due to continued reported posts and general frustrations around inserting politics into absolutely everything, and idea came up to restrict people to DC, much like the Romper Room.
So, everyone gets three thread bans as warnings, and after that will get a vacation in DC (the other forums will be view only). The thread bans and DC vacations will be posted in the transparency thread.
Just like several other rules, there's of course gray area and it doesn't really matter where the line is drawn, because those who can keep politics out of the Lounge will never come close to the line and those who can't will insist on running right up to it.
Generally speaking, we're talking about political opinions or blatantly inserting politics into a thread that isn't even a little bit on topic, or otherwise leaking DC BS into the Lounge or other forums.
Originally Posted by jerryaldini:
I don't see what srvy being old has to do with anything.
A lot of his posts contain graphic descriptions of gay sex and it's just unsettling to think there's this 80 year old out there posting about gay sex so much.
Originally Posted by Spott:
I put that thread on ignore months ago, along with all the other political stuff that got started in the lounge around the same time. It’s definitely apparent that political opinions are ok in the lounge, just as long as they align with a certain side.
It's not about the political views of who is doing the moderating, it's about the political views of who does the complaining, and how often they do it. One side is significantly more emotionally weak and that's how they compensate.
There are lots of things that are not acted on. People post all sorts of racist garbage here, from racial slurs to just long term posting of racist takes about everything. Everyone knows that as long as they don't say the magic word nothing will be done. When you know that is the case it's understandable why people don't bother reporting it.
Originally Posted by srvy:
The benefit of the doubt? They pretty much blew that big time. That thread would have never gotten out of hand if it had been moderated with an even hand. This place isn't close to what it used to be so many have left It not fun anymore and its happened rapidly.
You might be an old man who yells at a cloud if you say things like:
Originally Posted by jerryaldini:
I don't see what srvy being old has to do with anything.
Don't get him started on old-timey candy. He'll talk for hours about the town taffy pulls and how different cotton candy was from the crap they serve today because back then they made it out of REAL fiberglass and asbestos!
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
There are two types of people that post on CP:
1. The kind of people that want a tightly moderated forum. They want to discuss the topic at hand without going off topic and interjecting politics. They keep football talk in the Lounge and Draft forums, keep the Entertainment talk in the Media Center and keep the political talk in the DC.
2. The kind of people that start threads of any topic, even borderline political, in the Lounge. They see everything through a political lens. They don’t care if they’re starting threads in the wrong forums, talk about politics when it’s unnecessary and unwarranted and really don’t give a shit what other people think of their behavior. The worst of the lot dare people to report them and dare the Mods to ban them.
Originally Posted by Bugeater:
It's not about the political views of who is doing the moderating, it's about the political views of who does the complaining, and how often they do it. One side is significantly more emotionally weak and that's how they compensate.
If it's true one side does all of the complaining on the frontend by reporting posts, it's also true the other side does all of the complaining on the backside in the gripe thread about thread boots and how it's all one sided.
Originally Posted by Eleazar:
There are lots of things that are not acted on. People post all sorts of racist garbage here, from racial slurs to just long term posting of racist takes about everything. Everyone knows that as long as they don't say the magic word nothing will be done. When you know that is the case it's understandable why people don't bother reporting it.
It's dealt with whenever reported... the majority of that kind of stuff takes place in DC, which of course doesn't make it any more right, but it's the place that once asked for a list of racist words to be added to the rules so everyone knew just how racist they could be... :-)
