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 Easy 6:
Eh, lets give' em the benefit of the doubt...
We're all still learning to navigate this krazy new 24/7 all pervasive political reality
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.
Originally Posted by GloryDayz:
Agree. Political topics started in the not-DC simply need to be moved to the DC.
That would be like cooper saying he has free reign to post porn every time someone posts a picture of Brodie Croyle's wife, because well, it was headed down that path anyway.
Nice loophole... no politics in the Lounge, so just post a thread so we can all go wild! :-)
Originally Posted by Bearcat:
Number of reported posts for politics in the Lounge in the past ~week: 7
Number of thread bans for those posts in the past week: 7
Number of reported posts all time from both of you combined: 0
Originally Posted by eDave:
Oh stop. That one wasn't political until it was made political. Many, many people weren't the ones to make it political. Excuses for lack of self control will not be accepted as valid reasoning.
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
That's absolutely not true.
There's plenty of BOTH sides in the COVID thread.
There's plenty of BOTH sides in the NBA thread (now moved).
I don't care which side you're on, if you say only one side is tolerated, you're lying to yourself.
I haven’t been in that thread for a long time. The fact that both sides are there isn’t in dispute. The question is whether our moderators are able to recognize both sides.
Originally Posted by eDave:
Oh stop. That one wasn't political until it was made political. Many, many people weren't the ones to make it political. Excuses for lack of self control will not be accepted as valid reasoning.
Yeah, that's the shitty part.... the 2nd part of the article was clearly political and I'm sure that was Whitlock's intent, but plenty of people are 100% capable of steering away from that anyway.
Just like the Covid thread.... there's actually a lot of good conversation sprinkled in with all of the crap and to simply say there shouldn't be a Lounge Covid thread because of the politics is crap for all the people who aren't/weren't there to opinion spam and turn it into a cesspool.
Originally Posted by patteeu:
I haven’t been in that thread for a long time. The fact that both sides are there isn’t in dispute. The question is whether our moderators are able to recognize both sides.
The fact that both sides are still posting there all but proves they're not just allowing one side to voice their opinions. That was what was alleged, after all.
If you're too lazy to report posts, you have no right criticizing the mods for not doing their jobs.
The biggest part of a moderators job is to adjudicate complaints. The board software has a specific mechanism for lodging those complaints. For a reason.
Not reporting posts and then calling out the mods in public is straight up childish.
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
If you're too lazy to report posts, you have no right criticizing the mods for not doing their jobs.
The biggest part of a moderators job is to adjudicate complaints. The board software has a specific mechanism for lodging those complaints. For a reason.
Not reporting posts and then calling out the mods in public is straight up childish.
Man, I ain't never complained about the mods. Never, ever. This issue with CP is the users. That particular clique of users suck ass so hard.
