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 suzzer99:
Jesus you're an idiot. Do you think they'd be refusing to visit Mitt Romney? Did they refuse to visit Bush? Hmmmmm.... what could be different this time?
Hmm, maybe eight years of the most divisive turd to ever soil the office between Bush and Trump might have something to with it. :-)
Originally Posted by Frazod:
Always love it when mindless drones talk about anybody else being blind to things. :-)
You are proving DaFace's point. The only mindless drone I see in this thread is the political zombie who thinks life is divided into two adversarial groups, those who agree with your political ideology and those who deserve your hatred.
Originally Posted by penchief:
You are proving DaFace's point. The only mindless drone I see in this thread is the political zombie who thinks life is divided into two adversarial groups, those who agree with your political ideology and those who deserve your hatred.
Originally Posted by DaFace:
It's probably somewhat unavoidable in some cases, so there's unfortunately a lot of grey area. I might suggest the following as an example:
Brook Pryor's actions suggest that she's acting as a SJW. (Factual, and hard to deny given the evidence, so likely fine in the Lounge within reason.)
SJW's and the media are ruining the country. (Blanket statements about a broad group of people. Opinion-based. Likely not appropriate for the Lounge.)
I'd report you to you but you're too cool for such things...
Originally Posted by DaFace:
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.
Did you CC Brooke Pryor? Personally I’d like nothing more than wall of sports from politics but the left refuses to do that.
