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 srvy:
This is the truth. We saw how it went in the non-political COVID thread. I have my doubts fairness rules the day.
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.
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.
There's really no reason for that thread anymore. Same shit over and over, IMO. Ain't been there in a while.
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.
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.
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.
Originally Posted by srvy:
This is the truth. We saw how it went in the non-political COVID thread. I have my doubts fairness rules the day.
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 GloryDayz:
Agree. Political topics started in the not-DC simply need to be moved to the DC.
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.
