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:
It seems a bit far fetched but who knows what big brother is watching. I would think the owner would have to give permission to eavesdrop on a privately owned server.
It's not eavesdropping when it's on a public forum.
Originally Posted by DaFace:
It's all fun and games until the secret service gets involved.
I have no argument for this. Your Trump card is powerful. :-)
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
I have a disagree a bit here, Dude. While some people, such as yourself, may use the DC forum to blow off steam, many others post in that forum because that's exactly what they think and feel about others, regardless of whether or not it's in this forum on in "the real world".
I've seen people in there pile on someone for linking to CNN or CBS News and just get pulverized for even doing something so "vile" and "false". I don't see how anyone familiar with Hammock Parties could think, for even a second, that it's not something he believes because just as he did with Alex Smith, the dude just fucking RAGES at anyone that doesn't share his beliefs.
And don't even get me started on people like GloryDayz or Shitsprayer because there's no way in the world that you can convince me that they're just using the DC to "blow off steam". They express their views in that forum because they believe in those views.
And JFC, Taco John? What a fucking phony. The same dude that banned Chiefsplanet members for even talking about the Chiefs on his shitty forum is the biggest nut and most unhinged person to maybe ever post on the internet. Is he blowing off steam with his vapid conspiracy theories, including the claim that the fly that landed on Pence's head was a Visual Effect (VFX)? I mean, what the fuck, man? The technology to render an effect like that, in Real Time, across multiple feeds, does not exist in any way, shape or form.
And therein, again, lies the problem: Too many of these people feel the same exact way outside of this forum as they do inside this forum, which ultimately leads to those same exact people politicizing everything.
Who is blowing off steam and who is serious? Because calling for the murder of an elected government official isn't funny, sarcastic or "blowing off steam".
And what happens if someone from that forum actually does attempt to murder an elected official? What happens then?
These are fair points. I will admit my post was basically my own POV, and maybe I just hope everyone that really does lose their shit in there are just in fact "blowing off steam".
Originally Posted by Fat Elvis:
If that is really the case, then there is probably around a 100% chance that the Feds took a peek in the DC Lounge to see if he had any collaborators. I wouldn't be surprised if a good chunk of the posters there now have a file based on some of the posts in there.
Let's be honest - a LOT of posters have a LOT of files from a LOT of different places along the web, not just confined to this little spot.
Originally Posted by srvy:
It seems a bit far fetched but who knows what big brother is watching. I would think the owner would have to give permission to eavesdrop on a privately owned server.
1. People who are here to be a part of the community.
2. People who are here to douche the place up.
Truth.
Originally Posted by Shiver Me Timbers:
Oh bullshit. They did other things in their life that caused that. Posting on CP had nothing to do with it. maybe used to validate or whatever but come on.
They got arrested or lost their jobs because of what they said on CP?
no way. Feds "radar"?
Nope. He very much did.
And the fuck said he was going to kick her out over my farm. Fortunately no federal intervention on my part.
Originally Posted by Eureka:
Politics should stay in DC. Seems fair.
Reerun no longer has a job flying planes because of posts he made on CP. OMG.
He got a different job flying planes. But not Elizabeth Warren.
Originally Posted by patteeu: :-) It would be more fun to talk to you if you didn’t suffer from such cognitive degradation when you’re enraged. I never suggested that my reps to you weren’t all positive because the vast majority of reps I’ve given are positive. I just didn’t want to give the impression that I’ve never given neg rep. Read better, Dane.
Alright, you fucking LIAR, I did a Chiefsplanet search:
UserName: patteeu
Keyword: porn
Now, just to be clear, the word "Porn" will appear any time you've used the word and anytime you've quoted someone using the word.
130 Results. Do you know how many times DaneMcCloud was quoted or mentioned?
Originally Posted by DaFace:
Yes. He was arrested and fired because of the post on ChiefsPlanet. He's a pilot and threatened to crash his plane carrying Elizabeth Warren a day before he was scheduled to fly her.
We were contacted by the FBI about it and required to preserve records of the posts.
Originally Posted by Bwana:
Well he was obviously not going to do what he had suggested, but you can't put something out there like that, without risking serious consequences and low and behold.
Agreed. Even if it was made in jest, it's not going to end well, unfortunately.
Originally Posted by srvy:
It seems a bit far fetched but who knows what big brother is watching. I would think the owner would have to give permission to eavesdrop on a privately owned server.
They probably loved your contributions to the threads rooting for and celebrating the cancer and deaths of various federal office holders you didn't like.
Originally Posted by Bowser:
I have no argument for this. Your Trump card is powerful. :-)
These are fair points. I will admit my post was basically my own POV, and maybe I just hope everyone that really does lose their shit in there are just in fact "blowing off steam".
Hard to tell these days in the DC. I rarely ever go to DC, and when I do venture there, I immediately lose brain cells after a few posts that I totally disagreed with, but thankfully I just have some common sense to just ignore it and get the hell away from it.
Last thing I need to do to myself is to morph into a Taco John.
Originally Posted by DaFace:
Yes. He was arrested and fired because of the post on ChiefsPlanet. He's a pilot and threatened to crash his plane carrying Elizabeth Warren a day before he was scheduled to fly her.
We were contacted by the FBI about it and required to preserve records of the posts.
