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 Coach:
Yeah, CP was created before my time (my account creation), so I do not know the history on the KC Star board. On one hand, that's good about the politics that did lead to the creation of CP in the first place.
But there's also comes a time where it ran its course and it probably needs to be on the wayside?
On the other hand, on past Presidential elections (prior to 2016), was it bad as its alleged to be right now? I don't know as I don't venture over to DC anyways.
Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath15:
You and Pat’s attitude are the problem.
This is a football message board, and you expect the people that actually talk football to walk away so the fringe 40 members out of 10k can argue in their echo chambers.
Wait, you come here, willfully walk into the DC, then get mad about being in the DC.
Put down the crack pipe... Stay in the lounge, you're emotions will be much safer.
Originally Posted by Rams Fan:
Those people should be restricted as DC scum.
There’s also some who don’t contribute at all and don’t run away to their board without letting one contribute (looking at some one who’s username is similar to JacoTohn).
Do we have some rule against lurking? Why is it a problem that some members only post in DC? Those people obviously aren’t the ones cause the politics in the Lounge problem.
Originally Posted by GloryDayz:
Wait, you come here, willfully walk into the DC, then get mad about being in the DC.
Put down the crack pipe... Stay in the lounge, you're emotions will be much safer.
Avoid Whitlock threads...
I think it matters enough to note this: burning DC down wont solve the problem.
Athletes, sports networks, and sports leagues have all opted integrate politics into sports. That makes it hard to eliminate the potential for political talk railroading threads.
As someone else mentioned, the reason for this thread is, there are some people who can't resist bringing DC crap into the lounge. It's like their brain freezes up and they have an uncontrollable impulse to post something political.
Roughly half our reported posts have something to do with politics. Either someone is butt hurt over something someone posted in DC (sometimes justified, sometimes not) or someone posted something political in the Lounge.
Originally Posted by WhiteWhale:
I think it matters enough to note this: burning DC down wont solve the problem.
Athletes, sports networks, and sports leagues have all opted integrate politics into sports. That makes it hard to eliminate the potential for political talk railroading threads.
Noted this several weeks ago and got shouted down.