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Missing the Politics Forum

dwb
dwb Posts: 137
edited August 2023 in General Charlton
Is there any chance we can get back to using the Politics Forum again---I'm missing it!
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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,331
    Screw you, you're an incredibly bad person for saying that 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,047
    I think ending it has been a good thing. Every thread was pretty much the same people saying the same thing, often with increasing hostility. Often the animosity crossed over into the main forum which is unhealthy for the whole site. 

    I’m sure there are politics discussion forums out there, so no-ones really losing anything if they really want to debate politics with strangers online. It just probably doesn’t really belong on a football forum. 
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,627
    Understand why it was pulled. Would prefer to have abusive posters sin binned or banned rather than no HoC at all but it must be a difficult job for the mods and we have to respect their stance, whatever it is.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,648
    AFKABartram said:
    I miss seeing my feet, the original Soccer Saturday panel, not needing a mortgage for a night out and Baywatch at 5.30 on a Saturday, but what can you do?

    We are talking behind the scenes about how we can make it workable, but remember, the only reason it’s closed is because too many grown adults seem unable to talk to each other like grown adults. 
    Fook off.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,602
    AFKABartram said:
    I miss seeing my feet, the original Soccer Saturday panel, not needing a mortgage for a night out and Baywatch at 5.30 on a Saturday, but what can you do?

    We are talking behind the scenes about how we can make it workable, but remember, the only reason it’s closed is because too many grown adults seem unable to talk to each other like grown adults. 
    Me wanty it back 
  • Manic_mania
    Manic_mania Posts: 2,262
    AFKABartram said:
    I miss seeing my feet, the original Soccer Saturday panel, not needing a mortgage for a night out and Baywatch at 5.30 on a Saturday, but what can you do?

    We are talking behind the scenes about how we can make it workable, but remember, the only reason it’s closed is because too many grown adults seem unable to talk to each other like grown adults. 
    bloody CLexit. I blame Trump.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    It reminded me of 1970's wrestling on TV. A lot of posturing and faux fighting.

    So maybe bring it back with @Big_Bad_World as the neutral referee???
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,211
    Well its all going off on the Thunderbird thread; sexists talk about Lady Penelope and apparently Parker outed as a tranny. 🥸
  • cafcpolo
    cafcpolo Posts: 3,813
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Understand why it was pulled. Would prefer to have abusive posters sin binned or banned rather than no HoC at all but it must be a difficult job for the mods and we have to respect their stance, whatever it is.
    Yeah, agreed but I'd just ban, when people go and come back carnage just resumes. There's 5 I can think of off the top of my head that cause 95% of the drama on there.
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  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,680
    If not fussed either way even though I occasionally contributed. I’d bring in a yellow card system for comments like tory Cnut etc or red for name calling. Agree that big bad world should be the moderator too 😂
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    May be an image of text
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    edited August 2023
    I think the only way it can work is when people play the man and not the ball they get chucked off and don't get let back in. I didn't think that at first but it can get silly. Make points, agree or disagree but don't make it personal. With that rule I think it would be fine.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited August 2023
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    I think the only way it can work is when people play the man and not the ball they get chucked off and don't get let back in. I didn't think that at first but it can get silly. Make points, agree or disagree but don't make it personal. With that rule I think it would be fine.
    Fascist.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,047
    stop_shouting said:
    If not fussed either way even though I occasionally contributed. I’d bring in a yellow card system for comments like tory Cnut etc or red for name calling. Agree that big bad world should be the moderator too 😂
    You should get a promote for that!
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    It would help if outright Holocaust revisionism wasn’t actively supported by the admins for a start. Posts that just contain “just f*** off” etc should carry an insta ban. Basically it requires a moderator with half a brain to be actively moderating for it to work, which they don’t seem like they want to do. 
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,987
    As long as the bell-ends don’t start spouting that shit on every thread on the main forum. 

    It’s already creeping back in.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    Just been reminded why it can't come back. 
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,987
    kentaddick said:
    It would help if outright Holocaust revisionism wasn’t actively supported by the admins for a start. Posts that just contain “just f*** off” etc should carry an insta ban. Basically it requires a moderator with half a brain to be actively moderating for it to work, which they don’t seem like they want to do. 
    That’ll help the cause 🤣
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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    The CL terms and conditions clearly say that moderators can do whatever they please without having to explain anything.
    I think they do a good job.
    The moderators often say how time consuming or exasperating it is monitoring the politics forum.
    I agree with the comment above about playing the ball not the man.
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    Baldybonce said:
    It reminded me of 1970's wrestling on TV. A lot of posturing and faux fighting.

    So maybe bring it back with @Big_Bad_World as the neutral referee???
    I've got enough going on in my life, mate, without having to deal with narcissists, perennial victims and those that have a far too elevated opinion of their own moral compass.

    We've seen the underbelly and angry side of a few of the main cast playing out on here over the past few weeks as they go cold turkey in trying to wean themselves off of the bile and hatred they spew.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,602
    ValleyGary said:
    As long as the bell-ends don’t start spouting that shit on every thread on the main forum. 

    It’s already creeping back in.
    Yeah, you need to give it a rest mate.
  • Gary Poole
    Gary Poole Posts: 1,874
    It is a shame, but I can see why this was pulled and in truth a lot of the threads had got to the point of just going round in circles with the same people making the same points and some nasty comments at times too. I think some of the best threads in there were the ones that didn’t have normal political divides such as on crime and punishment and the situation in the Ukraine etc.
     Some times I think the internet brings out the worst in people in that differing views become arguments and the arguments become entrenched. In reality most of us have family and friends with a variety of opinions and we don’t just sit there arguing over everything we disagree on, we normally find common ground (such as the need to get more players in before the transfer window slams shut) and enjoy that together.
    I think most people here would think that democracy is the best political system available and that is founded on people being able to have differing views.
    Personally I hope the politics section comes back and maybe sin bin type timeouts could be useful, but then I’m not the one giving up hours of my time to police it.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited August 2023
    I don't see why the moderators of this forum should be asked to provide yet another platform for the libel and abuse that takes place every time a political discussion arises on social media.  I come to this forum to talk mostly about important things like whether a potential signing has a name that equates tenuously with a fish, and the ensuing paqes of grown men (mostly) creating puerile puns, and the occasional picture of Kenneth Williams going "ooh matron".

    I can then go back to the misery of life in the sinking ship that is the UK a little refreshed.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,331
    Baldybonce said:
    It reminded me of 1970's wrestling on TV. A lot of posturing and faux fighting.

    So maybe bring it back with @Big_Bad_World as the neutral referee???
    Current position of UK Overton window: Millwall 
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,666
    I have taken a peak or two into that part of the forum before and it always amazes me how much time people have on their hands to spend all day arguing with randoms they will never meet.
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    O-Randy-Hunt said:
    I have taken a peak or two into that part of the forum before and it always amazes me how much time people have on their hands to spend all day arguing with randoms they will never meet.
    Nazi!!!
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,911
    O-Randy-Hunt said:
    I have taken a peak or two into that part of the forum before and it always amazes me how much time people have on their hands to spend all day arguing with randoms they will never meet.
    I found it a very useful life lesson after my brief trip there it made me realise that after voting Conservative and for Brexit I was consigned to hell for eternity!!! I have spent everyday since beating myself with a birch to try and redeem my soul
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,866
    Wheresmeticket? said:
    I don't see why the moderators of this forum should be asked to provide yet another platform for the direct and false libel and abuse that takes place every time a political discussion arises on social media.  I come to this forum to talk mostly about important things like whether a potential signing has a name that equates tenuously with a fish, and the ensuing paqes of grown men (mostly) creating puerile puns, and the occasional picture of Kenneth Williams going "ooh matron".

    I can then go back to the misery of life in the sinking ship that is the UK a little refreshed.
    deliberately ironic?
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