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The one plus about the political threads is it gets us all out of our echo chambers - football crowds are such a cross section of society / opinions - not quite all human life is here, but a fair bit is.
Where’s the Nice thread gone? on 12:53 - Oct 30 by robith
Yeah I basically don't bother with them now. Think I established pretty much no one agreed with me so it always just ended in some cyclical nowhere argument. Much better value to be had in music and beer threads
Never mind the thread, just the beer and music is sufficient
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Where’s the Nice thread gone? on 19:54 - Oct 30 with 1726 views
Where’s the Nice thread gone? on 13:04 - Oct 30 by Northernr
I'm not far off agreeing with you, and for the most part we do now just delete the politics threads because...
- they've all been done to death on here, nobody is going to change their views, we all know who's on what side, we don't need ten pages of left v right on whatever the issue of the day is every week. - More than anything else they turn nasty, aggressive, bring out the worst in people, require heavy, constant moderation which after 16 years I'm just not prepared to do any more. - It's a football message board at the end of the day. I don't enforce that strictly, but when it's becoming a bulletin board for Momentum, EDL, Brexit Party etc... that's not a board I want to post on, run or be responsible for. Loads of other places people can do that. - They put people off posting. Been told that multiple times by multiple people "love the site but don't get involved on the board because of the politics". It puts me off posting and it's my site.
But if we take the Trump one, for instance, I'm not sure it's realistic to not have a thread about the presidential election in presidential election week and the discussion on there is pretty civil and interesting at the moment so it would be a shame to bin it, and almost certainly replaced immediately by another one.
Now you could say the same about Nice, of course, apart from the "civil and interesting" bit, but that thread, as all threads on that topic do, quickly fills up with posters you rarely see, posters who never comment on the football stuff, enjoying the opportunity for a "oh look the fcking muzzies are at it again" pile on. Nice, barely veiled, woe is me, "there is a solution but oh, tee hee, I'm not allowed to say it" posts with eight upvotes. I don't want that on here. I don't want to provide a platform for that. If you don't like it, there are plenty of other places that will host that, go use those.
Basically the politics threads are deleted. And the Corbyn one probably will be too. But I try to allow some common sense and leeway.
For the record, I wasn’t talking about politics but was merely expressing my sympathy for the people of a beautiful city I remember fondly.
FWIW I used to quite like the politics threads on here because the only thing we have in common is the Rs, so you got a little outside of your own political bubble, and personally I was a bit less likely to write someone off as a loony Fascist/Stalinist/delete as appropriate if I knew they had sound views on painting Keith Stroud with honey and throwing into a bear-pit.
Sadly it's got to the point where we all know what each other think, none of us are giving ground and it easily gets poisonous. In fact I've stopped posting on the political site that I'm on for the same reasons, I just go there to find out technical stuff like "is Trump doing better with latino old men in Florida than Texas"
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Where’s the Nice thread gone? on 21:15 - Oct 30 with 1610 views
Where’s the Nice thread gone? on 20:57 - Oct 30 by CiderwithRsie
FWIW I used to quite like the politics threads on here because the only thing we have in common is the Rs, so you got a little outside of your own political bubble, and personally I was a bit less likely to write someone off as a loony Fascist/Stalinist/delete as appropriate if I knew they had sound views on painting Keith Stroud with honey and throwing into a bear-pit.
Sadly it's got to the point where we all know what each other think, none of us are giving ground and it easily gets poisonous. In fact I've stopped posting on the political site that I'm on for the same reasons, I just go there to find out technical stuff like "is Trump doing better with latino old men in Florida than Texas"
your final sentence put the most horrible image in my head.
Seems about as consistent a policy as the UK government's Covid strategy (against which Clive fulminates so eloquently). Why, then, are we allowed posts on Jeremy Corbyn, people's musical tastes and ailing families, if the policy is to stick to all things QPR and eschew the politics of daily life/world events? Am I missing something?
Where’s the Nice thread gone? on 07:59 - Oct 31 by stainrods_elbow
Seems about as consistent a policy as the UK government's Covid strategy (against which Clive fulminates so eloquently). Why, then, are we allowed posts on Jeremy Corbyn, people's musical tastes and ailing families, if the policy is to stick to all things QPR and eschew the politics of daily life/world events? Am I missing something?
I’ve explained that higher up.
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Where’s the Nice thread gone? on 08:39 - Oct 31 with 1354 views
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