[MrToast]

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Personally, I don't give a hoot what anyone thinks politically. I believe what I believe, I know what I know, and I make my decisions based on what I believe and what I know. I don't like it when I express my opinion on (for example) politics and somebody responds "You're wrong, idiot." That really gets me. First, no one here knows anything about me, or the experiences I've had that have led me to my current beliefs. For someone to blatantly attack my personal beliefs with no foundation for how I came to arrive at those beliefs is wrong.

OK, I'm reading this and I think I'm rambling. So I'll get to my point.

I don't think CD should allow political threads. This is a robotics site. Not a political opinion site. HOWEVER, I do realize that people are guaranteed by the First Amendment to say whatever they want to say. Therefore, I think a separate "politics" subforum should be created, with an option in the User preferences to hide/show it. That way the people who want to see and participate in political threads can do so, and the people who don't particularly care for them (like myself), can easily ignore them (because they wouldn't be visible).

However, this would probably take a lot of work on Brandon's part to implement.

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Dave