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Originally Posted by boiler
Either way, this thread has the potential to become a very slippery slope. Discussing politicians as they pertain to FIRST (see other thread) is quite different from discussing politics in general. If you do decide to post something in this thread, be very careful and professional about it. Much like religion, people's political views tend to be rather personal, and they can get touchy about it. I've seen similar threads, with innocent enough beginnings, get quickly shut down by the Mods, usually with the disclaimer that there are plenty of sites on the Internet to discuss politics.
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Exactly right. Do a search for "politics" or "political". A fair number of the threads that turn up are locked. Most of those would be due to the topic getting out of control.
Remember, the CD mods can delete/close a thread whenever it isn't robotics related, according to the rules. They choose not to use that power most of the time. The times they do use it, it's typically because a flame war started or the topic was otherwise off-limits. Usually, mature discussion is not closed; immature discussion often is.
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