Poll: Role of Political Advertisement on ChiefDelphi

phrontist · #1 02-01-2005, 12:46

Everything is politics. If you have a group of people, interacting, and if even one of them has an opinion, it's politics. I personally don't see why the ACLU thread was closed, but I do think it would have been better if the origional poster had written a careful explanation of why he thought people should support the ACLU on this plan of action.

Full Disclosure: I'm a card-carrying ACLU member, so I guess I'm biased.

phrontist · #2 02-01-2005, 12:47

Oh, and isn't this kind of metaironic...

This is a political thread!

How about a politics forum? Keep it seperate from everything else? It could be a chit-chat subforum. Read it if you want, forget it even exists if you don't. Everyone is happy.

Yan Wang · #3 02-01-2005, 13:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by phrontist

Oh, and isn't this kind of metaironic...

This is a political thread!

How about a politics forum? Keep it seperate from everything else? It could be a chit-chat subforum. Read it if you want, forget it even exists if you don't. Everyone is happy.

If the ACLU thread were under that forum, the same problem could've occurred. Relabeling its category does nothing to change the fact that rude posts could be made. Some people will certainly not look at that forum, but I think many more will. Perhaps since the chit-chat forum is an island apart from the rest of the forums, different moderators could be employed to monitor it than the rest.

Tom Bottiglieri · #4 02-01-2005, 13:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yan Wang

If the ACLU thread were under that forum, the same problem could've occurred. Relabeling its category does nothing to change the fact that rude posts could be made. Some people will certainly not look at that forum, but I think many more will. Perhaps since the chit-chat forum is an island apart from the rest of the forums, different moderators could be employed to monitor it than the rest.

Whats rude to you may be acceptable to someone else.

What if... a sub category was created that could only be viewed by MEMBERS of the forum who chose to be a part of it. So, new members would never even see this forum, or knew it existed until they read a certain sticky thread and signed up to be able to read it.

JohnBoucher · #5 02-01-2005, 13:27

We are guests of ChiefDelphi, and so we should act like it. Thanks for inviting us over ChiefDelphi.

View Poll Results: What should be done about political advertisement threads?
These types of threads should be banned.	28	31.11%
Moderators should be especially watchful of these threads.	48	53.33%
Nothing, political arguments have a role on ChiefDelphi.	26	28.89%
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