Current Affairs/Politics/etc.... Comeback or keep it binned ?

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Post by Yorick »

weeksy wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:24 am
Yorick wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:21 am What would be cool is a "complain" button. If you don't like an angry reply, just press the button. When 5 members do it, the reply is deleted automatically.

The members self moderate.
Doesn't exist within the forum software.

There is of course the report button, which is very very rarely used by people.
Yeah, I know. It was tongue in cheek, but a good idea in theory.
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Post by DefTrap »

weeksy wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:38 am Which funnily enough, are mostly the same people who cause most of the issues :D
They're the ones who know the rules very well and struggle to stay just inside them.
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Post by Horse »

MrLongbeard wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 9:16 am
Horse wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 9:13 am FWIW, I haven't really missed it.
but but but, monkey pox, super gonorrhea and a yacht sinking have passed us by :shhh:
As @Yorick pointed out some time ago, there's a value to having a single thread where we can post the sad / stupid / scary / confusing, etc. news stories.

Oh yes there is

Oh no there isn't

What do you know

You'd have to be stupid to think that

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Post by Ian »

Mr Moofo wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:26 am I have never understood why people just don't read stuff they don't like
Heres my perspective. I only went there regularly as a mod but I have looked since and subsequently opted myself out. There are some genuinely interesting discussions I'd like to read but they get overshadowed by entrenched opinions, no debate just name calling. That's on both sides.

I think some want an unmoderated bear pit, with the advent
of cancel culture, that's just a threat to Weeksy's hosting, possibly worse
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Post by Count Steer »

Horse wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:43 am
MrLongbeard wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 9:16 am
Horse wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 9:13 am FWIW, I haven't really missed it.
but but but, monkey pox, super gonorrhea and a yacht sinking have passed us by :shhh:
As @Yorick pointed out some time ago, there's a value to having a single thread where we can post the sad / stupid / scary / confusing, etc. news stories.

Oh yes there is

Oh no there isn't

What do you know

You'd have to be stupid to think that

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You can't have too many 'dog that says sausages' or 'London bus found on moon' or, as today 'snake in bog bit my plums' stories eh?
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Post by Ian »

gremlin wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:56 am
(You have be fecking old to get that reference)
90% of us did :lol:
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Post by Rockburner »

Ian wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:57 am
gremlin wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:56 am
(You have be fecking old to get that reference)
90% of us did :lol:
I now feel young. :D
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Post by Horse »

Rockburner wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 12:02 pm I now feel young. :D
That's an offence ;)
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Horse wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 12:18 pm
Rockburner wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 12:02 pm I now feel young. :D
That's an offence ;)
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Post by Dodgy69 »

Yep, bring it back... if you can't hack the lions cage, don't go in there, it ain't that difficult. 🤷‍♂️
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Post by Taipan »

Yup, bring it back, some good stuff gets posted in there as well as bad stuff. That said, I think the mods should brandish the ban hammer for any truculent criticism of my posts! :thumbup:
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Post by Noggin »

MrLongbeard wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 9:16 am
Horse wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 9:13 am FWIW, I haven't really missed it.
but but but, monkey pox, super gonorrhea and a yacht sinking have passed us by :shhh:
This is my issue. I don't read the news or listen to it anywhere. So the "Today's News" type thread was great for me cos I could go look up stuff I thought I'd be interested in - like the big yacht thingy that sank, I didn't know about that and it was days ago!! Ok, not really 'massively interesting' to me but as I grew up sailing, the whys and wherefors are interesting.

Felix wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 9:16 am The options are dont go into the post if you dont like the discussion. I dont see why folk pop in and complain. You even gave the hide the section option yet they still come to try and wind people up. Im sure they enjoy poking the hornets nest.
Yup!

gremlin wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:35 am
Mr Moofo wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:26 am
weeksy wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:24 am

Doesn't exist within the forum software.

There is of course the report button, which is very very rarely used by people.
I have never understood why people just don't read stuff they don't like
How would you know you don't like it without reading it first? And by then it's too late and sensibilities will be bruised. :o
This is the bit I REALLY don't get - you can read, dislike and walk away (scroll away?). I've always struggled to understand how a group of lairy bikers have such feeble sensibilities!! :lol: :lol: :lol:



I am glad the news today (or whatever) thread will be back again :D :D
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Post by Le_Fromage_Grande »

Bin it, the World would be a better place without politicians.
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 10:05 pm Bin it, the World would be a better place without politicians.
...solicitors, marketing execs and Mr Dazzle.
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Post by Mr. Dazzle »

KungFooBob wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 10:10 pm
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 10:05 pm the World would be a better place without .
Mr Dazzle.
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Post by KungFooBob »

Surely you'd have a carbon fibre Deathstar!
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Electric too, natch.
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Noggin wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 5:05 pm
This is the bit I REALLY don't get - you can read, dislike and walk away (scroll away?). I've always struggled to understand how a group of lairy bikers have such feeble sensibilities!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Lairy bikers? More like IT nerds and accountants :)

I say bring it back, I wouldn't even bother moderating it. The politics forum is like a short video I saw of 2 dogs barking at each other through an open glass door. When one dog walked through the open door to the water bowl it all stopped and resumed when he went back to the other side of the glass.
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Post by Pirahna »

Timmy wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 8:55 am I say bring it back
It was unlocked yesterday.