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

[Yorick]

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.

[DefTrap]

Which funnily enough, are mostly the same people who cause most of the issues

They're the ones who know the rules very well and struggle to stay just inside them.

[Horse]

FWIW, I haven't really missed it.

but but but, monkey pox, super gonorrhea and a yacht sinking have passed us by

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

...

[Ian]

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

[Count Steer]

FWIW, I haven't really missed it.

but but but, monkey pox, super gonorrhea and a yacht sinking have passed us by

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

...

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?

[gremlin]

'Cyril...'

Screenshot_20240822_115509.jpg (217.12 KiB) Viewed 1081 times

(You have be fecking old to get that reference)

[Ian]

(You have be fecking old to get that reference)

90% of us did

[Rockburner]

(You have be fecking old to get that reference)

90% of us did

I now feel young.

[Horse]

I now feel young.

That's an offence

[Count Steer]

I now feel young.

That's an offence

To the carousel with 'im!

Oh.

[Dodgy69]

Yep, bring it back... if you can't hack the lions cage, don't go in there, it ain't that difficult.

[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!

[Noggin]

FWIW, I haven't really missed it.

but but but, monkey pox, super gonorrhea and a yacht sinking have passed us by

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.

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!

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.

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!!



I am glad the news today (or whatever) thread will be back again

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Bin it, the World would be a better place without politicians.

[KungFooBob]

Bin it, the World would be a better place without politicians.

...solicitors, marketing execs and Mr Dazzle.

[Mr. Dazzle]

the World would be a better place without .

Mr Dazzle.

[KungFooBob]

Surely you'd have a carbon fibre Deathstar!

[Mr. Dazzle]

Electric too, natch.

[Timmy]

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!!

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.

[Pirahna]

I say bring it back

It was unlocked yesterday.