100% Agree: I am bewildered by the level of resistance towards concepts that my pre-kindergarten age children are aware of, and capable of practicing. We do not need more rules or moderation here. We do not want more rules or moderation here. If you are in favor of a "rules or moderation" solution, then you have the choice of either growing up and learning how adults interact, or fucking leaving the Cellar.

If you leave, don't feel like you need to make an announcement. Just go away and find someplace that you like.

The only people who have suggested moderation in one form or another, in this thread, are Undertoad, Aliantha, Limey, Footfootfoot, Griff and myself, though mine was a joke suggestion.

So, all these people are just childish idiots who need to grow the fuck up or leave the cellar?

Or was it aimed mainly at me? In which case it doesn't make a lot of sense as, my flippant comment about red and yellow cards aside, I have spent much of this thread arguing against increased moderation.

You have just characterised a bunch of people as childish because they have a different view of how the board might work to the one you hold. Whilst steadfastly refusing to engage with the issue at hand.


[eta] Twat.

Alternatively the rest of the kindergarteners simply abandon the idea of playing with the blocks altogether.

Welcome to self policing.

I never said "idiots."



I did say "weak-minded fools" and "sloppy thinkers" but I never said "idiots."

Starts to seriously limit the playbox though.

I would go so far as to say the vast majority here are left of center.

Your post is screaming for a poll!! hear it?

Dana, set up a Poll Poll Poll

I was paraphrasing. Had I been quoting I'd have employed the quote box. Nice side step though.

/waves/These are not the insults you're looking for/jedi hand/

Maybe it's a Brit thing. The board seems mostly centre right to me.

I couldn't tell if it was "paraphrasing," a "joke suggestion," or simply a "flippant comment." Exactly which kinds of posts absolve you of reponsibility? Does that work just for you, or am I also allowed to be "flippant" in your brave new world?

If you really believe someone is shitting in the corner of the sandbox, do you really want to play in that corner?

I get your point, but focusing on Merc seems kind of pointless to me. Sure he's an ass but really he's not alone and if he's quieted then some of the other asses will still make the politics forum unliveable. In the end I feel reasonable political discussion is done and dusted, not just in the cellar but in society.

Then again, you think anything to the right of Marx is a neocon.

You can be flippant all you want sweetie.

The red and yellow card suggestion was in response to somebody else's suggestion that we have a referee: in football (soccer) referees show red and yellow cards when a player does something against the rules.

Not a hilarious joke I grant you, but a joke nonetheless.

You can tell when i am being serious: I explain myself. As I did here:


and here

Now I'd like to get back the fact that you think Undertoad, Aliantha, Limey, Footfootfoot, BigV and Griff are weakminded fools who need to grow up or leave the cellar.