Self Policing Militia Summons

[DanaC]

Damn you Lookout! You do too eat puppies!

I wouldn;t say I avoid the politics forum entirely. Mainly, I go by the 'new posts' search and don't really look at which forum they're in. That said, recently I have found myself clicking links and seeing a page of to'n'fro I just don't bother reading it, and go find something else instead.

I'm not sure what the answer is really. I'm not even entirely sure what the problem is. I mean, like Lookout said, we used to have very heated debates. Hell quite a few of us have fallen out , or come close, in discussions that hit our political, or moral buttons. We've dropped into flame wars with each other, taken sides and formed impromptu mini-factions, played out our conflicts and then played Three Word At A Time stories with each other.

I can't quite put my finger on why it is different now. What about it is different to what we were doing before. It's not that it gets personal now, because there was always that edge to political debate. It's not that there are feuds going on, because there always were.

*shrugs*



[eta] I am rather glad this has been brought up actually. I think it's right that we, as a community discuss this sort of thing. After all, if the mods were to start wielding amighty banhammer, or deleting/closing threads, or suspending members for the kinds of thing we've been discussin, then that would represent a distinct change in their style of moderation: that is something the community needs to be involved with I think.

Also: I don't think the mods should be jumping on any post that gets personal or insulting. We're grownups we can handle a bit of insult. It's the scale and frequency of a particular kind of argument I think that is causing the problems.