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Originally Posted by jaxie
First of all, thank you Vicky for posting an explanation.
The problem I have here is that you mention the same few posters bringing up Corbyn all the time. If it's necessary to police Corbyn posts isn't that where it should begin? I know I don't post about him all the time and I can't say I've seen Jet do so which makes it difficult to understand why our posts were targeted. He wasn't being called scum. And I would say it is relevant to point out that the language used towards tory MPs is a lot more inflammatory than the language used about labour from what I see.
I would also argue that the leader of the labour party is always relevant in a political thread.
Can I ask if the Corbyn censorship will also be applied to those having his face as an avatar? Perhaps if we, as a forum, didn't have to look at him so often he wouldn't get brought up so much.
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You have got to be joking here
And are you seriously comparing someone having a Corbyn avatar to the amount of threads taken offtopic with Corbyn stuff in this section, and seemingly blaming the repetitive Corbyn stuff on the avatar someone has?! Thats bonkers.
Its not necessary to police Corbyn posts as such. Its the constant Corbyn posts in random topics. As I said, there have been many complaints, and from members who are from both left and right about it. There was a stage not long ago where someone was posting a LOT of threads on the same topic, and again, taking a lot of other threads offtopic with the same thing, The solution there ended up being that all posts of that nature were put into a singular discussion thread. Unless there was actual new news. Now that it a few members doing it, its not really feasible. I really dont know what you expect us to do here? Just allow every thread to be turned into a Corbyn one and let this section die...just become a group of maybe 5/6 members going round and round in circles while others all just ignore it totally? Maybe thats the best way tbh, as it seems that we will always be in the wrong and honestly, I am getting so sick of complaints and reports and stuff now, almost always about the same thing. Then complaints when we attempt to sort out the thing thats complained about most.
Also its not the inflammatory language thats the problem, I have no idea why so many people think its horrific that dezzy called an MP scum. I really don't see it. Its the repetiveness in every bloody thread thats the problem. I guess a comparison would be if there were a group of members like thetruth...going from thread to thread basically pretty much copy/pasting woman hating stuff. Turning a thread about zebras into a thread about evil women. Bringing up evil women in a thread about a new swiming pool being built, then being congratulated by a couple of other members for bringing up evil women. Then making a thread about how evil women are. Followed by going into thread about trump and saying that evil women deserved to be grabbed by the pussy as they are evil. And so on.
And I am not comparing misogyny to disliking Corbyn btw. Just..that member was fairly obsessive and may be known by you where others might not and I need a comparison to try and show you how it comes across to most.
Maybe we should just create a subsection where politicians are not allowed to be mentioned at all. Which is a serious suggestion brought up by a member which I and another mod agree with and we are just wating on amdin saying something. That may be the only way to actually keep a serious debates section serious debates, instead of sniping and such.
Sorry if this seems I am ranting at you. I really am not and I know this is a huge wall of text but I am just trying to explain the position we are in at the moment and the problem.
Will see if I can get admin to comment on this. As its just realistically going to go round in circles yet again, with me saying the same thing and you saying its censorship then me saying its not then someone else chipping in so yeah. Admins probably best.
Until admin do comment though, this is the rule I am sticking to. I know you find it unfair. But given the sheer amount of complaints this matter has had, and how I (and other mods) see it...it seems the only solution for now. Sorry.