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Originally Posted by Vicky.
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. |
You didn't come over as ranting and I'm pleased you responded as it explains where the surprising censorship came from. It's good to have some rationale, whether I agree or not.
What do I want? Just to understand why what I didn't view as inflammatory posts were suddenly removed almost immediately they were posted. Calling someone scum isn't horrific but it's more inflammatory in my view than what I said in regard Corbyn. So for the sake of comparison I didn't understand why that is ok and what I said wasn't. I am clearer on how it happened now. Though I still disagree that there was a problem with much or what was removed from that particular thread.
With regard the avatars a visual does bring someone to mind. It does for me anyway. Seeing them a lot makes you think of them in relation to the thread.
I hope I've explained as reasonably as you did and you don't feel that I'm getting at you.
Definitely here for more zebra threads.