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Originally Posted by jaxie

You aren't the only person who has a Corbyn avatar and it's a fair question. If someones face is there it makes you think of them. If we aren't supposed to mention him then it's going to be harder if, as well as being the leader of the opposition, we have to keep seeing his face. I can't speak for others but I am personally influenced by visuals.

Interestingly talking of mudslinging, I don't think I've seen Corbyn called scum on a thread in recent history.

Who's the other member? I've just checked Kizzy's and hers is a Theresa May avatar. I don't recall seeing any other Corbyn avatars over the last six weeks or so to be honest.

But sorry, I'm not buying what you're selling. If I'm rarely posting in the Serious Debates section, are you honestly trying to suggest that you seeing mine (and other's) posts in different sections is making you want to talk about Jeremy Corbyn in threads that bear very little relation to him? With all due respect, you're a grown woman - it is your responsibility to determine how you respond to threads - making out that 'the nasty Corbyn avatars put him into my head I couldn't help it ' is just silly. Basically you're just trying to pass the buck because you're unhappy that the mods are asking for threads not to be derailed.

I don't understand people's opposition to the word 'scum' either, I really couldn't care less if people called Corbyn that or not...he and his supporters have been insulted in far worse terms on this forum.

Originally Posted by Vicky.

I don't feel this would satisfy people either, but it is an interesting suggestion and may be better than deleting posts. An issue here would be, many of the posts won't actually be a discussion though. Like, if all the offtopic things were moved there the thread would read







A few offtopic posts is fine. Hell even whole threads taken offtopic are fine if the discussion naturally goes that way. But when you have a 'but corbyn' post a few minutes into a thread about something else, and then the same thing happening to the next created thread and so on..well its..I don't know the word to actualy put here.

But TLDR; I think that would annoy people much more. And would not stop them feeling 'censored'.

That's a fair point actually. But then often it's those pointless posts which descend into a side-debate/argument which then derail the whole thread, as is what happened a couple of weeks ago with the thread Toy Soldier, Kizzy and Livia were involved in (sorry I cba to go and find it). He was brought up, the bickering began, TS suggested the thread be recreated so both the Corbyn and original debate could continue and even Kizzy - the Corbyn supporter - disagreed!

You know me, I have very little issue with people discussing whatever they like, but I do agree that when almost every thread in this section is taken off-topic it's annoying as hell. So I just think it'd be better that if the bickering and mudslinging begins, it's moved to a big thread where they can all continue until they're blue in the face, while everyone else can get back to the topic at hand.

You wouldn't be censoring them, they could still continue their discussion about how and why Corbyn is somehow related to the original topic, but it wouldn't be derailing the debate in the original thread itself.