Thread: General Chat - Politcal?

Originally Posted by vnx205

......Expecting the mods to enforce a policy so that everyone will be happy is unrealistic. It might be easy for them to make you happy by deleting a particular post, but it is almost certain that the deletion will make someone else unhappy.

Enforcing rules in a black and white world may be easy, but in the real world where most things are a shade of grey it is a thankless task. Of course there are some blatantly political or provocative threads, but they are greatly outnumbered by the posts that are borderline. Whatever decision the mods make, there will be someone upset......

I have the deepest of sympathy for the mods who attempt to keep the place in order, because there are so many different opinions (and some very strong opinions!) with so many thousands of users, it certainly isn't possible to please everyone all of the time.

That said, there have been a couple of discussions on here that had the main protagonists been my two kids, they would have had a slapped backside and banished to their beds.

Originally Posted by Ferret

This thread reads like those threads people are complaining about. That's my opinion.

you noticed that also Ferret,
anyone here got a 4wd , maybe a Land Rover or a Discovery even .

Hmmm let's see what pieces of policy have shorten and his party IMPLEMENTED that have had an effect on us lately? Ohhh that's right their not in power. When they were we talked carb tax, mining tax and border protection. Now we talk Holden-gone, Toyota- wobbling, SPC- threatened , Rio tinto and aluminum etc ohh and border boats. it's called current news.
As to Hinch that has no political attachments, just long term law issues and for some a personality clash.
Previously a post was put forward and people looked, mostly at the facts. Now a post is put forward and because of certain catch cry's the real issues/facts are ignored even when the same political party is arguing against itself

No one forces me to read any thread.
I open the browser and new threads appear.
More commonly now a quick look confirms another Political view point topic, which is generally ignored.
As a contributor and subscriber the regularity of the above is disappointing.

As previously noted by others.... why did some join? other than to post endless ramblings and links to stories and political spin, IRELEVANT to LR and 4wd's.

Funny, if I subscribe to, or switch on Fox Sports, I expect to see Sports and sports related stories, editorials and news.
The subscriptions and audience would fall away quite quickly the moment someone thought the audience should here about political topics.

I subscribe and visit AULRO for all manner if Land Rover related trivia, technical and general information.
But the usual suspects believe I should expect their opinion on world politics and events to be there also despite it having no relevance to the forum and further espouse that any disagreeable comment or objection is due to a lack of education, racism or phobia.

I don't need to guess how the usual posters of political viewpoints would react if anyone visited their Left, Right, Extremist shrine websites and started posting their consistent unsolicited viewpoints on Land Rovers or any other 4wd.
The reaction so far is proof enough.

It's 4wd website people and a very good one without the self appointed keepers of Religion, Politics and thought police constantly pushing political topics.

What happened? Did they get rolled on the political websites, hence the need to have a crack here?

Originally Posted by nugge t

I agree although I think there should be a seperate section for those who want to talk about a leftist agenda. That way you dont have to try to avoid threads, you can avoid the sction. I for one would be happy to avoid it rather than have it rammed down my throat in General Chat.

I might just point out that it is called General Chat, not Leftie Love In Corner.

The people starting the threads seem to have plenty to discuss going by the number of threads started so they should be able to keep a seperate section going without any trouble.

That way if someone goes there that doesn't agree with the content, they can not complain about the content.

Weren't you recently demanding that people avoid any posts you made if they didn't like what you had to say? You can do the same here I think.

Originally Posted by alittlebitconcerned

Weren't you recently demanding that people avoid any posts you made if they didn't like what you had to say? You can do the same here I think.

Single posts incidental to a thread are easily ignored, but new threads that are constantly cluttering up the new posts are another thing.

Originally Posted by alittlebitconcerned

Weren't you recently demanding that people avoid any posts you made if they didn't like what you had to say? You can do the same here I think.

Whoops
Unreserved apology to Nugge t for that comment.
I got it completely wrong and was thinking of someone else's post.

Originally Posted by alittlebitconcerned

Weren't you recently demanding that people avoid any posts you made if they didn't like what you had to say? You can do the same here I think.

You are a bit confused between posts and threads. The topic here is the starting of threads which are essentially the same as ones previously started.

I happily invite you or anyone else so inclined to have a wonder through the General Chat and count how many threads I have started in the last month, 3 months, 6 months what ever. I assume you are concerned in fair reporting so whilst having a look, I am sure you will record those politcal posts started by others and report that as well.

My guess will be something along the lines of

nugget 0

usual suspects abacus broke ubnder the strain