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Offline Ender

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Lack of interesting threads / Reinstate Politics
« on: April 29, 2010, 11:59:49 pm »
There are no more interesting threads on this forum. We need a politics / international news forum. We need to reinstate it. Reinstate politics! What else are we going to talk about?

I mean seriously. We all have pretty divergent interests right now. Politics is the one thing that could revive activity...

If we had good moderators, then we could create good discussion. I volunteer myself as a moderator. I understand that my history of trolling here would make me an undesirable candidate to many. However, to allay these fears, I submit myself to a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to the evaluation of my moderation - the first time I "troll" or abuse privileges, it is to be understood that the admins will strip my privileges.

What will be my strategy in moderation? I will only move posts to the trash can if they contain ad hominem attacks, personal insults, or trolling. If a post is mostly substantive, but meets the above criteria in small portion, I will send a PM warning the poster to edit out the offending portion, or else I will do it for him.

I will not trash a post if it is inane, though I may respectfully point out that it is inane in a reply to that post. As I said, I will only trash posts if they meet the criteria I stated above.

So - may we please reinstate the politics board? And may I please be moderator, under the conditions stated?
« Last Edit: April 30, 2010, 12:09:37 am by Ender »

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Re: Lack of interesting threads / Reinstate Politics
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2010, 08:34:34 am »
Politics was nothing but crap at the best of times. What's the old saying, "one should never discuss politics in polite company"?

Anyway, there are lots of other potential discussions to have. I know people still read this forum, they just aren't posting because there aren't a lot of new threads to post in. So come up with topics! :)

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Re: Lack of interesting threads / Reinstate Politics
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2010, 11:20:33 am »
I didn't like it before because it always amounted to a warrior/crazed epeen contest.  I don't think I'd mind it if it was back again, although I can't say I'd post in it.

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Re: Lack of interesting threads / Reinstate Politics
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2010, 12:16:30 am »
We'd need to hire outside consultants to review all the posts.

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Re: Lack of interesting threads / Reinstate Politics
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2010, 06:11:13 pm »
Topics:  AZ immigration, Boobquake, NYC failed car bomb, Southpark & Muhammad.

I alone could triple the daily post count, haha.

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Re: Lack of interesting threads / Reinstate Politics
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2010, 06:17:01 pm »
Southpark & Muhammad.
Already covered.

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Re: Lack of interesting threads / Reinstate Politics
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2010, 07:10:36 pm »
Topics:  AZ immigration, Boobquake, NYC failed car bomb, Southpark & Muhammad.

I alone could triple the daily post count, haha.
I don't mean to be a downer, but your quantity-over-quality, epeen-driven-posts were one of the biggest problems, aside from Warrior's.
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Re: Lack of interesting threads / Reinstate Politics
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2010, 06:51:09 pm »
Southpark & Muhammad.
Already covered.

Well damn
Topics:  AZ immigration, Boobquake, NYC failed car bomb, Southpark & Muhammad.

I alone could triple the daily post count, haha.
I don't mean to be a downer, but your quantity-over-quality, epeen-driven-posts were one of the biggest problems, aside from Warrior's.
pssht, I could've done better

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