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| ez24:
--- Quote from: Ian.M on July 09, 2016, 12:42:37 pm ---I'd nominate the Brexit thread for locking. --- End quote --- This was the first one I "ignored". Had to learn how to do it. Edit - But I would NOT ask to lock it. |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: Ian.M on July 09, 2016, 12:42:37 pm ---I'd nominate the Brexit thread for locking. I followed it for a while to see if anyone was going to post anything of interest and relevant for this forum, e.g. specific research or high-tech industries under threat due to Brexit. Although some interesting points have been made it has zero electronics content and close to zero technology content, and clearly breeches rule 5. --- End quote --- If you read the entirety of rule 5 it asks that things are kept on topic and warns users who come here solely to discuss politics and other controversial topics that they are not welcome. This is primarily an electronics forum but we do have a general chat section which is not meant for strictly electronic topics. The main objection to religious and political and conspiracy theory discussions is that they invariably get out of hand with a lot of mudslinging and it takes an awful lot of time and anguish sort things out. At the end of the day if you really don't like the damn thread don't read it as other rules say beings as you are so quick to quote them you have no right to be offended on this forum if you don't like it and is not directly insulting you then tough! I'm sure the EU exit thread is going around in circles in the same way in which the FTD I gate thread did and there was not a lot electronics discussion in that really it was more about morality ethics and the law and just repeated the same arguments over and over again every 10 to 20 pages until eventually everybody ran out of steam. The EU exit thread seem to be doing the same thing and believe it or not has received virtually no reports. In fact the vast majority of the reports about it have been from people who think they need to tell us that we need to close its or do other things with it. Nobody has offended anybody and people are being fairly civilised. If Dave wishes to close it then that is of course up to him it's his forum but it seems that some people here are trying to impose on others what they can and can't do despite the fact they have the 0 power. In fact the FTDI gate thread got more reports than the EU exit thread has. |
| Ian.M:
It seems to me that if one is going to have a rule like rule 5, one needs to enforce it as even-handedly as possible, especially with a current US presidential election campaign in progress. Every US election campaign, USENET got flooded with political spam and off-topic 'debate' in violation of individual group charters. Each time, knowledgeable regulars left for closely moderated fora and never returned. Most of USENET is now a wasteland. If the camel sticks its nose in the tent, the only sane response is to swat it not welcome the whole camel in. |
| Simon:
Well it's Dave's rules that are being broken not yours so I do not worry about it. As has been said throughout the rules are not harshly enforced as it is pointless being overly regimental. The whole point of the rules is to ensure we have something to fall back on to stop things getting out of control and that people know roughly where they stand. |
| zapta:
--- Quote from: ez24 on July 04, 2016, 08:27:41 pm ---In my case, I just learned to "ignore" the Brexit posts. So what I suggest to the moderators, when a complaint comes in on a political topic, post instructions on how to ignore the post and ignore the posts by setting your ignore button. Maybe less people will get upset if they know how to ignore the post (not easy to find out how). --- End quote --- How does one ignores topics? I couldn't figure it out myself. (for general knowledge, not for any current thread). |
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