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I'll probably get deleted for this, but I'm going to say it anyway (sm)

Posted: Nov 10, 2012

Do you people who frequent this politics board know how lucky you are to be able to express your thoughts on politics? Not mentioning any names of the political MT forum where I usually hang, but if the kind of behavior that went on here, went on over there, there would be no one left to post. Y'all act like a bunch of babies. It is possible to disagree without insulting each other left and right just because of what party you are affiliated with, then running to the principal when someone insults you. I wonder what the average age is here, but I'd be willing to bet it's over 5. If I was the moderator of this board, I would have already shut it down. There, I've had my say.

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Good post. Being a moderator is a tough job. sm - anon

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Been there...done that! I am one of the administrators on a forum (not MT-related, nonprofit) and we actually had to close down our Politics section during the last presidential election because of all the hate. It actually tore our forum apart and we lost a lot of good people due to the bickering and threats and nasty emails from people posting in the politics section. We actually had to permanently ban some of them. Four years later, they are still trying to get back in. It is just nuts out there. Perfectly sane, caring people go crazy when it comes to politics. We all run that forum out of the goodness of our hearts, to help each other, and don't accept any advertising. Didn't need the aggravation, so we just shut down any new posting on our Politics section. Peace everyone!

I agree with above poster - you wrote a good post - anonytoo

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As the above poster I too used to be a moderator a long long time ago (seems like centuries). While some people are happy that name calling and stuff is deleted when you actually have to delete a post you get replied with "negativity" to put it mildly.

About 2 years ago or so (after I gave up moderator job) I would get into some heated discussions with another poster. Won't say who was with which side, but boy did we argue. We never once called each other names, told each other their opinion didn't matter, their links were not valid, none of what goes on today.

That is what is great about this country. We do have the freedoms to express how we feel about politics or anything for that matter. There are many countries where you are not allowed to say what you want,so when I read posts here calling people names because they disagree with one of their posts, I think why don't you just move to one of the other countries where differences are not allowed and people can turn in other people and have them arrested and jailed because they shared a difference of opinion. I always think, okay, so you don't want the opposing party to have a say in anything or voice their disagreements, what if it was on the other shoe and was happening to you.

So in amongst the bickering there are some really good posts. Now if posters would just accept that not everyone will always agree and that there are some valid links and articles out there that will not always have the main stream media's logo on the story, but the story is true.

I do have to tell you all a funny story...I read news sites (of which I will not name here because I have in the past and got knocked down for it, I'll just say this site had not come up in months and months). Anyway...when I did post a news story from it I was told that's a conspiracy theory, that website is a blog (which it wasn't), this that this that, you can't trust them, just a lunch of kooks, etc, etc. It got quite nasty I asked the moderator to remove my post. Then about a week or so later the same news story, same words, etc were on CNN and people were posting great things about the story.

So I just hope the newest moderator can get the board back to what it is for. People need to just know that not everyone will always agree with you. Don't mean you are right and they are wrong, it's all perspective. Give the moderators a break too. There are tons of messages to read and they don't get paid.

Above and over all, remember you are lucky to live in a country that allows you the freedom to write or say what you want.

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