Question

[Del Murder]

I think the drunk tank has become the unofficial temp ban here. It's been used a couple times.

[-N-]

I'm growing a beard. I hope it'll be like RSL's one day.

[Shlup]

Should be used more. It pleases me.

[eestlinc]

we give everyone a place to discuss politics because lots of people want to discuss politics. We keep it separate and strictly run in order to keep it somewhat civil. If you can't keep it civil you lose the priviledge of discussing in that forum. That's the way it is. We've discussed it at length both amongst the staff as well as in various feedback threads. The way we run EotW is based on stare decisis. It's settled. Maybe someday we will come to a wholesale reëvaluation of the policy and precedent will be overturned. If that happens, we'll let you know. You can continue to bring new arguments into feedback, that's one reason it's here, but it will take a lot to overturn the precedent we've established.

[Hawkeye]

"No General Chat for me"

How that would kill some people

[eestlinc]

we just ban those people, or take away usernotes.

[theundeadhero]

I think the difference is that the political threads in General Chat turned serious. I don't think The Damn Yankee Land was meant to be serious but that's the way the posts fell out. If it had stayed light-hearted I'm sure it would have stayed open and things would be all pretty, but it didn't. Perhaps the proper thing to do woud have been to move it into the World Events forum instead of closing it, that would have put it in it's place and kept the "banned" people from posting in them, but it's too late for that now. The spam in it would have gotten it closed in World Events anyway.

The Yankees continued thread closed because that's the way of GC. If any type of thread is closed and someone makes a new one to continue it, they always get closed.

The republicans thread seemed closed as a show of force from the staff to me, but not in a bad way. The other thread was closed and if the staff let that one go it would have shown inconsistency in the staffs moderating decisions. It was closed to show that the staff was serious about the decision and the issue shouldn't be pushed any farther.

[Yamaneko]

I haven't read all of this thread, but I know people are complaining about something or other. I will say this: we will not change for you.

[Agent Proto]

I agree with Unne. EoTW was created basically to divide the political/current events from the more personal threads from EoEO, because at the time, those kind of threads tend to stray and turn into flame-fests, because a lot of people don't know how to debate properly and turn to arguing each other.

As for this sudden new rule, which says that "political threads belong in EoTW," I don't really care. I think it's appropriate, because a lot of time, those kind of threads, when not heavily moderated, can and will turn into a flamefest. *shrugs*