[JimJohnson]

Originally Posted by Jazuela

This is a slippery slope. Often here on this forum, I see questioned posed as innocent inquiries about this or that topic - but they, and everyone else, knows that the answer to the question involves politics that aren't allowed on the forum.

So they bounce around the topic, edging close to that line between "allowed" and "verbotten" and it serves to irritate pretty much everyone, because they know they can't REALLY answer the question.

Members do this on purpose. To see who will cross that line. Maybe hoping to get someone banned, maybe just so they can call that person out in the future as "one of THOSE people who believe [insert belief here]."

If we can't talk about politics, then all discussions about anything political should be not allowed. That would include announcements of political figures coming to visit. They can find that information out on the Daily Sun, the Vi11age-News, the Ocala rag, the Leesburg weekly, and everywhere else that has local political news.

Complaining about the traffic caused by a [insert candidate] 2020 club golf cart parade, or a [insert candidate]2020 picket party, is just a poor disguise for a post daring and double-daring people to post political responses.

So we either stop it ALL - or we provide a place for it and enforce it. You want to talk about the condition of the Sharon, when you went to see you know who? Then put it in the political forum. Otherwise, leave who you saw out of the post. His existence had nothing to do with the condition of the Sharon.

That is an example I made up to demonstrate what I mean by disguising political talk with seemingly innocent posts. You don't care about the condition of the sharon. You just want to make sure everyone knows you went to see you-know-who.

If you could go back several years, there was a small group of posters that dominated the “P” forum that seemed to be dedicated to only allow a very narrow opinion as to what was acceptable. Please, don’t reopen that wound.