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Originally Posted by coffeebean
IMHO, TOTV should have a political forum. Enter at your own risk and let the vitriol fly. Why not? Moderators need not bother to monitor. You do not have to enter if you don't want to.
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I disagree, for the reasons I recall existed when there used to be a political forum. As I understand it, people started getting personal and threats were made.
Also, I disagree because we are humans. We are curious creatures. We are the species that will slow down when we're driving past a horrendous 5-car pileup on the highway, just to see if we can see anyone dead on the ground. Not because we actually care - but because we have that morbid curiosity. Other species don't do that.
As a species with morbid curiosity, it's inevitable that some of us will wander into a political forum just to see what it looks like in there. Sadly - you can't UNread a post.
There are new forum members all the time, and some of them might think "hey - Seniors, how bad can it possibly be? We're all adults here." They would be horribly wrong. But they wouldn't know that until they saw for themselves. And then - it would be too late.