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Originally Posted by Pturner
Many have stated that members who don't like the Poli Forum should not go there. I think the argument that hey, it is opt-in so what's the problem, belies one of the problems with the Poli forum.
Maybe the reason members who don't like what they find there venture in because they too would be interested in participating in a TOTV Poli forum. Maybe they try participating, get insulted and ganged up upon by yes, a clique, and then give up. Maybe others who would love to offer their perspective venture in, see the lay of the land, and then don't dare ever post, or just don't want to converse with people who belittle those with whom they disagree.
This argument that if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen gives the Poli Forum almost exclusively over to the few dominators and schoolyard bullies who can gleefully continue to run off or turn off new participants. Maybe a forum in which only about a dozen of the 25,000 TOTV members post regularly is not worth the time and effort it takes to moderate.
Maybe the new owner is the sort of gentleman who just doesn't want to sponsor barroom brawls.
Some say have rules but don't moderate. That has been tried.
The wild west, no modding approach would reward bullying and in effect, provide a political forum in which a few who are hostile to opposing viewpoints thrives and everyone else either leaves in disgust, or fails to speak up because they don't want to participate in a spit fest. Maybe such a forum disenfranchises more members than it enfranchise. Maybe that's why only about a dozen TOTV members out of 25,000 regularly posts in the Poli Forum.
Maybe it looks like with 370-plus posts on this thread, there is too much interest to close political. Look again. More than half of all of the posts in this thread were posted by just 10 people.
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Wonderful post and brave woman to post it. I never never saw so much out of context and baiting and bullying in my life. By the way, times have changed, there is a real movement to stop bulling now. Whole programs are in every school. Kids were taking their lives who were the targets of bullies.
People are afraid to post on this thread. And by the way, all I posted was the Admin had a right and a reason for closing the Political. I never said it affected me like Barefoot implied. I remember Poli well before the opt in. There was a reason it was closed.
Many don't go into political because they remember those days. When I know there is a bad part of a city, I don't have to go in that part of the city to see if I get shot. When I know there are people calling names and ganging up on postes, I don't have to opt in to see if I will get called names. But I sure saw it in this thread.
So get this straight, I don't CARE if you have Poli
or not but I sure think it is the Admin right to close it. I said before that I would be stoned over and over by the same dominators. It proved so true. One poster on this thread has over 30 posts or more and I make one post and he/she is on me like flies on fly paper. He/She twists what everyone says and baits, bullies and twists some more. I bet this same posters could be with me in a club or any face to face and be the nicest person.
So why I started this post, Putner, I think you are the BEST. You are always so nice to everybody.(like Gracie) Thanks for an excellent post.
So glad it is close to midnight.
