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Originally Posted by ijusluvit
You had to be here to see what the political forum became before it was discontinued. There were some nasty, very personal attacks and lots of 'shooting from the hip'. The administrators tried to keep things civil, as they do with the entire forum, but I can see where the political threads required intense almost around the clock supervision. When you own such an enterprise and have to spend so much time monitoring one area, I think it's easy to see why the decision was made to close the political forum.
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Yes, it probably is better that the political forum is off the air. There was an uber-conservative bloc known as "The Six-PAC" who would tear down any poster not in their way of thinking. There was a much smaller liberal bloc who was the target of the Six PAC. Every topic basically led to name calling and got real nasty. Some people could not take the heat - others got "their jollies" by being as nasty as allowable.
It was interesting to hear all the viewpoints but most were just regurgitation of what was on FOX News or MSNBC or very liberal or very conservative web blogs.
I did make a few good friends from the "other side" and outside of politics, we are good buddies. Others did not want to meet but that is their right and no grudge was ever held by anyone.
Anyhow, those days are over - civility rules again in the land.
