New member-only political subforum - FHOPolitics- read here to join

Re: member-only political subforum - FHOPolitics

Totally agree!
And I am glad to see respected members like F8L to voice his objection. Lock political discussion into private room makes no sense at all. The reasonings OP stated are not logical. They don't need to make it private to separate political threads from Prius related ones. They can exclude those posts from the search result easily.

I sense another force at play. Toyota? Big brother? I don't know. But I am sure Danny did not give tell us the complete story.

Although I might qualify, but I am not interested and I am certainly will not feel privileged to be the member of that "elite club".

 

Thanks, Allen. To think I may be respected makes me smile but I think I am tolerated more than respected. Right, Tony?

 

Private dining? Far from it. 'Food fight' would be a more apt description. I can't shed any light on why you're still waiting to be seated, but trust me, the food is terrible, and it's more likely to be flung at you than served with a smile. Followed closely by the plate. :fear: Wild animals have better table manners.

Indeed. We should all be thankful that such nastiness is confined to a private back room, and kept out of sight.

Ah, the good old days. In light of what's transpired since, Squid wasn't really so bad, was he?

Don't kid yourself. Respected is correct. It's smart asses like me who are 'tolerated'.

 

That's OK.
Those pancakes probably aren't any better than the ones here in the public dining area.

I got over it pretty quickly....

EDIT....Curiosity did compel me to giggle the doorknob again....just to make sure it was still locked....

 

You're no smart nice person. I think Tom takes that title!

 

I'm confused. Wait, maybe I'm not...

I am not now (but may have once been) a member of FHoPol (yes, Hyo, the current state of affairs does indeed make one miss Squid. Almost.) The issue on which I am unclear (ok, tonight's issue) is--if I am not a Pol group member, but I do subscribe to the digest for Pancakes, why are most of the threads apparently political? Do I need to unsubscribe from Pancakes digest? Is Pol seeping back into Pancakes (NASTY flavor, that). I've been away for nearly 2 years, and even then I wasn't posting regularly. Is this an artifact from the good old (moderated) days that I can somehow fix, or what???

 

That's a good question, but I'm not sure I'm able to give you a good answer, as I'm not entirely innocent myself. Those two infamous topics we're told never to discuss at the dinner table - politics and religion - seem to have seeped in like a slow poison. I feel for the moderators, who can't reasonably censure someone the instant they say 'Obama', or 'god bless'. Yet, conversations of a religious and political nature tend to devolve pretty quickly, so maybe a 'zero tolerance' policy is what's needed.

 

I operate a forum not quite as busy as PriusChat. It's the same everywhere. Over the years, a few of the same topics have been essentially banned. There is always a very small group of people who cannot hold a debate just by offering opinions, providing references, showing examples or the usual things you'd expect. Instead, every single time they had to resort to really generally nasty behavior and insist on having the last nasty comment on each thread so the threads keep going and going. To the point where our community discussion forum was absorbing nearly all the attention of all the moderators, who themselves became targets. Many other members simply stopped visiting.

Between the topic ban and a few von BanHammer bans, the community forums are a much nicer place, but also less interesting. Simply using BanHammer on members wasn't enough, as someone else would step in to take over where they left off. Censorship of any kind really sucks as a moderator, but it's just a fact of the internet, where many more people will say things in ways they would never do in person.

 

Priuschat has grown significantly over the years, and the burden of moderating it has presumably also increased significantly. Would it be reasonable to suggest that more moderators might be a good idea?

 

Tony, New sheriff gets to mod FHOPol?

 

That is unnecessary... it is an opt-in forum... if you choose to not join, you won't hear the crap... if you do join, don't expect everyone to agree with you and you'll be fine.

I for one appreciate Danny creating FHOPol... it makes visiting the rest of this site a pleasant time indeed.

 

Of course now I learn, whatever the hell I say in here don't count at all... sorta like being 3/5 of a person again... but hey... I ain't all white, so I'm used to being treated differently...

 

Of course, if membership is frozen to Politics - a notice would be nice.

 

You're asking to be admitted to the asylum? That's very unusual.

 

My request to join this forum has languished for quite a while. Can anyone check into it or is it not opened to new members?

 

I suggest you contact a moderator directly.