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All the rules are open to interpretation by the moderators, if all the rules were strictly enforced to the letter then every post that's shorter than a paragraph would be banned for spam, I mean what could you say in one sentence that really contributes to the thread?
If I said that I was 5' 3 and turns out I was 5' 4, lying ban.
If I said "I think that happened on a thursday" and it happened on a friday, misleading information ban.
If I said "That's stupid" in reply to someone's post, flaming ban.
The thing with Religious/Political threads, it's all up to the moderators on duty, if they think the thread is ok then they can leave it alone.
The decision to lock a Political/Religious thread isn't "Is this political or religious enough?", it's "How likely is this topic to start a religious/political flame war?" and "How is the conversation proceeding so far?" if the thread had already gotten going.
I mean if I start a thread discussing evolution should it be locked? It's just discussing a scientific theory, it's not really directly religious, there's nothing really wrong with it's existance. But lets say I made the same thread with something along the lines of "I don't think there's a logical person who wouldn't believe in evolution, ha they'd probably believe in a little man in the sky that makes everything magically appear", that would be a thread that needed locking, even though it's on exactly the same issue.
Everything could be considered against the rules if you interpret them in a certain way and everything could be considered religious/political if you put it in a certain context.
Not everything that can fall under a violation of a certain rule should get acted upon, moderators should use their better judgement when it is and when it isn't appropriate to lock a thread, ban someone.
I'm not saying that that thread shouldn't be locked, just that not every rule breaking should be met with immediate action and that not every rule is as black and white as "Political/Not Political".
And thinking about it, if it was you should be banned right now, I mean you're discussing what defines a political thread are you not? So you're essentially discussing politics.
[Edited on 08.09.2011 9:27 AM PDT]