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Posted by: burritosenior
Posted by: xLAS3RP01NT3Rx
I understand the Achronos bit, but answer me this:
How is MLP or abortion or evolution any more relevant to the website than politics?
I can assure you nothing good comes from any of those threads either.
Politics is simply against the rules because Achronos wants it to be, but it isn't special.Is MLP the My Little Pony thing? It's an off-topic forum, mate. You can discuss that. That isn't a bad topic. It isn't a taboo topic. You might as well ask what more do eagles have to do with the website. Nothing. But they're off topic and not 'bad.'What does "bad topic" mean?
Look, if politics is a "bad topic," so is abortion, and so is evolution. They're all the same in terms of response, which is the only possible reason to disallow political discussion in the first place.
If you're saying it's "bad" because it's against the rules, that would be circular logic.
You can't say politics is bad and against the rules because it's against the rules.
Similarly, you can't say political discussion is bad because Achronos says it is.The others? Because when the staff tried listing everything against the rules, people would just find loopholes. So now they have rules and leave things up to the moderator's judgment. Recon 54 participates in those other threads sometimes in the hope of having actual discussion.Why doesn't that include politics? Because Achronos says so? The threads aren't in themselves bad.Again, what does "bad" mean, and why is "bad" against the rules?
Political discussion, however, is not relevant to this website nor wanted in the public forums. Xbox discussion is completely relevant to this website and welcome in the public forums.All of this is subjective, and I never mentioned Xbox discussion.
This is my argument: there is absolutely no reason to ban political discussion other than "it usually turns into a flame war," which is hardly relevant when certain topics present every day, such as abortion, evolution, the troops, and MLP, do the same and are NOT banned.
I don't have anything against, "Achronos just doesn't like it," but there's really nothing particularly special about politics (such as being highly opinionated or provocative) that isn't present in other topics to a greater degree.
Posted by: American Recoil
Politics can be a sensitive topic to some. It simply leads to unnecessary arguments which leads to name-calling, extreme usage of the -blam!- filter, and ultimately, the derailment of a thread. Some members just can't handle it.The same can be said of topics involving disrespect to the troops, religion, or evolution.
Posted by: Ktan Dantaktee
Same reason religious discussion isn't allowed:
Idiots.Idiots are not exclusive to religion and politics.
@Duardo: That's nice, but it doesn't have to do with politics, unless you mean to say that political discussion is comparable to that of religion because they both deal with faith and in-disprovable beliefs- opinions, essentially.
If an opinion is, "a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty," I would say political and religious discussions do revolve solely around opinions. This alone cannot be the reason the subjects are banned, but the general lack of tolerance for opinions usually found in the threads cannot be the reason either, as this is not exclusive to political and religious discussion.
TL;DR: Politics and religion, as far as I can work out, are banned because they usually follow a certain pattern. Because other subjects follow the same pattern but are often allowed to carry on unhindered, I feel like I'm missing something.
[Edited on 08.27.2011 9:37 PM PDT]