Discuss: Harsher rules on non-gaming threads

[FentonCrackshell]

bdbdbd said:

FentonCrackshell said:
To be honest, I don't understand why people bring their politics into a video games website. You wanna discuss politics then there are a great many sites you can visit. Video game discussions themselves can create tension so why add politics into the mix? I'd never want to suppress anyone's opinion but it just seems like vgchartz isn't the best place to air your political grievances.

For one, videogame websites are nice and civil places to discuss politics. And a forum like this having people all around the world, can give you lots of different views you may have never thought of and you get to know politics in different parts of the world. Some people may be interested in discussing more mature topics than videogames. Then there's people that are everywhere just for the sake of spreading their political views.

If you understand why to discuss any non-game related topic on a videogames website, it shouldn't be hard to understand why people discuss politics on the same sites.

To an extent I can see why this holds true. But this site isn't the only site that serves a multitude of peoples from many nations. I don't really mind the political threads as I can usually tell the tone of the argument from the heading itself. But there are some users who solely post political threads on this site. Why do to a gaming site and never talk about gaming? That makes no sense to me. But I'd never want to suppress anyone's opinion and it sounds like that's what I'm trying to infer. There's nothing I hate more than when I go to a website and see "this comment has been moderated" in place of the actual comment posted. If you think it's so bad leave it up there for all to see. I never report anyone's comments on anything. No matter how reprehensible I think it is.