Discuss: Harsher rules on non-gaming threads

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FentonCrackshell said:

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.

As I said, some people are everywhere doing nothing but spew their political bias. As long as the conversation is civil, on topic and not "hit and run" tactics, I don't really have issue with them.

Bandorr said:

So you mean you want to ban people from the forums? If you get banned for a political issue - you get banned from just the politics forum?

Wouldn't they then try to "force the issue" by making the same argument in regular forums?

After which they would get a general ban. At which point they will create fake accounts and do it all over again?

If someone is willing to make a fan account for getting banned - won't they do that no matter if it is a general ban, or a one forum ban?

The logic is, that some people can't have civil discussion on certain topics, while they can on others. I'm more frequent in gaming and Nintendo discussions, and see some people having harder time having a mature discussion in Nintendo area, that they do on gaming. Same goes for political views. And no doubt the situation isn't any different in different topics.

numberwang said:
One could consider deleting posts for using specific incendiary phrases like libtard, fascist, moron, Hitler-comparisons, idiot, commie etc. These terms never add meaningfully to any conversation and it would pacify the political threads.

Technically I could agree with some of your examples, but I definately wouldn't go on to ban actual political views, like faschism or national socialism any more than chauvinism or feminism.