My last gasp on this...since I've been referenced a few times as a major culprit/cause of any/all off-base political discourse here....and you (stupidly) asked......LOL.
FWIW....I was a mod during the time period when H had yet to decide to set a solid policy about the issue and things were waving back and forth between "no politics" and a total political shitfest. The request was made more than once by multiple mods to take a firm stance....yet no changes were made. The talk @ the time was far more involved/disrespectful then than it ever is now. Combine that fluctuating policy with any lack of real guidance or support to control any of it...and a small group of very, very prolific posters who said/did whatever they pleased...and I guarantee you would have been overwhelmed/hating it here...and...like now...dealing with...WHAT??? oh my...2 whole posts that have gone awry in the last month...would also be threatening/deleting the posts YOU felt were just stirring shit. (very telling of you, BTW
@treefarmercharlie) .
I'm not gonna tell you how to mod...but fuck me...at least be consistent. joebuds thread got...what? This post is different...how? It's certainly your call but telling us there's no politics and then spending paragraphs talking about political figures to make YOUR "point" about how others were talking about politics....um....was informative...but it wasn't at all consistent with "no politics" if that's truly the current policy here. Silence is acceptance. Acceptance brings allowance.
I may call someone on the hill a clown...and shoot back when I see blatant political comments made from the same poster here that are routinely ignored unless I do cross the line and force some kind of action/reaction...but I don't say that kind of shit in my personal life or spend anytime whatsoever pointing fingers/telling others how fucked up/lazy/etc others are @ damn near chance I have to do so like happens here. "Political" or "well crafted"....talkin' about women on WIC misusing benefits to get weed when there's no proof given to back up the statement that anything of the sort is happening in real life...or saying "Gubmint" time and time again ...are both childish/divisive statements that have nothing to do with this site. Others see it as well. It's been such an ongoing topic that a couple of folks reminded me today how they reported such BS years ago to H before/during the time I was mod ....and how overwhelmingly detrimental they felt it was for a site like this because they knew it had driven some good folks away over the years.
But hey...it was a "well crafted" driving away...so there is that.
I've done all I can via the site's features to avoid it @ this point. Others told me they have done the same thing. Hopefully that will reduce some of the intense load/strain yer under here.