Suitable topics for discussion?

[3irty1]

I think given a little bit of time, the thread would have recovered. Even among the politically motivated posts, people were responding to the football issues. After a few blew off steam about the nature of the NLRB, and others blew off steam about those who blew off steam, I think the college football issues would have prevailed.

But, now I know how to get a thread banished just for the heck of it....Hmmm, isn't there a rumor about Favre running for dog-catcher? Probably akin to the corruption in the ranks of county sheriffs. If I start that discussion in the Favre thread.......................................!!

There is no need to socially engineer a thread to get political when pictures of dicks will suffice.

[mraynrand]

There is no need to socially engineer a thread to get political when pictures of dicks will suffice.

Banned!

[pbmax]

I think given a little bit of time, the thread would have recovered. Even among the politically motivated posts, people were responding to the football issues. After a few blew off steam about the nature of the NLRB, and others blew off steam about those who blew off steam, I think the college football issues would have prevailed.

But, now I know how to get a thread banished just for the heck of it....Hmmm, isn't there a rumor about Favre running for dog-catcher? Probably akin to the corruption in the ranks of county sheriffs. If I start that discussion in the Favre thread.......................................!!

I agree. The topic itself obviously belongs here. Its the mod's call, but I would prefer surgical extraction of the lunacy, and by that I expect each of my comments that weren't germane to the topic would have been fair game to cut.

[3irty1]

I agree. The topic itself obviously belongs here. Its the mod's call, but I would prefer surgical extraction of the lunacy, and by that I expect each of my comments that weren't germane to the topic would have been fair game to cut.

I don't think its worth it to open the door to censorship. That's always been the best thing about this site.

[Guiness]

The discussion definitely went sideways when it turned to whether the decision would be over-turned or not, and Obama got brought up. I was enjoying it until then, it was an interesting discussion about the directions this sort of thing could take the college game.

[MadtownPacker]

I didn't see the mess but how about we just prune the bullshit and leave it? Some thread yesterday had bobble and fritz starting that route. I deleted the individual post and left it.

[MadtownPacker]

Or maybe it was the overreaction to the overreaction?

This is the same problem we had with people like Partial before. You could have a discussion that might get heated or contentious or that deals with (gasp) political or social ramifications, but then you get one person, or two, who go all over the top, both those arguing politics and those screaming like a fucking girl scout seeing a video of ejaculation for the first time at the mention of politics, and asswipes like Zool end the discussion instead of dealing with any breaking of the mythological rules by a particular poster.

In this case, the fact is the NLRB, no matter who's appointees, is a highly politicized entity, which has only become more extreme in recent years, and as such, their decisions are mostly political theater and fiat policy advancement instead of judgements of fact, evidence, precedent, contract, or law. So either some folks need to put on their big boy pants and learn to discuss those aspects without acting angry or screechy or pouty, and our mod slave-masters will have to learn an iota of tolerance, or I would suggest waiting until the case in heard in a court (probably in front a politicized judge, but what are you going to do?) to begin an honest discussion based on judicial evidence, contracts, and law instead.

Some people here just can't act like adults, and our moderators have fostered their intolerant screeching over the years, so unfortunately I don't see other topics relating to the NLRB and unions turning out much different.

This whore has a point. This is a valid football topic. Just cuz you step on a pile of dog shit on your lawn doesn't mean you have to tear out the whole yard. We can do the same here by just scooping the poop.

But the dog who keep shitting on the grass does need to be punished.

[pbmax]

I don't think its worth it to open the door to censorship. That's always been the best thing about this site.

I take the point, but its hard to call it censorship when two clicks on the same site you can post whatever comment you might like to with almost no limit.

Otherwise pictures of Dick's Sporting Goods get the thread in the Witness Protection Program.

[MadtownPacker]

I would rather see Jane Sporting her Goods.

[3irty1]

You can just delete the offending comments to save the thread but that still doesn't seem as good as a mob-justice-based solution. Breaking the rules should be its own punishment because this is a community.

Either Patler is right and the thread recovers and the collective memory of Packer Rats puts some guys on douche watch, or we just lock the thread to get everyones attention and remind them of the rules we came to as a community. Yes people will bitch at the mods but like 90% of a mod's job description is to get bitched at. Only someone who loves themselves and hates themselves like Zool can do it.

Censorship should be a last resort and when it takes place the post should be replaced with a description/explanation instead of deleted.

[bobblehead]

That was was my plan but it's impossible to keep everyone happy because everyone here is right 100% of the time. Trying to keep some semblance of order apparently makes me an asshole to some people and Hitler to others.

Just to clear up your error, I am the only poster who is right 100% of the time....therefore your error makes sense I guess.

[bobblehead]

I didn't see the mess but how about we just prune the bullshit and leave it? Some thread yesterday had bobble and fritz starting that route. I deleted the individual post and left it.

Hmmm....I never noticed, and I don't even recall it. I guess I don't "categorize" my views...or my minorities.

[3irty1]

^^^ Boom right there is a perfect example. Bobblehead doesn't even know he did anything wrong because someone deleted whatever he said, striking it from public record. Had it been replaced with an explanation from Mad, or possibly even an MS paint picture of bobblehead and Fritz taking a shit on the thread... people would learn from their mistakes.

[mraynrand]

I don't think its worth it to open the door to censorship. That's always been the best thing about this site.

I think there are some posts where you can do this (the obscenity-laden name calling can just be expunged). Other websites will simply break off a portion of the thread to go into another forum. That works pretty well most of the time, unless it's sort of metastatic cancer.

Problem with that strategy on this site is that FYI is a little too histrionic and some people who could make reasonable arguments in there hate it so much as to not even try.

[mraynrand]

^^^ Boom right there is a perfect example. Bobblehead doesn't even know he did anything wrong because someone deleted whatever he said, striking it from public record. Had it been replaced with an explanation from Mad, or possibly even an MS paint picture of bobblehead and Fritz taking a shit on the thread... people would learn from their mistakes.

If I still had my photo bucket account, I would post Justin Harrell dumping in the laundry basket.