jcfuquette must go

[gandalf]

Yeah, I’m down with that. Toss the guy. He’s an ass.

Back to the bubble. Occasional discussion of politics is fine, it’s all good. The whole real-estate-economics-finance-gas-prices-taxes — it’s all kind of wound up in larger macro issues which include government, economics, policy and even foreign policy. Be respectful. Keep it level.

The partisan stuff really turns me off though. In fact, I’ve realized last couple of months, I HATE partisans, all these “Karl Rove” talking point types. Wrecking our country. Not putting up with it anymore.

That’s my 2c. Get rid of the guy. Get his MAC address and block him.

[gandalf]

brsharma, I stand corrected. You’re exactly right. Let ’em spew. It’s a free country. You’re exactly right.

It damages the signal-to-noise on Piggs though. It’s noise. Hurts the site, more noise for the rest of us.

I swear, I think the dude gets paid by the Repub party or something, planting messages everywhere. I bet if we did some research, he’d show up all over the net doing the same thing…

Good 4th and,
Best regards,
Gandalf

[gandalf]

brsharma, I stand corrected. You’re exactly right. Let ’em spew. It’s a free country. You’re exactly right.

It damages the signal-to-noise on Piggs though. It’s noise. Hurts the site, more noise for the rest of us.

I swear, I think the dude gets paid by the Repub party or something, planting messages everywhere. I bet if we did some research, he’d show up all over the net doing the same thing…

Good 4th and,
Best regards,
Gandalf

[gandalf]

brsharma, I stand corrected. You’re exactly right. Let ’em spew. It’s a free country. You’re exactly right.

It damages the signal-to-noise on Piggs though. It’s noise. Hurts the site, more noise for the rest of us.

I swear, I think the dude gets paid by the Repub party or something, planting messages everywhere. I bet if we did some research, he’d show up all over the net doing the same thing…

Good 4th and,
Best regards,
Gandalf

[gandalf]

brsharma, I stand corrected. You’re exactly right. Let ’em spew. It’s a free country. You’re exactly right.

It damages the signal-to-noise on Piggs though. It’s noise. Hurts the site, more noise for the rest of us.

I swear, I think the dude gets paid by the Repub party or something, planting messages everywhere. I bet if we did some research, he’d show up all over the net doing the same thing…

Good 4th and,
Best regards,
Gandalf

[gandalf]

brsharma, I stand corrected. You’re exactly right. Let ’em spew. It’s a free country. You’re exactly right.

It damages the signal-to-noise on Piggs though. It’s noise. Hurts the site, more noise for the rest of us.

I swear, I think the dude gets paid by the Repub party or something, planting messages everywhere. I bet if we did some research, he’d show up all over the net doing the same thing…

Good 4th and,
Best regards,
Gandalf

[Rich Toscano]

patb, I agree with you that these posts are lame and I am also pretty continually baffled as to why people want to get into political debates on this site when there are millions of sites solely devoted to that purpose.

However, it’s just not feasible for me to start tossing people because their posts are unpopular or off topic. There is after all an off topic forum, and that’s there because people have expressed to me that they like to discuss OT stuff sometimes. The amount of action that the OT forum gets is proof to some degree that people like having it.

If there is an off topic forum, I can’t go in and arbitrarily start bouncing people because they are “too” off topic. Those kind of constant interventions are precisely what I am trying to avoid because I just don’t have time to moderate the forum.

Now, I would actually get rid of the entire concept of the OT forum and make a house rule that posts should be topical, but only if a large majority of users wanted it that way. It has to be a large majority because the fact is that if you don’t like the OT stuff, you don’t have to read it. (FWIW I habitually ignore these political flamewar threads and many other OT threads as well).

So to sum up, the real question comes down to whether this is a housing-only forum or not. If you want to start a thread or poll on that debate, be my guest, and I am happy to conform to the will of the piggs. But it’s got to be either one of the two — off topic allowed or off topic prohibited — it’s really not feasible to enforce a middle ground. Thanks for your understanding.

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

patb, I agree with you that these posts are lame and I am also pretty continually baffled as to why people want to get into political debates on this site when there are millions of sites solely devoted to that purpose.

However, it’s just not feasible for me to start tossing people because their posts are unpopular or off topic. There is after all an off topic forum, and that’s there because people have expressed to me that they like to discuss OT stuff sometimes. The amount of action that the OT forum gets is proof to some degree that people like having it.

If there is an off topic forum, I can’t go in and arbitrarily start bouncing people because they are “too” off topic. Those kind of constant interventions are precisely what I am trying to avoid because I just don’t have time to moderate the forum.

Now, I would actually get rid of the entire concept of the OT forum and make a house rule that posts should be topical, but only if a large majority of users wanted it that way. It has to be a large majority because the fact is that if you don’t like the OT stuff, you don’t have to read it. (FWIW I habitually ignore these political flamewar threads and many other OT threads as well).

So to sum up, the real question comes down to whether this is a housing-only forum or not. If you want to start a thread or poll on that debate, be my guest, and I am happy to conform to the will of the piggs. But it’s got to be either one of the two — off topic allowed or off topic prohibited — it’s really not feasible to enforce a middle ground. Thanks for your understanding.

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

patb, I agree with you that these posts are lame and I am also pretty continually baffled as to why people want to get into political debates on this site when there are millions of sites solely devoted to that purpose.

However, it’s just not feasible for me to start tossing people because their posts are unpopular or off topic. There is after all an off topic forum, and that’s there because people have expressed to me that they like to discuss OT stuff sometimes. The amount of action that the OT forum gets is proof to some degree that people like having it.

If there is an off topic forum, I can’t go in and arbitrarily start bouncing people because they are “too” off topic. Those kind of constant interventions are precisely what I am trying to avoid because I just don’t have time to moderate the forum.

Now, I would actually get rid of the entire concept of the OT forum and make a house rule that posts should be topical, but only if a large majority of users wanted it that way. It has to be a large majority because the fact is that if you don’t like the OT stuff, you don’t have to read it. (FWIW I habitually ignore these political flamewar threads and many other OT threads as well).

So to sum up, the real question comes down to whether this is a housing-only forum or not. If you want to start a thread or poll on that debate, be my guest, and I am happy to conform to the will of the piggs. But it’s got to be either one of the two — off topic allowed or off topic prohibited — it’s really not feasible to enforce a middle ground. Thanks for your understanding.

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

patb, I agree with you that these posts are lame and I am also pretty continually baffled as to why people want to get into political debates on this site when there are millions of sites solely devoted to that purpose.

However, it’s just not feasible for me to start tossing people because their posts are unpopular or off topic. There is after all an off topic forum, and that’s there because people have expressed to me that they like to discuss OT stuff sometimes. The amount of action that the OT forum gets is proof to some degree that people like having it.

If there is an off topic forum, I can’t go in and arbitrarily start bouncing people because they are “too” off topic. Those kind of constant interventions are precisely what I am trying to avoid because I just don’t have time to moderate the forum.

Now, I would actually get rid of the entire concept of the OT forum and make a house rule that posts should be topical, but only if a large majority of users wanted it that way. It has to be a large majority because the fact is that if you don’t like the OT stuff, you don’t have to read it. (FWIW I habitually ignore these political flamewar threads and many other OT threads as well).

So to sum up, the real question comes down to whether this is a housing-only forum or not. If you want to start a thread or poll on that debate, be my guest, and I am happy to conform to the will of the piggs. But it’s got to be either one of the two — off topic allowed or off topic prohibited — it’s really not feasible to enforce a middle ground. Thanks for your understanding.

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

patb, I agree with you that these posts are lame and I am also pretty continually baffled as to why people want to get into political debates on this site when there are millions of sites solely devoted to that purpose.

However, it’s just not feasible for me to start tossing people because their posts are unpopular or off topic. There is after all an off topic forum, and that’s there because people have expressed to me that they like to discuss OT stuff sometimes. The amount of action that the OT forum gets is proof to some degree that people like having it.

If there is an off topic forum, I can’t go in and arbitrarily start bouncing people because they are “too” off topic. Those kind of constant interventions are precisely what I am trying to avoid because I just don’t have time to moderate the forum.

Now, I would actually get rid of the entire concept of the OT forum and make a house rule that posts should be topical, but only if a large majority of users wanted it that way. It has to be a large majority because the fact is that if you don’t like the OT stuff, you don’t have to read it. (FWIW I habitually ignore these political flamewar threads and many other OT threads as well).

So to sum up, the real question comes down to whether this is a housing-only forum or not. If you want to start a thread or poll on that debate, be my guest, and I am happy to conform to the will of the piggs. But it’s got to be either one of the two — off topic allowed or off topic prohibited — it’s really not feasible to enforce a middle ground. Thanks for your understanding.

Rich

[jficquette]

[quote=gandalf]Yeah, I’m down with that. Toss the guy. He’s an ass.

Back to the bubble. Occasional discussion of politics is fine, it’s all good. The whole real-estate-economics-finance-gas-prices-taxes — it’s all kind of wound up in larger macro issues which include government, economics, policy and even foreign policy. Be respectful. Keep it level.

The partisan stuff really turns me off though. In fact, I’ve realized last couple of months, I HATE partisans, all these “Karl Rove” talking point types. Wrecking our country. Not putting up with it anymore.

That’s my 2c. Get rid of the guy. Get his MAC address and block him.[/quote]

I am no more partisan then you are and unlike you I have information to back up what I post.

[jficquette]

[quote=gandalf]Yeah, I’m down with that. Toss the guy. He’s an ass.

Back to the bubble. Occasional discussion of politics is fine, it’s all good. The whole real-estate-economics-finance-gas-prices-taxes — it’s all kind of wound up in larger macro issues which include government, economics, policy and even foreign policy. Be respectful. Keep it level.

The partisan stuff really turns me off though. In fact, I’ve realized last couple of months, I HATE partisans, all these “Karl Rove” talking point types. Wrecking our country. Not putting up with it anymore.

That’s my 2c. Get rid of the guy. Get his MAC address and block him.[/quote]

I am no more partisan then you are and unlike you I have information to back up what I post.

[jficquette]

[quote=gandalf]Yeah, I’m down with that. Toss the guy. He’s an ass.

Back to the bubble. Occasional discussion of politics is fine, it’s all good. The whole real-estate-economics-finance-gas-prices-taxes — it’s all kind of wound up in larger macro issues which include government, economics, policy and even foreign policy. Be respectful. Keep it level.

The partisan stuff really turns me off though. In fact, I’ve realized last couple of months, I HATE partisans, all these “Karl Rove” talking point types. Wrecking our country. Not putting up with it anymore.

That’s my 2c. Get rid of the guy. Get his MAC address and block him.[/quote]

I am no more partisan then you are and unlike you I have information to back up what I post.

[jficquette]

[quote=gandalf]Yeah, I’m down with that. Toss the guy. He’s an ass.

Back to the bubble. Occasional discussion of politics is fine, it’s all good. The whole real-estate-economics-finance-gas-prices-taxes — it’s all kind of wound up in larger macro issues which include government, economics, policy and even foreign policy. Be respectful. Keep it level.

The partisan stuff really turns me off though. In fact, I’ve realized last couple of months, I HATE partisans, all these “Karl Rove” talking point types. Wrecking our country. Not putting up with it anymore.

That’s my 2c. Get rid of the guy. Get his MAC address and block him.[/quote]

I am no more partisan then you are and unlike you I have information to back up what I post.

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