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Charlie Prime
Paranormal Adept
Han makes good points.
In the 1990's I owned a motorcycle forum and a martial arts forum. I love throwing my political ideas into the merciless crucible of public dissection to test if they stand, or get crushed, but I realized most people do not.
My solution was to create a sub-forum called "The Political Hell-Hole" that:
* was visible to only registered members (not guests).
* required 100 posts elsewhere to participate in.
* did not display posts when users clicked the "show new posts" function.
It mostly ran well, and didn't burden me. My only prohibition was against "drive-by posting", ie. posting articles or tracts and then refusing to respond to criticism of them. I did have to ban a few people who began using that sub-forum as a graffiti wall, refusing to respond to other users' criticisms of their proselytizing.
A political sub-forum can be arranged that does not consume very much Administrator time or hammer the database.
It makes a handy place to chuck threads that go sideways without having to delete them, or offend sensitive user egos.
In the 1990's I owned a motorcycle forum and a martial arts forum. I love throwing my political ideas into the merciless crucible of public dissection to test if they stand, or get crushed, but I realized most people do not.
My solution was to create a sub-forum called "The Political Hell-Hole" that:
* was visible to only registered members (not guests).
* required 100 posts elsewhere to participate in.
* did not display posts when users clicked the "show new posts" function.
It mostly ran well, and didn't burden me. My only prohibition was against "drive-by posting", ie. posting articles or tracts and then refusing to respond to criticism of them. I did have to ban a few people who began using that sub-forum as a graffiti wall, refusing to respond to other users' criticisms of their proselytizing.
A political sub-forum can be arranged that does not consume very much Administrator time or hammer the database.
It makes a handy place to chuck threads that go sideways without having to delete them, or offend sensitive user egos.
Charlie Prime
Paranormal Adept
P.S. - The best motorcycles come from Germany. The best martial arts come from Brazil.
Anybody who sez different is a looney-toons fool.
Anybody who sez different is a looney-toons fool.
Italian and Korean. And to think I thought you was smart.P.S. - The best motorcycles come from Germany. The best martial arts come from Brazil.
Anybody who sez different is a looney-toons fool.