Politics In Forums

February 8th, 2005, 7:28 pm

do you guys think that politics in forums can get too messy?i have started to try it, the board on my forum is currently locked but alot of people are anxious to start posting, on a general community things could possibly get bad...


anyone have experience with this?

February 8th, 2005, 7:33 pm

depends on the forum, depends on the people, no one answer. Personally I am all about the politics and other such touchy subjects. Some of the people I like most are directly opposite in opinion, but because we don't take it personally. we can have a friendly-yet-heated debate. Sometimes on a board you can do that. If people are mature, can take a joke sometimes, and do not consider it the be all and end all of their existence, there's no reason it can't go well (although if I see ONE more war in Iraq thread anywhere I think I will explode). If your board tends to be full of young and immature people, they tend to have fits over nothing (because HEAVEN FORBID someone challenged their little uninformed opinion) and it's really not worth the try.

But if you want to try it, go ahead - you're bound to determine within a thread or two whether it will be worth it or not on any particular forum.

February 8th, 2005, 7:38 pm

ic... there are some youngsters in my forums, around the age of 15 since its for a gaming clan so i will make sure that they understand what needs to be done.. if they cant handle it, it will either go private or be taken down...

[SpooF]

February 8th, 2005, 7:40 pm

well considering that this forum in general has people from all over the world its hard to, and sometime it starts fights and gets iratating.

February 8th, 2005, 8:46 pm

If you have a politics section its best to have a seperate lot of rules for it.
As long as people actualy debate politics and not just use it as a grandstand to preach thier views it should be a good thing.
Politics effects us all so discussions about it should be encouraged.

February 8th, 2005, 9:17 pm

I have a political forum, and I have found that some people would rather hurl nasty insults at each other than debate politics. In general, it's harder to have debates through text based forums because your particular emotions can not always be portrayed through an emoticon. Therefore, if you say something as a lighthearted joke for instance, the other side may become violently offended. Despite that, as long as you have your forum rules layed out clearly, and you enforce them 100% of the time, you can actually have a good time debating.

[ATNO/TW]

February 8th, 2005, 9:25 pm

3 things you don't discuss at a bar....sex, religion and politics. What makes a forum any different?

February 8th, 2005, 9:29 pm

well, for starters, you don't go into a forum expecting everyone to be a drunk, desperate, single, middle-aged male.

[ATNO/TW]

February 8th, 2005, 9:35 pm

Dubya wrote:

well, for starters, you don't go into a forum expecting everyone to be a drunk, desperate, single, middle-aged male.

Are you sure?

[SpooF]

February 8th, 2005, 9:40 pm

drunk, desperate, single, middle-aged male

He desperate, single,lower than middle-aged male,

we hope hes not drunk though...

im guessing 1/5 of this forum fits the desperate, single,lower than middle-aged male,(meaning teens)

February 8th, 2005, 10:53 pm

ATNO/TW wrote:

3 things you don't discuss at a bar....sex, religion and politics. What makes a forum any different?

I agree.

February 8th, 2005, 11:31 pm

SpooF wrote:

drunk, desperate, single, middle-aged male

He desperate, single,lower than middle-aged male,

we hope hes not drunk though...

im guessing 1/5 of this forum fits the desperate, single,lower than middle-aged male,(meaning teens)

If I understood what you were saying, then I could say whether I agree or disagree.

February 10th, 2005, 3:42 pm

at a forum, when you offend people they only throw virtual punches and glasses.

And no sex talk at a bar? Is this an amish bar or something?

February 10th, 2005, 10:38 pm

haha, amish bar. Anyways, I find that most people (adults or teens) aren't mature enough to talk about politics without too much of an argument breaking out where instead of debating politics, people just start bashing each other which is fairly pointless (although entertaining.)

February 14th, 2005, 4:32 am

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