Poll: Should Political Topics Be Disallowed At Gmc? |
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Poll: Should Political Topics Be Disallowed At Gmc? |
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Oct 29 2016, 05:42 PM |
I'm not 'voting' in this poll but I will say this ...
When they are started with the intention to be provocative and inflammatory, then yes. *Love ya crsn but man you like to stir the shit. This post has been edited by klasaine: Oct 29 2016, 05:46 PM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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Oct 29 2016, 09:19 PM |
Personally I don't think any legal subject should be banned from GMC. Yes there are other forums that are dedicated to any subject but it's good to have healthy debate amongst friends.
The only thing that should be banned is personal attacks, name calling etc. The right to swing your fists, stops where the other person's nose begins! Discussing politics does nothing to help anyone excel at playing guitar so why do we need those types of discussions here? Rich, the Chill Out Zone is an off topic board Phil This post has been edited by Phil66: Oct 29 2016, 09:22 PM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Oct 29 2016, 11:06 PM |
I think civilized discussions about touchy topics does nothing but strengthen our community! I also think that many tragedies of the past would have been avoided if there had been an open discussion around them. Yeah, as i said, healthy debate is good, you just have to be pragmatic. I never get involved in politics. I know what I want and why but, I don't need to argue about it. Phil -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Oct 30 2016, 12:29 AM |
If it's some inflammatory, poorly sourced, clearly biased, youtube video, fringe blog repost, twitter rantish thing, etc. then it probably has NO PLACE here @ GMC where we try to encourage an atmosphere of fellowship and NOT something adversarial. Yeah, we can dance around it and pretend the issue is whether political threads should be allowed, but, just like Ken says, what you've described is really the issue here. I'd like to be able to say "hey if you don't like a thread, ignore it". But the fact is this forum is only as good as the posts members put here. The threads that start with a random inflammatory youtube video can, and do, change this forum into an ugly place that is not fun to visit. My heart sinks when I visit GMC and see a thread like that at the top of the recent posts list. I know it has changed my perception of GMC for the worse. -------------------- Cyber-industrial music and video animations:
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Oct 30 2016, 10:46 PM |
But doesn't it offer you comfort that people you like and trust, get to respond to these posts? Kris, you're asking us what we think of trolling . Trust me, if there is one thing to be learned from the internet, it's this: trolling is a bad thing on a forum . -------------------- Cyber-industrial music and video animations:
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