political label

[swayside]

the topic "political and social reasons for hentai" and others like it(i'm sure most of you have seen some) are getting quite annoying. it's like people think anything is a political topic. by the same logic i could post, "the politics of walking funny" or, "social reasons for potato eyes". i hate these poeple. such topics should be locked.

[swayside]

At 3/22/03 01:09 PM, flamewolf wrote: yup

i guess there wasn't much else you could say. looking at this topic again, i guess it didn't leave much room for discussion.

thanks for your concurance.

[NoNameProphet]

At 3/22/03 01:03 PM, swayside wrote: the topic "political and social reasons for hentai" and others like it(i'm sure most of you have seen some) are getting quite annoying. it's like people think anything is a political topic. by the same logic i could post, "the politics of walking funny" or, "social reasons for potato eyes". i hate these poeple. such topics should be locked

Pfft. Don't get so pissy over it. I already knew what you're saying, but sometimes I choose certain words for topics just to grab the attention of certain people. And if you actually read the post you'd understand that there is much speak of social/economic developments of US and Japan... but of course you prefer harsh judgement without giving something a proper look over. Assumptions have uses, but this isn't one of them.

[Ted-Easton]

The Politics forum is not, and is not meant to be purely political. It is meant as a place of intelligent discussion. If we sometimes go off of even that a bit, we deserve some leeway because we've earned it.
We can, and do, discuss everything of interest, politics just happens to be a large part of it.

[mysecondstar]

At 3/22/03 02:34 PM, Ted_Easton wrote: The Politics forum is not, and is not meant to be purely political. It is meant as a place of intelligent discussion. If we sometimes go off of even that a bit, we deserve some leeway because we've earned it.
We can, and do, discuss everything of interest, politics just happens to be a large part of it.

i absolutely agree. you can only go so far posting things like that in the general forums without getting flamed to a crisp. at least if you bring it into the politics forum, you could get an intelligent discussion out of it. plus Freakapotimus is pretty leniant about some of the threads on this forum ie. The Regulars Lounge, and the like. so far it isn't being abused so we get to keep it.

[Der-Ubermensch]

At 3/22/03 02:34 PM, Ted_Easton wrote: The Politics forum is not, and is not meant to be purely political. It is meant as a place of intelligent discussion. If we sometimes go off of even that a bit, we deserve some leeway because we've earned it.
We can, and do, discuss everything of interest, politics just happens to be a large part of it.

Nicely put; the politics forum is the general gathering place for those users of NG who have an IQ higher than 100. Its a shame though that some amoung us would have its content reduced to the banter of faux intellectuals regarding regurgitated topics and views.

[NoNameProphet]

At 3/22/03 02:47 PM, Ruination wrote:

At 3/22/03 02:34 PM, Ted_Easton wrote: The Politics forum is not, and is not meant to be purely political. It is meant as a place of intelligent discussion. If we sometimes go off of even that a bit, we deserve some leeway because we've earned it.
We can, and do, discuss everything of interest, politics just happens to be a large part of it.

Wow, thanks for the bit of support there people..

Nicely put; the politics forum is the general gathering place for those users of NG who have an IQ higher than 100. Its a shame though that some amoung us would have its content reduced to the banter of faux intellectuals regarding regurgitated topics and views.

Yeah. Topics are getting regurgitated, but part of it is because history repeats itself. The other part is that life repeats itself. There are constantly new people being brought into the political fray, and they often come in with the same questions as those before; which often calls for old answers. And ancient knowledge likes to preserve itself. It enjoys its regurgitation =P