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Poll: Should all political threads be merged into one?

Should all political threads be merged into one super thread?

  • Yes: Merge all current and future political threads into one super thread.

    Votes: 20 47.6%
  • No: I like it the way it is, no change.

    Votes: 22 52.4%

  • Total voters
    42
  • Poll closed .

lol.

Malachi 3:6

gg
 
It's an election year and we are on the back end of labor, political threads will pop up. I doubt we will have many new threads after September.

With Abbott as PM there will many new threads if I have anything to do with it
 
I havn't, as yet the time to read the last few pages of this thread, but I like the crypto commo socialist theme of the title.
... well now I have and would like to make the change to 'crypto commo National socialist', theme of the title.
 
+10. How hard would that be!
So someone on that forum is not deemed to have a valid opinion unless they have been a member for six months?
I don't quite see the logic in that. We have had many new members come onto ASF and put up really interesting views, viz Some Dude. Then for whatever reason, probably irritation at the unnecessarily aggressive responses, they just go away again.

There are many people on this forum who have been members for some years, yet their contributions are not ipso facto valuable. I just don't see the connection with time served and capacity to make valid contributions.

I know what you mean about civil responses. I'm a member of a NZ forum which covers investment, property, politics etc. Any aggressive or rude comments are jumped on immediately and as a consequence members contribute in a useful and civil way.
Hence my suggestion earlier that general threads be moderated similarly to the way stocks threads are.
 
So someone on that forum is not deemed to have a valid opinion unless they have been a member for six months?
I don't quite see the logic in that.

Not at all. The reasoning is that people should come to the site to discuss travel rather than to discuss politics. The site was sold a few years ago and the new owners opened up those previously locked forums and a fair few trolls appeared. It's closed again now. It's a significantly bigger website (it actually has a board of members and elections) so the ban on newbies in the lounge probably makes it easier to moderate as well.
 
The first few political topics have had their threads consolidated.

The Australian Greens party

I haven't started a specific State Greens party discussion as the debate tends to be focused at the federal level. If someone would like to start one with an opinion or an interesting article please feel free to do so.

Kevin Rudd

I haven't merged threads with polls or threads where Rudd is not the focus of discussion even though his surname is in the thread title. I have also left a few threads that I feel should be kept separate for their archival or reference value, such as the Rudd election victory thread.


Barack Obama!


I will start working on other topics this week.
 
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