I'm not discussing politics here...
Sure you are. You started this thread complaining that BSAMS only sticked anti-Obama threads and that the forum is "a circle-jerk of bile" against the President. That's politics.
Social politics. The dressing of the issue IS political but the core issue I am addressing is about a message board forum. Sure it stems from political views different from my own being posted non-stop and the irritation that comes when trying to discuss anything else, but the issue I wanted to talk about mostly is how that forum no longer is a pleasant facility for open discussion.
Your complaint can't be that BSAMS stickies too many threads because, as I recall, when you WERE mod you had at least a half-dozen threads stickied.
Yeah, in the attempt to highlight as many perspectives as I could. And when complaint raised, I got the hint and changed. My complaint here is that the stickied threads are single-minded, only representing one viewpoint, and left up there no matter how often (or not) they are posted in.
Furthermore, your own biases affected which threads you stickied in 2008, insofar as you only stickied threads about those candidates you thought were worthy of attention.
...until you graciously made me a big ole thread with links to ALL of them, in which place I stickied THAT, said thanks, and removed the others. There were a shitload of candidates and I tried to keep a thread on the "bigger runners" in the pre-pre-election. Since you were one of the people bitching about the multitude of threads back then, I'm certain you can feel at least small pleasure knowing that I *could* have stickied even more threads.
I never claimed to be the best mod; I claimed to *try* to improve and reflect the people engaging in the forum's interests. I never was a mod before and there is a learning curve if one is to be an *active* moderator.
Finally, it should be noted that what finally set you off was when BSAMS criticized Obama for how he celebrated Father's Day. Maybe I'm wildly off base here but it seemed pretty clear that he did so wholly as a joke to tweak off MEM for starting a Father's Day thread in the politics forum in the first place.
Not really, that comment just reminded me of dozens of others (and I read through a handful of pages of threads last night to verify that I wasn't blowing out my ass), including the aforementioned incident with THE Franta. It wasn't the impetus so much as the forum in general was. It has been irking me any time I go in there, and last night I wasn't sleepy and honestly had nothing better to do than bitch about it. That is what "set me off."
