also rob is gay and reax is a sockfucker.
in all seriousness though, I am fully capable of participating in a reasonable debate with anyone. generally I give someone the time of day if I respect them enough to do so. putting mem on ignore or editing
into adler's posts implies I do not - in my personal opinion they should either completely overhaul just about everything about themselves or fuck right off these boards. if I want to talk to someone I do. if I don't it's because I see no point in showing them respect they have neither merited nor reciprocated.
reax is a horrible little bastard troll whose place in hell was assured years ago. he is also, at times, this place's most important quality-control device. this is not a place you join to have your ego stroked, and I don't believe, rob, that you have ever stated that it should be. I do believe
most posters (see previous paragraph) should be accorded
some modicum of respect and decorum - except of course in the OT forum - but we can't go coddling every thin-skinned attention-whoring little... well, pcg who posts here. sorry, couldn't think of a better term. rex sets the tone for discussion in most forums; whether that's a good or a bad thing is entirely subjective. should he tone it down a bit sometimes? possibly. but every castle needs a bridge troll to discourage unwelcome guests, and adsense revenue aside you can't tell me in all honesty that
everyone who turns up on here has been welcomed.
this board has evolved over time, and there are a number of selective mechanisms in place governing the trajectory of its evolution. the politics forum has taken on a life of its own, for better or for worse, and it is what it is. people will always piss and moan when they sense that not as many people share their personal perspectives as they like, and some people will
never be content with the 'alignment' of the politics board either because they loathe exerting the intellectual effort to progress beyond stage 1 thinking or simply because they're
so far out to one extreme or the other that no one else is even close to sharing their views. just as with reax, whether you like him or despise him, g-man is a vital part of this place because he keeps people talking, which last I checked was the point of this place. does he have bias? hell yes he does - it's just that he doesn't share the
same bias as many of his detractors. he's not perfect by a long shot, but then again it's far from a gathering of model citizens in there anyway. everyone contributes
something - doc, pro, perkins, even posters people bitch about like basams or jla or even myself, we all pitch in something of value from time to time. it may not be pretty or inviting by any means, but things
do get discussed.
as far as the conduct in the other forums (besides OT which is a foregone conclusion), you're gob, you make the rules. if you say 'hey cut that shit out lololbathoganwii' we stop. usually. sometimes. if someone is taking politics into forums where it doesn't belong (which I agree is a serious problem) then mods need to step in and say 'gtfo dumas' or whatever. this place is whatever we make it into, but it's entirely within your right to whip out rob's rape rod when someone gets too unruly, I suppose.
