Why is the Food for Thought thread locked? It really doesn’t make sense, particularly since it’s in the off topic section! I was enjoying the read, and was about to comment on some of it…
Since the thread is highly anti-bush, some might view it as a conspiracy to lock it 
Cas said it all.
I didn’t even bothered checking that thread before, because it was about politics and I know how that stuff always ends. History repeats itself all over again.
Let’s just keep the forum as techy as it is. Some silly jokes here and there, but no politics, no religion and uhm… no sex (remember that pre marriage sex is bad discussion? Please not again ::)).
well, the forum shouldn’t be called off topic then - it should be called Silly Jokes…
Off topic is for anything that isn’t game related - be it politics, rants or religious stuff. It’s the flamefest sub section - and IMO should only ever be moderated if contains advertising or someone invokes Godwin’s Law.
it should be called Silly Jokes
So… there is only tech, religion, politics and sex? 
meh?
the subforum Off Topic should be called Silly Jokes - all the other subforums are ofcourse unaffected.
Should have been: " So… there is only tech, religion, politics, sex and silly jokes?"
I mean there a heaps of other things you can talk about without summoning the flame demons. Like… movies, music, anime… your life… luck/bad luck… moving… that kind of things.
Oh and of course talking about the lockage of doomed threads 
I’m with Matzon on this one.
As long as it doesn’t get out of hand, it doesn’t need to be locked. As far as I could tell, the discussion didn’t get out of hand (the obvious differences in pov aside).
Oh I dunno, I couldn’t see it staying on the rails much longer with DP and SP beginning to get a bit nasty at each other. I’ve seen it a thousand times if I’ve seen it once…
Cas
i agree.
We were 2 posts from the first mention of Hitler I reckon…
Sorry, but that’s too important to remain silent.
[quote]History repeats itself all over again.
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[quote]We were 2 posts from the first mention of Hitler I reckon…
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… when it is put into perspective, mentioning Hitler isn’t bad at all. Many people know what he did, but few know how something like this could happen in the first place. History must not repeat itself when it comes down to such an issue. Therefore Malohkan’s quote should be taken seriously and should have a chance of beeing discussed!
Don’t forget and don’t ignore - even (or especially) when it is not that easy to deal with…
Just my opinion,
gismo
[quote]Let’s just keep the forum as techy as it is.
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100% agreed.
After all, this is Java gaming forum. If some people want to publish/discuss their brillant political wisdom and truisms, they could easily join one of those milliard (billion in US-english) forums offering right this, where all those clever virtual statesmen stay all day.
I already lose many interesting technical articles because of the unfortunatey “view last 10 articles” function (hurray: soon we’ll get a new forum!), so I’m really glad when these ten aren’t wasted with ever-repeating babble.
So, thanks to the Mods for locking that thread.
[quote]Oh I dunno, I couldn’t see it staying on the rails much longer with DP and SP beginning to get a bit nasty at each other. I’ve seen it a thousand times if I’ve seen it once…
Cas
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I agree in principal, but I would like to point out that I wasn’t attempting in the slightest to “get nasty” (that sounds so dirty )
But unfortunately it is hard to communicate that effectively in this medium. So many emotional cues and body language things are missing that it can be easy to get the wrong impression from the text.
That’s probably reason enough to steer clear of such topics. I’ll be better, I promise
After I ‘mummed’ myself the second time, I stopped reading that thread. It seemed to have lost most of its purpose and its pretty easy to figure out the difference between someone who is open to changing their opinions and one who is not.
After skimming this, I read backwards on the locked thread. It ceartainly seemed to have turned into a bash fest, flame war, I’m right, you’re stupid, kinda thingy.
The other thing is like it or not, these forums aren’t ours. They are provided to us. The mods can lock all the threads if they want, its their perogative. It wouldn’t make good PR for them, but there’s nothing illegal about it. And it wouldn’t matter what the threads were called.
[quote] Since the thread is highly anti-bush, some might view it as a conspiracy to lock it
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Matzon pointed out exactly the problem with politics and such - its about views. We could cook up some thing about how the mods here are all secretly ultra conservative and want women to lose their voting rights, because they locked the Anti-Bush thread. And if they didn’t respond, it would proove our case. Even if they did respond, we wouldn’t believe them anyway, because we had already made our minds up.
Dr. A>
I fully support the modertors for closing political threads. They are just no good for anyone.
I liked the discussion, I thought it was very interesting. Besides, as that subject is important to me, I like being able to talk about it with a forum that I know has smart people in it I don’t chose to talk about it in any other forum because in general people aren’t able to give intellectual responses.
I also think the thread didn’t get out of hand.
It should have been locked and you are a fool and a tree hugger if you feel differently!
In all seriousness, this is a privately run forum and we have to respect the decision of the moderators. If they don’t want political discussions dominating a forum, I don’t blame them.
ahh yeah, good point. In that case I’m fine with the decision
Hey, how come when I say its a private forum you don’t say you agree, but when mMonkey says it, you do? :-[
Sigh…I guess it always boils down to its not what you say, its how you say it.
Dr. A>
[quote]In all seriousness, this is a privately run forum and we have to respect the decision of the moderators. If they don’t want political discussions dominating a forum, I don’t blame them.
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Fair enough, but locking a thread without giving a cause is looking for trouble.
[quote]The mods can lock all the threads if they want, its their perogative.
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Can we, really? You think we’d get away with it? /me cackles evilly