TTAC Flames Suppressed-Politics as Usual?
The Truth About Cars wasn’t founded for the discussion of partisan politics. Thanks to the Motown Meltdown bailout buffet, it just turned out that way. While the intersection of automobiles and ideology has become both inevitable and unavoidable, the discussions centering on political ideology have recently spun OOC. In certain threads, we’re seeing the same endless rounds of right/left blunderbuss action. Even worse, it’s become nasty. As I was away from my desk for 35 seconds yesterday, I missed the onset of the flame wars and, thus, failed to extinguish them. By the time a couple of our Best and Brightest sent a heads-up email, more than a couple of commentators were burning down the house. This morning, I’m in retroactive delete and warn mode. TTAC’s flaming rule is simple: no flaming the website, its authors or fellow commentators. The corollary is this: please keep it as car-related as possible. If you can’t work your way back to the words “and that’s why I’m a Porsche/Corvette/Nissan/Ferrari guy,” you’ve probably gone too far.
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@ Ronnie Schreiber: Your original post characterizing one of the participants was spot on! More generally, I have remarked to RF at least once that I would love to have the politics toned down, too. And that's why I am a BMW guy....
agenthex> The reason for the min/max word postings are: If you have 800 words, I'd rather read/skip it as an article posted to ttac. If you have less than say an-arbitrarly-low-number-f words, you are probably trolling. I think everyone should have "1 post" to make their point and/or beliefs known as opposed to going back & forth saying the same thing over & over again. I really think this would bring higher quality posting to ttac.
I suppose another suggestion might be adding the equivalent of a "killfile" (who remembers this from newsgroups?) that is on a per login basis.