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Originally Posted by Lebell
Had you PM'd me, I would have told you that the key phrase is "a little" and that I was addressing something specific, not a general "dandy(ing) about", but you instead chose to throw out some public complaint that has nothing to do with the thread for some unknown reason.
I don't believe that an impartial outsider would come here and think that we stiffle conversation as much as a radical few insist.
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On the whole the mods do a great job of keeping things civil around here. If they didn't, the TFP wouldn't have so many active members running around, nor would it be the most flame-free place on the net.
Trouble is that unlike most other forums out there, you've got about a jillion users who will see it when you DO make a bad call. And if you make that bad call in the politics forum in the middle of a debate where passions flare (let's face it, you're gonna have hotter arguments in here than in Nonsense
), and one of the users that sees it has a bit of a tact problem, you're gonna catch hell.
Now IMO, the stay on topic warning in here was a bit unnecessary. The statement by Representative Freedom Fries (Fark gets credit for that nickname) IS another link in the chain of evidence that this war was a gross mistake, and it seems to me that there shouldn't be anything wrong with pointing that link out.
I could see it much better if it were, say, a prolife/prochoice debate and someone popped off with a "bush was wrong to go to war" crack, but in a topic that's discussing people's, in this case US lawmakers, disagreement with the justifications for the war, then why is there anything wrong with talking about those justifications?
All that said, the funding problems comment was WAY out of line. Any funding problems the forum has are caused by users who have no money, not the small percentage of the time moderators make bad calls.
Just IMO.