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Originally Posted by ubertuber
Ustwo and politico -
Don't get me wrong. I'd definitely agree strongly that there are points in this forum in which you can't discuss rationally any longer. However, this is a discussion forum... If you can't discuss, don't - or maybe say that you'd like to discuss but you just don't know how... My point is simply that I'd like to see more respect shown to views that you (and here I mean you inclusive of all sides and all posters) don't understand. I'll say again, this place is intended to be more of a discussion forum than a debate arena. There are no victors - it's not like we close threads when one side wins... I know we'll hardly ever all end up agreeing, but I'd like to see us at least consider all points of view. There has been a nice discussion about open mindedness in one of the other threads (I've forgotten which), and people have said that it is possible to be open minded without being weak or wishy-washy. Personally speaking, that's what I'd like to see more of here.
I'd like for Tilted Politics to be more similar to the rest of TFP than it is to other political sites on the web...
I appreciate the thoughts that everyone has posted so far. Please keep them coming...
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Then honestly what you need to do as moderators is continue to move those points of view which can not be rationaly discussed to the forum where it belongs and operates on a 'lower' standard of logic.
I know this has been done to a good degree, but what politics has become is slightly better than parinoia. And when someone drops a giant pink whale in a thread, its hard to get back to the thread and ignore the whale.
Here is an example of a potential good TFP politics topic "Hilary Clinton, can she win in 2008?"
Here is an example of a bad TFP poltics topic "Is Bush a plant" (two points for the title though)
These types of posts and posters tend to push the already minority 'right' posters on this board away. Points of view can be different but we need a point where we say 'ok, thats nuts.'
Hell I'd like to see a lot more peoples thoughts and why they feel that way instead of needed to cut and paste a link from a website.