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Originally Posted by Supple Cow
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Well, I'm not a mod, but I know what I meant when I said the things I did in the "What Happened to TFP?" thread. I suggested that the regulars in here try and leave a little more room for other modes of discourse......
.....I am telling you that I don't see why it is so hard to let some people make a few more ill-supported posts in here to get their bearings or just to express something about which they KNOW (i.e. ngdawg and NJ) without getting a new asshole ripped by the whole Politics circus? I am not saying that you, roachboy alone, are the entire Politics circus and that you, roachboy alone, make this environment hostile. Please do not take it that way. I am asking you to tell me why it has to be mutually exlusive that Politics have space for the current regulars (or simply yourself, if you prefer that question) and newcomers who don't know about or have some trouble adhering strictly to the rules on their first few go-arounds?
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Supple Cow,
I reacted to what I observed as an "official" defense (preservation)of an obvious troll thread, that was formed in the context of this insult by this thread's author, that I covered in my last post:
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That says a lot about the Politics forum and the people who frequent it.
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The taunting post directed at roachboy, after he posted similar points, triggered my last post. That taunt, IMO, would have been inappropriate if it had come from an ordianry member.
I posted in the context of my experience here....check this list of politics threads that I have authored, look at the last post in each of the threads with the "locked" symbol, and draw your own conclusions. Additionally, consider the thread titled, "The giant merged Karl Rove thread" that was authored by me as two threads, and then combined and re-titled without any prior communication with me:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/search.php?searchid=686656
Consider the circumstances of the last thread that I authored here that was closed, just the other day:
My point Supple Cow, is that some of us who participate here regularly, have paid a higher price, in terms of criticism and harrassment, as a direct result of our participation, than anyone who you think may be discouraged from participating here for the first time, will ever experience. To observe now, that an obvious troll thread, created by someone who has made the comments that this thread's author has made, is "officially" supported, complete with taunts directed at roachboy, because he objected to the motivation of the thread's author, and the subject and content of the OP, is quite a disturbing development to observe.