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Can We Get the Politics Forum Back, Pretty Please?

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by Derwood, Aug 11, 2011.

  1. Derwood

    Derwood Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Columbus, OH
    I know we're supposed to have "X number of discussions first" for a forum to reappear, but "Tilted Exhibition" has 4 discussions and no posts for several days. There may not be 30 different political threads, but the threads that do exist (racism/sexism, debt ceiling, etc.) have dozens of posts.

    Perhaps there would be more political posts if there was a forum first....
     
  2. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

    Location:
    Earth
    Yeah, if I can't get a Block User feature, can we at least get Tilted Politics to house the crazies?
     
  3. EyeSeePeeDude

    EyeSeePeeDude Getting Tilted

    Location:
    Nellis AFB
    /starts a filibuster/
     
  4. the_jazz

    the_jazz Accused old lady puncher

    It's on the to-do list. And comparing TE to anything else on this board isn't something that's going to credit your argument in any way.

    Give it a day or two.
     
  5. Derwood

    Derwood Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Columbus, OH
    Awesome thanks

    How so? I can only go on what the stated rules of how new forums are formed are.

    Will do
     
  6. the_jazz

    the_jazz Accused old lady puncher

    Because we're very protective of TE and enforce the rules in entirely different ways. It exists with entirely different rules than the rest of TFP - i.e. negative comments will cost you your access as will asking for more - and we're less likely to give access to folks and quicker to take it away.

    I'll try to get to it this afternoon, but no promises.
     
  7. Lordeden

    Lordeden Part of the Problem

    Location:
    Redneckhell, NC
    Wait..... There is TE here? Where the fuck is that? People keep talking about these sub-forums I can't see.

    *sniff* I thought I was a beautiful and unique snowflake?
     
  8. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

    Location:
    Earth
    It's okay, Snowflake... I can't see it either. But one day I'll be a big boy and reveal my smoothspot to the whole Internets!
     
  9. roachboy

    roachboy Very Tilted

    interesting, mister 9.

    you indulge your weapons eccentricities relatively undisturbed and unremarked upon but somehow think it's ok to take potshots at politics whenever the change presents itself.

    grow up.

    jesus.
     
  10. Lordeden

    Lordeden Part of the Problem

    Location:
    Redneckhell, NC
    Apparently, I've been signed up for a TE post when cinn and I lose weight. I can't think of a single person who wants to see a hobbit naked (besides cinn).

    *****

    Now roachboy, we all know that there are more flames/insults in one "How is obama doing"/"My opinion about (blank) is always right" thread than all of tilted BANGBANG combined.

    We have had this conversation before about the posters in TP. People who post normally elsewhere will drop an insult in a second if it's in Tilted Cesspool. This is why I ignore anything politic related on the board.
     
  11. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

    Location:
    Earth
    Scathing. Don't be such a sourpuss. We can't see it beneath the beard, anyway.

    I indulge in my weapon eccentricities relatively undisturbed and unremarked upon because nobody over in ivory tower land can be bothered to argue 9mm vs. .45 intelligently.

    Which, at the core, is basically the same masturbatory argument that you all punch the clown to in Tilted Politics, lofty insults flying like vocabulary-heavy hooligans.

    My one liner above was clearly a joke.

    Lighten up.

    Jesus.
     
  12. Derwood

    Derwood Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Columbus, OH
    Please keep your petty bickering out of my campaign thread, thanks
     
  13. the_jazz

    the_jazz Accused old lady puncher

    I can't be bothered to read this because of your Exhibition comment. ;)

    Seriously, working on it now.
     
  14. Saltpork

    Saltpork New Member

    Plan9 that reply made me choke on my drink. Thanks, I needed that.
     
  15. Derwood

    Derwood Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Columbus, OH
    FWIW, I wasn't bagging on TE, just stating my confusion about why it existed when the "rules" said it shouldn't
     
  16. roachboy

    roachboy Very Tilted

    that was a joke in the sense that carrot top is a comedian.
     
  17. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    Derwood I'm happy to open the forum. It's ready and waiting. The last time I counted there only 5 threads that were pure politics. I think I could have extended it up to 7 if I really stretched it.

    Create threads in GD and when it hits 8-10 I'm happy to make the forum available.

    Really, make threads, start discussions, don't worry about the forums, worry about the discussions. If the discussions don't continue to happen the forum gets folded back into GD. I don't want to keep a forum around just because it keeps things "organized."
     
  18. Derwood

    Derwood Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Columbus, OH
    I'm just saying that it works both ways, in that once you establish a forum for Politics, it will encourage more threads to be made. I think it was pretty clear at TFP 4.0 that the forum's existence was justified
     
  19. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    In this incarnation of TFP no forum was justified. That's not true creating a demanded by the community both a pets and classifieds forum did not encourage more participation in those forums.

    I take that back, I used weapons to model for access. Right now there are 3 posts there. If it doesn't get more discussion I'm going to fold it into something else to keep the forum more trafficked. I've already got something in mind which I'll implement at the end of the month if it doesn't get more activity.

    This is the rationale for putting the Politics folded into Politics, Philosophy, Economics. They are all complimentary to some degree and overlap in many ways.
     
  20. Derwood

    Derwood Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Columbus, OH
    Having a Politics/Philosophy/Econ forum would be great