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Maybe someone can enlighten me.

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Congrats and I feel ya. The current state of the country has stolen most of my joy.

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So what was my infraction. Maybe it was empathizing with another member?

Hurry though. This won't last long either.

secretguy
hifiguy42
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@devinplombier, agreed!

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mdalton
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@devinplombier 

But the issue remains, how do we want to handle it?  Under the current rules, if two or more posters have a reasonably polite political discussion, that’s allowed within the posted rules.  If they resort to name-calling and other personal invective, the moderators can and should shut that down, and that too is within the rules.  But to preemptively remove a post because somebody somewhere might disagree with an expressed sentiment, that is not within the rules (other that the catchall part that says moderators can do whatever they want when they want), and more importantly, seems completely unnecessary, bordering on nanny-statism.

cleeds
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mdalton

... the issue remains, how do we want to handle it? ...

I’m not sure that there is any issue at all, except perhaps for the few that want to be able to discuss politics here.

To the extent that some feel there’s an issue, I’m fine with letting the moderators continue to manage the posts here. They seem to be doing a fine job.

kennyc
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+1 @devinplombier 

Seems best to avoid minefields 😉

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mdalton
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@cleeds 

You just continue to miss the point, though I’m sure it’s inadvertent.  I’ve shown how political discourse is happening on this site.  I’ve shown how inconsistent moderator actions are.  All I’m suggesting is if we don’t want politics, let’s make it clear, and let’s enforce it consistently.  And I would be happy to take a stab at drafting language that facilitates our intent.  I don’t see how that’s controversial in the least, unless somebody just wants to disagree to disagree.

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