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Originally Posted by AlexM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
To a point, Ron Paul fans have a right to post in this forum and share the news, and I'm willing to help them coexist. However, a moratorium on disagreement with Ron Paul is not going to happen. To the same extent that Ron Paul fans are allowed to post here, Ron Paul detractors are also allowed to vocalize their detraction.
I don't know what this means.
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Originally Posted by AlexM
So if someone says "Ron Paul is so cool", someone can respond with 50 posts about how he vacations to Alaska to club baby seals?
The purpose that OP
insidemanpoker created this thread is what he and I proposed in the main Dr.Paul thread -- a news only thread. Think of the main Dr.Paul thread as "New, Views, Gossip". And this thread as "News Only". The idea is so that the posters bringing the quality news content, like
Fermion5, can post that news here, and the people looking for news can have a clean read here without wading through the views and gossip over there.
Posting "RP is cool" isn't news, its a view. And speculating on his strategy isn't news, that's gossip. Posting either of those ITT is trolling flat out, as they are OT from the OP. And what
MrWookie is saying is that he might clean up a little around the edges here, but he ain't going to spend all his time deleting a whole buncha troll posts. In particular what
MrWookie is saying is if Dr.Paul's supporters troll this thread with views and gossip, its fair game for everyone -- just like the main Dr.Paul thread.
And I'd just like to point out this is
exactly the opposite of the OWS Solidarity thread. We wanted a thread where we could post news, and our own personal experiences. None of us were posting views like "OWS is cool". But even through the trolls had already overrun the main OWS thread, they insisted on overrunning the news thread too. And I'm still butthurt that the trolls were allowed to
directly break forum rules, and
personally insult us in that thread by calling us "dirty", and much worse.