ok, sorry for the tl;dr. I thought this was a relatively simple issue that wouldn't need to come to this but apparently not
cliffs:
- awful non-pog poster is stinking up the pog politics thread
- mod refuses to take action because he's not technically breaking any forum rules despite the fact that the pog politics thread should clearly be for poggers
- lolpog, obv
long version:
Like many subforums, POG has a politics thread, so the community can have somewhere to discuss politics without it clogging up any other threads, particularly the pub.
bahbahmickey has 604 posts in the POG Politics thread at current count. He has 6 posts in any other thread in POG, of which only one was in the last four years. From memory, he's been banned from several other politics threads on 2+2 for relentless bad posting.
It seems a fairly cut and dry issue. He is not a pogger. He should not be posting in the POG politics thread.
one of the current POG mods agrees:
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Originally Posted by gambit8888
You don't even post in pog
this thread is for poggers to discuss politics
bye bye
several longstanding poggers agree:
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Originally Posted by eyebooger
Can we stop replying to bahbah?
He is not and never was a member of this forum. He is here only for this thread.
I'm almost never for banning people, but I'm not seeing a reason not to.
Play some games or GTFO.
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Originally Posted by soah
It's incredible that it actually needs to be explained why the POG Politics thread is a place for members of POG to discuss politics rather than a place in POG where outsiders can come and discuss politics.
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Originally Posted by chuckleslovakian
I recommend any bahbah post in this thread to be met with "Louisville paid strippers to come to the dorm"
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Originally Posted by confirmedtroll
TL, TN or soah will always be part of the POG community and can post in whichever thread they want.
Some random clown that never entered a POG thread continuously **** posting (regardless of political allegiance) in this thread is not comparable by any metric.
Your ruling is wrong.
however, Puzzles/Kruze, who mods the politics thread, seems to think that the POG Politics thread isn't actually for poggers, but for whoever they please to come and post politics:
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Originally Posted by Puzzles
Anyone can post their Political feels in this thread. What is the worst that can happen? A brand new poster reads POG threads and maybe joins a few games? Omg.
As long as they don't break official 2p2 rules, live and let live.
Expecting something like you must be an "official POGGER" to participate in the Politics threads, is silly. Where are the POGGER profiles I can view to determine if someone is worthy to post here?
If someone breaks 2p2 rules, action will be taken, make a legit post report. Don't just report someone because you disagree with them and can't be bothered to engage them with a post of your own.
Don't 'post report' someone simply because they aren't an "official POGGER", does anyone here have a list of "Official POGGERS?" give me a break. The more people participating in conversations the better in my opinion.
In the case of bahbahmicky, he seems to make his points/posts civilly without using any personal attacks.
He isn't breaking 2p2 rules. I'm ok with his participation.
This is basically a load of nonsense that ignores what the thread is for. There are plenty of other places on this forum for bahbah to go post politics, but only one thread for POG to discuss politics, and we shouldn't have to put up with his endless stream of nonsense while we do so. We've got enough homegrown nonsense of our own. And I'm perfectly happy for this to apply to any non-poggers whatever their political persuasion.
This seems to be the general consensus of the other poggers who've posted an opinion on this, so I don't see why one mod should be able to overrule everyone else in the community. Particularly since the last time he went against the wishes of the majority of POG Politics posters was in unbanning VMF (originally banned for stinking up the thread with conspiracy theories),
and that ended excellently, with VMF lasting about a month before getting re-permaed.
so srsly, can we just get it agreed that the POG Politics thread is for poggers only, which is why it's the POG Politics thread and not just the Politics thread which we literally have an entire damn forum for
Last edited by Bloobird; 12-19-2017 at 11:39 AM.
Reason: edited in one more longstanding pogger