the last thing I want to do is censor open and civil discussion and debate here.

and I commend the vast majority of members for maintaining that civility, even when in disagreement.


I would like to just also present something from the mod side....

we try to be fair, neutral and unbiased when it comes to modding political threads (all threads for that matter), and to only intervene when things move into the realm of violating NTs guidelines on member to member interaction

but

it does seem that we inevitably have members from both "sides" getting upset and accusing us of being biased toward the other when we intervene in any way

for that reason I my vote is to return to only having very limited political discussion.

I realize it will still be hard to determine where the "limit" is.....but I care deeply about the members who are getting upset by the many political topics on the social forum, and felt things were beginning to focus too much on the negatives and personalities, and not enough on the issues and facts.

I will without question abide by whatever the majority decision is from the membership on this, and continue to apply the guidelines fairly and without partiality