[Doody]

If every member of NT is to follow NT's rules or suffer the consequences, then every member should!

I'm tired of all the political opinions and attacks. One member was banned for being too controversial (in more way than one), so I would like to see all of those controversial threads stopped. They are upsetting me.

[Chemar]

I have forwarded your comments to Doc, Doody so that he can reply personally

the mod team had asked for a total ban on political posts as we were concerned for these upsets. Doc had hoped reason would prevail.

I am so sorry you have been upset as I know others have been too.

[Doody]

That's fine.

I just believe that if one person gets in trouble for going on tangents, then others should as well. I'm tired of reading all the political garbage on here.

Thanks.

[Chemar]

the rules are being fairly applied to all Doody and please remember things also take place behind the scenes that you may not be aware of.

we do not show partiality here

[Jomar]

Please report posts that you find offensive or bothersome - that is how we get feedback to know how things are going.

If a specific poster's style is upsetting , you can place them on Ignore also.

Unless posts are reported - we can only guess at what is upsetting.

[Doody]

I understand all of that.

Thanks.

[glenntaj]

--that we don't go to far in the other direction.

Any post about any subject is potentially annoying/disturbing/triggering to someone, somewhere. But part of living in a democracy is that we have to have a certain tolerance for opinions and the like we find distasteful. The balance between letting things come into the light and holding from view those same things on the grounds that they may offend is tenuous at best. (Remember the cartoons in the Danish newspapers?)

My opinion in this area in fairly well-known from other arenas--as long as a post is not libelous, leaving the site open to suit, a lot of latitutde should be allowed, as sunlight is the best disenfectant, you can't discuss what you can't engage in, and pushing things under the rug never did anything but lump up the rug . . .and make a lot of people trip.