HoloYolo Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 I feel like lately with the 2016 American presidential election, and many IRL things happening at the moment, we should be able to have our own section dedicated to politics, and arguments about politics (damn was that a sentence). Every Time it is brought up, it is quickly suppressed, and that bothers me a lot. I understand it was made a rule, but sometimes even the thought or words of something related gets taken down. Even in the off-topic section I have seen my fair share of political comments taken down. It just bothers me to the core. IF they made a section on politics, it would let people say stuff about crappy leaders, and let them focus on science and KSP on the different sections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderSpork Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 It sounds good in theory. If there was a particular section just for politics, it would stay there and keep it out of the rest of the forums, right? Well, yeah, but it would do more harm than good. First off, I don't think Squad wants to have raging political arguments on their forums. Not only does it have nothing to do with KSP, it does not look good for them or for the forums to have that mess going on. It makes the whole board look less controlled and less appealing. A politics section also creates unnecessary rifts between everyone involved. People, especially internet people, are quite enthusiastic about their candidate of choice and can become very bitter that someone else has a different favorite. In real life most people will look past this and agree to disagree because they're talking to a physical person standing in front of them. Once you remove the physical aspect though, as with basically any comment section, internet folks will actually resent each other over political opinions. And this will carry outside of the seemingly contained section - even if it's not full on resentment, there will definitely be more dislike going around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robotengineer Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 IIRC, there are other forums for politics around the internet... I think it would be best to keep politics out of the KSP community (to the best of our ability) and let the dedicated forums bear the brunt of the ugliness that arises from political 'discussion' (which often takes the form of internet brawls). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Quote Every Time it is brought up, it is quickly suppressed... Verily, this is so, for every time politics comes up it turns into arguments, which is why we have a forum rule about it (2.2.b). One such post, insulting a candidate and likely offending that candidate's supporters, has already been removed from this thread. Please take those discussions somewhere else on the internet so that we can keep our little space game forum friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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