As most of you know, I’ve never been a fan of political discussion (or religious debate) on this site. In the early days, we prohibited it completely. Eventually we started allowing it, with some strict guidelines, and ultimately created a separate forum, mostly to isolate it from the rest of the forums. Again, it was created with some specific guidelines.
Personally, I’m not a fan of political debates on social media, in general, but especially for this site. Politics are polarizing and stir deep emotions and more often than not create fractures within a group or organization, which can ultimately destroy said organization. I believed (and stated) this 21 years ago when we started TBH, and it’s even more polarizing today.
We have created, opened and closed the PACE forum many times. It’s a nightmare to moderate (“somebody else started it,” “if you’d just ban those troublemakers (the guys that we disagree with)”, “don’t read it if you don’t like it.”, etc.) and people frequently attribute something said on TBH as an opinion OF TBH.
That said, we have allowed it (PACE and political discussion) as a central place for our CONTRIBUTING members to discuss and share information at the same place where they discuss hunting, archery, family, etc. One of the primary rules we implemented to protect this is:
5. If more than 50% of your posts to the site are in the Politics/Current Events forum, it's likely you're not adding value to the site. If you don't add value to the site, there's no use for you to be here.
There are a LOT of people that are only here to argue and instigate with your political divisiveness, and have nothing else positive to offer the site. Most of you are blatantly obvious, so it’s not going to be a difficult place to start culling. If you are trying to log in and wondering why you’ve been removed, this is the likely reason.
A few others have been sucked in more recently. My advise to you would be to start working the numbers back in your favor (with sincere and legitimate posts).
Michael
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Personally, I’m not a fan of political debates on social media, in general, but especially for this site. Politics are polarizing and stir deep emotions and more often than not create fractures within a group or organization, which can ultimately destroy said organization. I believed (and stated) this 21 years ago when we started TBH, and it’s even more polarizing today.
We have created, opened and closed the PACE forum many times. It’s a nightmare to moderate (“somebody else started it,” “if you’d just ban those troublemakers (the guys that we disagree with)”, “don’t read it if you don’t like it.”, etc.) and people frequently attribute something said on TBH as an opinion OF TBH.
That said, we have allowed it (PACE and political discussion) as a central place for our CONTRIBUTING members to discuss and share information at the same place where they discuss hunting, archery, family, etc. One of the primary rules we implemented to protect this is:
5. If more than 50% of your posts to the site are in the Politics/Current Events forum, it's likely you're not adding value to the site. If you don't add value to the site, there's no use for you to be here.
There are a LOT of people that are only here to argue and instigate with your political divisiveness, and have nothing else positive to offer the site. Most of you are blatantly obvious, so it’s not going to be a difficult place to start culling. If you are trying to log in and wondering why you’ve been removed, this is the likely reason.
A few others have been sucked in more recently. My advise to you would be to start working the numbers back in your favor (with sincere and legitimate posts).
Michael
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