Freddie wrote:Al...but politics is banned, if it is of the wrong stripe. Pete75's thread about Scottish Independence can roll on, because no on has been naughty yet. Could I suggest that is because people with differing views to the OP can conduct themselves reasonably.
Start a thread round here saying UKIP or Tories may have a point and see how long it lasts. You even have mods say "I knew it would get out of hand and should have deleted it right away". So, politics can be discussed, but only the right (actually left) kind. The wrong kind and you invite people who want to mark undue personal remarks and wilfully disrupt it and then the mods delete it, rather than deal with the offenders. This is a easy way to stifle certain politics and elevate others on the part of these disruptive posters.
I have noticed that myself. I think there are lots of folk who think like me here but they don't stick their head over the parapet because they notice it too.
Al