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| Should huge topics with many strong, differing opinions be open to debate at The Ville. |
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| Yes, it's a free forum. We are at liberty to discuss what we wish. |
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| It's up to Rob and JD. |
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| The threads should stop, but the sigs and avatars are OK. |
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DaKon
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Joined: 19 Feb 2002
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| Stevo wrote: | | `RaphX wrote: | | Stevo wrote: | | ApacheEyes wrote: | But, his chapter in my opinion, is right on the money. Like Sully, I've been here for over 3 years (that's scary), and for all of that time, political and religious debates have been discouraged and the threads usually locked instantly. There are reasons for the ville surviving all this time and one of them was the unwritten rule of avoiding politics/religion debates.
There has to be a billion sites to go to and discuss such things, I play here to get away from the like. I read the posts for the gaming side and to keep in touch with a few friends, because that's why almost all of us are here. |
I agree with what Apache said. TheVille is a gaming community, not a political forum. You can find many other places to have these discussions, they just don't belong on these forums IMO. TheVille has always had this unwritten rule and I think it is one of the things that keeps the place alive.
Making a seperate forum for political debate just doesn't serve a purpose at a Half-Life gaming community. Especially bacause there are plenty of other places to have those discussions.
Before I read everyone's post I voted that the sigs are okay, but now that I have read KRG's post about the sigs I agree that they can offend people and may cause problems.
Threads and sigs on political and religious topics don't belong here at TheVille. That is just my 2 cents.  |
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John Doe
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Everyone
I had a discussion with Rob about this post and recent activities here at the Ville dealing with Politics and such.
Without going into great detail on what we discussed and the various options that exist ( many people have already said it better in this thread than I could anyhow) were going to try to keep the Villes focus on gaming.
Discussions of politics, religion and other hot topics that people get overly upset over should be avoided in the Ville forums.
With that in mind, I would request that people with political sigs for or against or bashing someone change them so we can get back to the important subject here, and thats playing TFC!!! errr, wait, ok I guess I will have to expand that to playing Ville based games although I still love TFC even if you have all ran away cause I was too l33t
Cheers all, PM me if you have any concerns or comments as I will be locking this thread too.
JD
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