To be honest, if I was Petro I would’ve shut the politics down entirely but that’s just me. Show me another sports message board that allows politics. I go to other teams message boards before their games with the Jets to see what they are saying and none of the boards have any politics. Our biggest competitor in Jets message board world doesn’t allow politics either. I am an Admin at a soccer forum in Turkey gscimbom.com and we don’t allow politics there either. Message boards are dying breed. We are a handful idiots here and in every political thread there are fights etc. How will you moderate that? Total 60-80 users and multiple egos. When you ban people even for a week people’s egos take over and they abandon board entirely. Stokes was gone because he was banned. If we applied forum rules to political threads we would have to ban everyone who posted on this thread except Jonathan Vilma. BS Forum was my favorite forum in the offseason but now I don’t even want to come here due to political threads. I am on my phone I can’t write longer. Just wanted to vent
24 years ago, a good friend of mine started a chat website centered around high performance motorcycles. He stressed that it was uncensored... anything goes... except for stick & ball sports. He wouldn't abide by that. oh... and scat. No scat. That was added a short time later...
Will you get the fuck over that asshole already? He was a raging obnoxious douchebag who, when he wasn’t bragging about his cooking, kids, car or travel, was polluting every thread with a flame war with about half a dozen other idiots. Good fucking riddance. Addition by subtraction.
The problem is not the threads themselves. Current affairs threads will, naturally, involve some element of political discussion. These threads have proved fairly popular and - by the majority of posters at least - been treated exactly how they were intended. The problem is that some posters can not avoid bringing their partisan left/right BS into the discussion which massively derails the thread and quickly ends up in the pantomime like sewer that is party politics. Stick to what is actually happening and avoid the 'my guy would have done it better' crap and there wouldn't be a problem. I'd like to imagine in a fairly civilized world we can let the Twitter mentality go, but it appears some cannot. Cue the 'how long have you been posting here' type response.
The real question I have is whether most political sites have a Jets forum for people to go start flame wars in? They really should.
