We are not normal adults. Everyone is at a different stage in their illness.
Politics will destroy this community. If it is allowed
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Speak for yourself. You talk about wanting equality for the LGBT community. I want equality for the mentally ill community.
I can handle myself just fine in political conversations without becoming nasty.
Jesus Christ! Wonāt somebody just think of the children!!!
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LOL nice one @anon1517417 !
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The mods donāt govern, they moderate. Big difference.
I think you could criticize more about what other posters say on this site, than what the moderators say on this site.
I find myself wanting to get engaged in political debate sometimes too. But, unfortunately, politics and religion are two highly divisive topics.
I think allowing them would only serve to undermine the main purpose of this site as a recovery oriented website. Allowing them would only divide us into camps of those with similar ideological beliefs.
Any specific rule that you object to, can be brought up to SzAdmin though. He is a reasonable guy. We almost got rid of the āno links to non english speakingā rule recently, and he was going to allow us to get rid of but the majority of mods voted against it.
There was talk of updating the rules awhile back but we never got around to it. I seriously doubt the no religion and no politics rule is going anywhere anytime soon, however.
In the meantime, we just enforce the rules that are there.
So lets have a fragile community of people with an illness with symptoms like thought disorder have normal adult conversations like politics and religion.
I would love to tell you my stance on a lot of things happening in the world. But respect the rules here not to.
Letās see what happens.
On a side noteā¦
YOUāRE ALL JUST ANTS IN MY SUGAR CAVE!!
Whether Iām being āgovernedā or āmoderatedā isnāt the point. In both cases there are rules Iām subjected to that I canāt change which are enforced by people that I am powerless against.
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Moderating should be simpleā¦suspend the drunks and trollsā¦and let the rest of us be normal.
FCS! We may be on the verge of WW3 and we arenāt even allowed to make personal commentary about it?! Really?
I respect the rules too. @anon4362788 started this thread so I stated my opinion.
Or you could look at it as a way to be a human being working within a pre determined structured environment. Also, in fact, you arenāt made to be here. But itās always good to understand your thought process. I think itās a glass half empty/half full scenario.
We tried moderating the war threads more loosely when war first broke out. You have to remember that this site is international. It only led to conflicts. Not everyone has the same view as you. Again, undermines the purpose of this site, and violates the no politics rules.
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There is also pm if you wanna discuss with people with same interest.
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Well, it looks like everyone has had their say. Last post was 25 mins ago. Going to close this thread.