[kuz]

[quote author=GoodGrief link=topic=10285.msg93529#msg93529 date=1407029692]
[quote author=CowboyIndian link=topic=10285.msg93494#msg93494 date=1406938250]
[quote author=ferrari link=topic=10285.msg93484#msg93484 date=1406933717] Liberal views haven't changed much.

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Ferrari, can you consider knocking it off with your particular style of political commentary on this sports board? I don't mind that your viewpoints are conservative. I do mind that your political comments are inane.

First, this is a sports board, and while we we all go off on tangents, political tangents are the most tiresome of tangents. Second, your comments aren't intended to provoke discussion--they're just intended to be digs against people who disagree with you. This was illustrated pretty clearly during the discussion of the UCSB Isla Vista shooter when you posted a comment of, "Why don't we ban cars and knives since they were used to kill people?" Everybody ignored that comment because it was inane. So you REPEATED it. And when I finally explained to you that cars/knives are actually different from guns, you immediately said, "I'm out. There's no point in discussing this further." It was the internet equivalent of a kid shouting something on a street corner that he heard his dad said, and then running away when somebody explains to him, "That argument doesn't make sense, and why are you shouting it on a street corner anyway?"

You even took a dig at one of the moderators saying that a particular "liberal" moderator wouldn't appreciate your comment . Again, it's not the conservative viewpoint that is annoying, it's the inanity of the comments.
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I apologize, Grief, if I have offended you (which I obviosly have.) I realized, before this post of yours, that my comment was inappropriate and deleated it, apparently not quickly enough to suit. Thank you for going back in time and resurrecting it.  I will try to limit my inane comments in the future.
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It's this kind of mature response that makes me enjoy this board so much more than the Bootboard. Civility can be severely lacking there, but I find that here everyone is is more likely to forgive and move on whenever someone says something mildly abrasive.

[kuz]

[quote author=GoodGrief link=topic=10285.msg93529#msg93529 date=1407029692]
[quote author=CowboyIndian link=topic=10285.msg93494#msg93494 date=1406938250]
[quote author=ferrari link=topic=10285.msg93484#msg93484 date=1406933717] Liberal views haven't changed much.

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Ferrari, can you consider knocking it off with your particular style of political commentary on this sports board? I don't mind that your viewpoints are conservative. I do mind that your political comments are inane.

First, this is a sports board, and while we we all go off on tangents, political tangents are the most tiresome of tangents. Second, your comments aren't intended to provoke discussion--they're just intended to be digs against people who disagree with you. This was illustrated pretty clearly during the discussion of the UCSB Isla Vista shooter when you posted a comment of, "Why don't we ban cars and knives since they were used to kill people?" Everybody ignored that comment because it was inane. So you REPEATED it. And when I finally explained to you that cars/knives are actually different from guns, you immediately said, "I'm out. There's no point in discussing this further." It was the internet equivalent of a kid shouting something on a street corner that he heard his dad said, and then running away when somebody explains to him, "That argument doesn't make sense, and why are you shouting it on a street corner anyway?"

You even took a dig at one of the moderators saying that a particular "liberal" moderator wouldn't appreciate your comment . Again, it's not the conservative viewpoint that is annoying, it's the inanity of the comments.
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I apologize, Grief, if I have offended you (which I obviosly have.) I realized, before this post of yours, that my comment was inappropriate and deleated it, apparently not quickly enough to suit. Thank you for going back in time and resurrecting it.  I will try to limit my inane comments in the future.
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It's this kind of mature response that makes me enjoy this board so much more than the Bootboard. Civility can be severely lacking there, but I find that here everyone is is more likely to forgive and move on whenever someone says something mildly abrasive.