Why do decent threads turn into p*ssing matches?

I really don't think things are nearly as bad as they were a year ago, asshole-troll wise. The flushings made have aided things immensely. The threads getting locked are the types that have always gotten locked, it seems.

 

When did zag become a school marm?

 

dools, three years ago, there were not 5 threads a day getting locked.

What's changed in the past three years?

 

Oh, there were stretches when that occurred. And there are stretches now where it doesn't occur. And if it is occurring more now, need I remind you this is an election year.[/schiff]

 

I would agree -- this is a point that I think needs to be made -- it really isn't that bad around here and the threads that have gotten locked have almost always run their course in the discussion and are just waiting to die anyway.

I think there is far less name-calling than there used to be, far fewer people agitating just to agitate and frankly the moderators have done a good job of keeping things cleaned up and making people who step way out of line disappear for a period to cool off.

I also think that people have been very respectful of the journalism board as being the far more serious board and that the topics here have been very good and healthy, hearty arguments are good for us all because like it or not, on some level, they make you think.

 

I sense deep appeasement underway on this thread.

 

But by the same token -- I think this is the time you want to have some political threads because discussion boards like this are the only place where a lot of people can meet and discuss so many important topics and get so many different points of view.

The religious threads, yeah, they probably are less neccessary and cause more problems than they solve, but I think political threads are helpful to all of us in many ways.

 

Thank you, Prime Minister Chamberlain.

 

Who?

 

Um, he was big in the history books a few decades ago.