Partisan political discussion can often lead to heated disagreement. This can often lead to people losing a bit of self-control and forgetting to check what they post before hitting send and this leads to a whole class of specific versions of the common rule violations particular to the Political Forums.
Here are some examples of typical comments in the Political Forum:
Examples:
"That's typical liberal commie thinking, tax and spend"
"The right wing fascists are all alike, ignoring the poor"
These are generalizations or labels directed at a poster, or a group, not the topic at hand.
While they may make commentary that may be true or valid about government policy (for instance it is true that liberal and leftist policy is higher in taxation generally and tend to spend more and conservatives have traditionally spend less on social policy), their intent is to malign or tar-and-feather a poster or group by generalization and incite them to a heated response. This is
flame-baiting as opposed to a direct insult:
Examples:
"You are just a typical leftist...fuzzy thinking and unable to provide decisive action"
"You're a neo-conservative war-monger who wants to invade foreign nations and kill their children"
This is plain and simple
flamingThere are existing rules to deal with all of these in the
Forum Rules Specific thread as there are for
Trolling.
Posting a Thread specifically to start a flame-war or to incite flames from your political adversary - and it soon becomes clear either in the wording or content of your posts or the subject line what that is - is garden variety Trolling and will be dealt with in the usual way.
Examples:
"Liberals fear the truth of terrorist agenda"
"Conservative talk-show host spews fascist rhetoric"
These are pretty obvious as to their intent. Such threads, if spotted will be deleted and if a serious enough rule violation or repeatedly posted, their originator will be banned.
The final arbiter in these cases will be the moderators - jailhouse barristers and rules lawyers be advised - looking for loopholes will only earn you extra sentencing time. This form of cheap debating tactic is a sneaky way of trying to get around PoF's rules of not being able to directly insult or make insinuations about your opponant or actually having to defend a position in a debate by building a good argument. Well if you cannot construct a good argument, get used to not having much to say.
Consider yourself on notice. There will be
ZERO TOLERANCE for this kind of behavior in future.
*TheMadFiddler*
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