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Originally posted by Grand-Ranger:
WHAT!?! How can you say that, wasnt there just a big flame war going on right now!?
Actually come to think of it there have been quite a few serious flames latley.
There was the clan one
There was this one
and there was a another one a while back. 3 may not seem too much, but its 3 too many. And by the way cloudy your last post was toatly ignoring the my point, sure we are human and cant help falming, my point was politcial, racial and all other thread like that WILL CAUSE FLAME WARS. If you want to talk about sutff like this got to msnnbc.com, they have some boards I think for this kina stuff.
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GR, you missed MY point- but I did see yours, really. Yes, there HAVE been incidents lately and look how much discussion was generated by them! Why? Because we don't LIKE that behavior here.
And the mods are doing their jobs so the flamers will know by now that it wasn't appropriate and will stop or be stopped. We cannot control everyone who comes in and posts without thinking, but we can make things known to them and remove them later if the fail to comply with IW standards.
My point- we WILL ALWAYS have discussions of a serious (politics, religion, etc) come up, even off topic in simple fun threads. It happens. It's the nature of message boards and human beings. And there is nothing wrong with controversial subjects discussed on civil terms! But yes, I think they should be separated into another forum where a warning (about the nature of the contents) and RULES(of acceptable and inacceptable behavior) are posted. No, they do NOT have to cause flame wars. People can and DO have debates without personally insulting each other. And in separate forum, that's what the mods would watch for. GR, I think maybe you may not have realized that it is possible to talk about those things without spewing hate or violence or other insults at one another. It IS and I've seen it done at MH and in person in real life talks. I tend to avoid them alot because frankly it makes one have to think AND control ones emotions as well as use a LOT of energy. I'm all for it once in a while,but I much prefer my FUN!
Cloudy
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