News and Politics Forum

[any old iron]

After being a watcher here for a while I decided to log in and post a comment on the News forum.

It appears,however, that one or more of the forum bouncers have decided that I cannot post there as I haven't made five thousand posts or somesuch nonsense.

Perhaps I could make a contribution to the Degenerate Computer Fiddlers Benevolent Fund, that would oil the wheels. Or not.

Anyway, I really can't be bothered with it.

:wave:

[hidetheelephants]

IIRC it's 1000 posts elsewhere; given this is was created as a motoring forum and News & Politics gives the moderators the biggest workload with bad behaviour it's not unreasonable.

[E63eeeeee...]

Shame, because you sound like you'd fit right in.

[r3g]

You're not missing anything. The politics threads are mostly populated by 50-60 year old angry liberal lefty pro-immigration handwringers who are still mad that Brexit happened and Orange Man is still Bad. Most of them have been posting the same crap into the void for 15 or 20 years on here. Best avoided.

[lizardbrain]

Read the title and thought perhaps economics was being split off from NP!

I'd vote for that. I think there would be some really interesting discussions.

[hidetheelephants]

Quod erat demonstrandum, NP&E is easily the most contentious sub-forum and places a disproportionate workload on volunteer moderators.

r3g said:

You're not missing anything. The politics threads are mostly populated by 50-60 year old angry liberal lefty pro-immigration handwringers who are still mad that Brexit happened and Orange Man is still Bad. Most of them have been posting the same crap into the void for 15 or 20 years on here. Best avoided.

[r3g]

[Master Bean]

any old iron said:

After being a watcher here for a while I decided to log in and post a comment on the News forum.

It appears,however, that one or more of the forum bouncers have decided that I cannot post there as I haven't made five thousand posts or somesuch nonsense.

Perhaps I could make a contribution to the Degenerate Computer Fiddlers Benevolent Fund, that would oil the wheels. Or not.

Anyway, I really can't be bothered with it.

:wave:

If only there was a sticky in this website feedback section.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[AW111]

r3g said:

You're not missing anything. The politics threads are mostly populated by 50-60 year old angry liberal lefty pro-immigration handwringers who are still mad that Brexit happened and Orange Man is still Bad. Most of them have been posting the same crap into the void for 15 or 20 years on here. Best avoided.

That sounds exactly like the profile of NP&E's most prolific poster, the notoriously green lefty posting as turbobloke.

[dickymint]

any old iron said:

After being a watcher here for a while I decided to log in and post a comment on the News forum.

It appears,however, that one or more of the forum bouncers have decided that I cannot post there as I haven't made five thousand posts or somesuch nonsense.

Perhaps I could make a contribution to the Degenerate Computer Fiddlers Benevolent Fund, that would oil the wheels. Or not.

Anyway, I really can't be bothered with it.

:wave:

If you put a 'y' after the :wave: you get this

Just trying to help

[AW111]

dickymint said:

If you put a 'y' after the :wave: you get this

Just trying to help

That has got to be PH's most friendly emoticon.

Not drowning, waving.

[E63eeeeee...]

r3g said:

You're not missing anything. The politics threads are mostly populated by 50-60 year old angry liberal lefty pro-immigration handwringers who are still mad that Brexit happened and Orange Man is still Bad. Most of them have been posting the same crap into the void for 15 or 20 years on here. Best avoided.

Interestingly, that's only been an even vaguely accurate description since the 1000 post rule was instituted. It definitely shifted something.

[S600BSB]

AW111 said:

r3g said:

You're not missing anything. The politics threads are mostly populated by 50-60 year old angry liberal lefty pro-immigration handwringers who are still mad that Brexit happened and Orange Man is still Bad. Most of them have been posting the same crap into the void for 15 or 20 years on here. Best avoided.

That sounds exactly like the profile of NP&E's most prolific poster, the notoriously green lefty posting as turbobloke.

I’d guess TB is a bit over 60 tbh.. Anyway, he has over 103,000 posts which is a good effort!

[HD Adam]

AW111 said:

r3g said:

You're not missing anything. The politics threads are mostly populated by 50-60 year old angry liberal lefty pro-immigration handwringers who are still mad that Brexit happened and Orange Man is still Bad. Most of them have been posting the same crap into the void for 15 or 20 years on here. Best avoided.

That sounds exactly like the profile of NP&E's most prolific poster, the notoriously green lefty posting as turbobloke.

No. It's Byker28i.

Everyday a dozen Anti-Trump posts culled from the internet.

I suggested the thread should be renamed "I'm a Lefty & I'm triggered by Trump's existence" & was banned from NP&E for trolling.

I have reported various posts from Byker & his little Lefty gang for trolling & posting irrelevant content in the Trump thread but not even an acknowledgement from the Mods.

I fully suspect that the mod is in the anti-Trump gang.

Will I get a perma ban for this? Wouldn't surprise me.

[hidetheelephants]

HD Adam said:

No. It's Byker28i.

Everyday a dozen Anti-Trump posts culled from the internet.

I suggested the thread should be renamed "I'm a Lefty & I'm triggered by Trump's existence" & was banned from NP&E for trolling.

I have reported various posts from Byker & his little Lefty gang for trolling & posting irrelevant content in the Trump thread but not even an acknowledgement from the Mods.

I fully suspect that the mod is in the anti-Trump gang.

Will I get a perma ban for this? Wouldn't surprise me.

Breaking two rules in one post is a good way of going about it.

[HD Adam]

hidetheelephants said:

Breaking two rules in one post is a good way of going about it.

Which 2 rules do you think I've broken here?

[hidetheelephants]

HD Adam said:

hidetheelephants said:

Breaking two rules in one post is a good way of going about it.

Which 2 rules do you think I've broken here?

You acknowledge trolling and you're complaining about moderator decisions.

[Scrump]

Time to put this thread to bed before someone really does break any rules!