Why have you closed the thread on Venezuela?
Why have you closed the thread on Venezuela?
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732NM

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10,704 posts

36 months

Monday 5th January
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You have closed the thread discussing the situation in Venezuela, and told people to post in the Trump thread.

Why?

This is an ongoing and fast moving situation that deserves it's own thread, which covers a subject that expands well outside of what Trump does, it has the potential for this becoming a serious future subject over a substantial period of time.

It would be sensible to reverse this decision.


BlackTails

2,402 posts

76 months

Monday 5th January
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732NM said:
As subject description.

You have closed the thread discussing the situation in Venezuela, and told people to post in the Trump thread.

Why?

This is an ongoing and fast moving situation that deserves it's own thread, which covers a subject that expands well outside of what Trump does, it has the potential for this becoming a serious future subject over a substantial period of time.

It would be sensible to reverse this decision.
The situation in Venezuela does deserve its own thread, but it’s very hard to see how such a thread won’t descend into the Trump fans worshipping Trump and his actions more generally. Because none of them really care about Venezuela, but they do care very much about trumpeting how much they admire Trump.

Wills2

27,835 posts

196 months

Monday 5th January
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Agreed a very poor decision, the Trump thread is not the place to discuss the future of Venezuela and the ramifications of what is a global event as the thread is just spammed everyday by a single poster.


Galibier

911 posts

8 months

Monday 5th January
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Because the people fellating Trump in that thread couldn't find Venezuela on a map and are seemingly immune from sense, logic, reason or any formal education.

Earthdweller

17,262 posts

147 months

Monday 5th January
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Some ( most ) won't go anywhere near the Trump thread and it's loon infestation

The Venezuela thread was NOT about Trump but action of the US Government

OIC

289 posts

14 months

Monday 5th January
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Did the Falkland's war thread get closed with posters told to post in the Thatcher thread?

No it didn't.

Mainly because PH didn't exist in the 80s.

But you get what I mean.

God, can you imagine the bile that the mental lefties would have spewed into a live Thatcher thread.

All the time.

Every fecking minute of every fecking day.

But yeh, Venezuela ain't Trump.

It's much much more and needs its own thread.

732NM

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Monday 5th January
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Galibier said:
Because the people fellating Trump in that thread couldn't find Venezuela on a map and are seemingly immune from sense, logic, reason or any formal education.
That's no reason to close a thread, it's a reason to moderate it, if required.

Just this minute we have the case in New York starting and the new President sworn in. You can't cover this in a Trump thread.

BlackTails

2,402 posts

76 months

Monday 5th January
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732NM said:
That's no reason to close a thread, it's a reason to moderate it, if required.
Well yes, but that’s pretty onerous for the mods I expect. And it doesn’t take much foresight to see that the same posters banned from the Trump thread would end up banned from a Venezuela thread for the same reasons that led to their being banned from the Trump thread.

Galibier

911 posts

8 months

Monday 5th January
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732NM said:
That's no reason to close a thread, it's a reason to moderate it, if required.

Just this minute we have the case in New York starting and the new President sworn in. You can't cover this in a Trump thread.
732NM said:
That's no reason to close a thread, it's a reason to moderate it, if required.

Just this minute we have the case in New York starting and the new President sworn in. You can't cover this in a Trump thread.
Posters on that thread appear to have been banned from the Trump thread and had instead migrated to the new one. My guess is that the mods just CBA dealing with the same people over and over in any thread about Trump.

Ultimately this is a free forum and it's theirs.

732NM

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Monday 5th January
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Galibier said:
Posters on that thread appear to have been banned from the Trump thread and had instead migrated to the new one. My guess is that the mods just CBA dealing with the same people over and over in any thread about Trump.

Ultimately this is a free forum and it's theirs.
Venezuela is not Trump.

If people post in a way that breaks the PH rules in any thread, ban them from the thread. Shutting down such an important subject matter is the wrong choice of the two, if you want PH to be a worthwhile place to discuss politics.

Galibier

911 posts

8 months

Monday 5th January
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It can’t be not-Trump either. That’s just the way it is. You can’t remove him from the conversations. Not least because of those same posters.

732NM

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Galibier said:
It can t be not-Trump either. That s just the way it is. You can t remove him from the conversations. Not least because of those same posters.
That is no argument to incorporate Venezuela solely into the Trump subject exclusively.
Trump is just one aspect this.

jeremyc

26,848 posts

305 months

Monday 5th January
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It looks as though it may have been finger trouble. It is open again now.
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