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Originally Posted by PoorMansCamaro
I disagree. You just probably need a couple of mods to watch it, as their main focus. I've been part of another car forum since 2003, with a politics section. It's a pretty active car site as well.
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As I said before, we're here to moderate a CAR forum, not a POLITICAL forum. If it works somewhere else, great. It doesn't seem to work here.
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Originally Posted by strych9
Censorship is political, wouldn't you agree?
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No, I wouldn't. We have 'censored' people who come here to talk soley about Mustangs, or trash GM, or promote their website, or post inappropriate pictures, or 'sell' whatever garbage that spammers come here with. None of that is political in any way. And its all done in order to keep the site clean and the atmosphere as friendly as possible.
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Originally Posted by PoorMansCamaro
Seeing as I am a part of a car forum, with a politics section, and politics doesn't get talked about outside of said section...since at least 2003, I would beg to differ... 
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Different people are different people. By which I mean that just because things happen one way for one group doesn't mean that another can do the same thing in the same way & have it all work out. Anything else would seem rather ridiculous to me. Just think back to whenever you've changed jobs, or schools, or had to meet the family of a loved one. Old group & new group can, objectively, be quite similar. But the group dynamics & social norms can be very different. Because different people are different.
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Originally Posted by detamble13
I'd be all for a politics section. And as someone else suggested put a disclaimer on it and let people discuss the issues without moderation. Forum members currently slip in political or religous statements here and there. There's one guy on here who's signature reads something like: We have a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem. After the Newtown Conn. tragedy someone started a thread with a poem about how the children killed were now home with God, and the gun section blew up with people looking for weapons and ammo because of feared legislation changes. People will find a way to slip in religion or politics on C5, like it or not. So why not contain it in a specific sub-forum?
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Because, for whatever reason, it simply does not stay contained to that one little section.