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<p>[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4607217, member: 111037"]Wow I missed all the fun! And I was bored yesterday... Joking aside one of the things that surprised me about this forum is how civil it is. I am here only since February but I believe this is the first time a mod had to remove a thread... </p><p><br /></p><p>I would like the pinned post to be removed after a day or two for practical reasons. As other people have stated this is a fairly active forum and new threads end up on the second page fairly quickly. Interesting write-ups can be easily missed especially by the people who do not log in daily. Having unecessary pinned threads occupying the top spot won't help in that respect.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I have learned by being a member of online communities over the years is that it is totally pointless to have political/ideological debates online. Nothing positive comes out from a flame-war. No-one will change their views because you ranted about yours and society will not be affected in the slightest...So why do it? I think the mistake people make is that they assume others share their political/ideological views just because they are into the same hobby as they are. So, such posts should be avoided as they can easily trigger an unfriendly debate that has nothing to do with the forum subject. I wanted to post a news link the other day about some people considering removing a statue of Constantine the Great from an English cathedral because he did not free the slaves even though he passed a law making the killing of slaves illegal. I decided not to go ahead with posting it as I could see it easily becoming political even though Constantine is definitely not off-topic here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4607217, member: 111037"]Wow I missed all the fun! And I was bored yesterday... Joking aside one of the things that surprised me about this forum is how civil it is. I am here only since February but I believe this is the first time a mod had to remove a thread... I would like the pinned post to be removed after a day or two for practical reasons. As other people have stated this is a fairly active forum and new threads end up on the second page fairly quickly. Interesting write-ups can be easily missed especially by the people who do not log in daily. Having unecessary pinned threads occupying the top spot won't help in that respect. One thing I have learned by being a member of online communities over the years is that it is totally pointless to have political/ideological debates online. Nothing positive comes out from a flame-war. No-one will change their views because you ranted about yours and society will not be affected in the slightest...So why do it? I think the mistake people make is that they assume others share their political/ideological views just because they are into the same hobby as they are. So, such posts should be avoided as they can easily trigger an unfriendly debate that has nothing to do with the forum subject. I wanted to post a news link the other day about some people considering removing a statue of Constantine the Great from an English cathedral because he did not free the slaves even though he passed a law making the killing of slaves illegal. I decided not to go ahead with posting it as I could see it easily becoming political even though Constantine is definitely not off-topic here.[/QUOTE]
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