This thread is just about making me cry.
I don’t get it, Melon, why? Am I missing the comedy? I hate missing the jokes…explain it.
This isn’t a fucking joke, Nzinga. Prejudice reduces me to tears every time.
Exactly. We should cross that bridge when we come to it.
Sigh.
And that’s when it’s decided if the comment sinks or swims?
But what if the bridge is only partially crossed?
Then we have to blow the bridge up in order to save it.
And then the car plunges off it into the river and a member of a prominent family…
… quickly slaps up a “Prominent Family Member Memorial Off-Ramp” sign.
Other than that, Mrs. Kennedy, how did you enjoy Dallas?
Huh. There’s actually something we agree on.
And, of course, my previous post was not saying that it should have been moderated, just why it was considered a political jab.
Sorry there’s no Kennedy joke in this. I can’t think of a good one.
How many Kennedys does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Fah be it from me to hijack this, eh, thread, as doing so would run contrahy to owa values as a messasge boahd, and as a nation. Howevah, it should be noted that both the Senatah and, eh, Miss Kopechne, each lost something neaha and deaha that fateful night on Mathas Vinyad: theya khakis.
Sorry, I know that was supposed be a Boston accent be I read it as Foghorn Leghorn… much funnier that way.
And, that was correctly the kind of thing where a Note was proper as opposed to a Warning. The poster likely didn’t mean to violate the rules, and it was a marginal case.
Making a joke about something that happened over four decades ago is considered a political jab? Seriously? :dubious:
Jeesh!
They can’t, because there aren’t any left-thread bulbs.
??
To be fair, the reason the “potential hijack” is applied more to conservatives is that jokes about liberal sacred cows are more likely to lead to hijacks. Potshots at conservatives and Republicans are just part of the background hereabouts, but the liberal majority feel much, much more motivated to argue against anything that makes liberal politicians or ideas look silly. But they simply nod their heads at things aimed at those nasty Republicans. So those things don’t lead to hijacks.
Add to that at least one mod has stated that he discounts post reports unless he perceives the reporter as reporting posts equally from both sides of the political divide. Since posts from a conservative point of view are always vastly outnumbered by those from the left, that is a standard that can’t really be reached. Which throws things even more badly out of balance.
Regards,
Shodan
Do you happen to have a cite for the opposite case that you claim happens more often, where a non-political thread was hijacked by political jabs from the left, and nothing was done after it was reported?