re: Keep politics off this board...thanks...

Ugh, this stinks.

First off, to the people complaining - how about not clicking links or participating in discussions that go political? Why the whining? Pretty weak group of people you are - and I mean that. Find another way other than top down fiat.

Movies are cultural they are bound to cross political lines, ideals, beliefs in SOME way. It's automatic, it's almost required - because all movies carry with it some sort of orientation within the cultural fabric that will make some point, or take some stance, or infer some belief.

Now, does that mean every conversation should be political? Of course not, that's not fun either. Does that mean we should wash politics out of the discourse entirely? Of course not, you can't talk about film without talking about culture, religion, politics - it's IMPOSSIBLE. The grey area here is ENORMOUS.

So I'm guessing we can't talk about the political inference of Battleship Potemkin? That we can't discuss how Russian politics infers Tarkovsky? Can't talk about the often blatant representations of MAGA in the Boys? Are all of those discussions worthwhile? Maybe, maybe not. But all you've done is reduce discussion, reduced the scope of what we can talk about, reduced our ability to talk about a film in the context of culture. Can we talk about philosophy? Can we talk about religion? Can we talk about ethics? Can we talk about morals?

Not every discussion has to be political, but you also can't say No discussion can be political. You just did the extreme in the other direction. Congrats I guess.

My suggestion - I go back to the original run of Game of Thrones. I've never watched the show, for what many of you probably view as lame reasons - mostly the sex and incest. But you do you. I don't like the content, don't like the discussion, don't like anything about it. You know what I did? Never clicked on an episode link. It's not hard.

Now at one time, you had one thread - then the one sticky became two stickies. Then the two stickies for nerds and non nerds became 2 stickies and a countless amount of post-episode topics for people who wanted to have their idea have it's own thread. You know what a few of us did instead of complain to our benevolent Chicken to make a large decree? We asked the board to police itself. How about keeping it to the episode threads? How about reporting individual posts that were totally pointless? How about creating a culture that DIDN'T create a whole bunch of useless GoT threads every single week. And that would persist even after the season ended.


How about we do that now? How about we ask Chicken to reverse this decision, allow political discussion, and create a different culture around it?