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Thank you Spark. God Bless America.

 

Might want to make this a sticky

 

Might want to go through and scrub the PA threads on the recent events at the capital. Let's not have the PA get the whole place shut down.

 

Thanks Spark!

 

I don't think Bladeforums would be worse off if the entire Politics subforum were scrubbed, to be honest.

 

I agree with this.

 

Thank you and the moderator team, hopefully members will help all of you and hit report

 

I appreciate this, agree and thank you for this. We are here, first and foremost, for knives, imho.

 

Got to agree, I come here to learn about knives. Plenty of politics forums for those who want to discuss that sort of stuff

 

BF is one of the few places I can still retreat to online each day, to find relaxation and some normalcy apart from all the chaos in the world right now. Very good to see here, that the right priorities are being set and enforced as they need to be. Losing this oasis right now would be just one more meaningless tragedy we really don't need.

Much Thanks.

 

Kudos on getting ahead of this issue before it becomes an issue. As a recent refugee from a jurisdiction with draconian knife laws (potential felony charges for any locking knife or any blade over 3"), it has been liberating to be able to acquire tool knives with the safety feature of a locking blade. (Admittedly, the fidget factor is also a guilty pleasure.) The best way to preserve knife rights is to de-politicize knife ownership (and show some discretion around those who are uncomfortable around blades). Any discussion of violence undermines the hearts and minds 'knives are tools not weapons' argument that law-abiding knife owners need to push to preserve their rights.

 

The political subform has become a little bit of an alt-right echo chamber. Level-headed rational folks are branded "lefties" there and derided as "libtards", whatever that is. It's not a very moderate sub and I think it stinks up the place. While I wouldn't suggest removing it, I do think that it should be hidden from our front page in much the same manner as whine and cheese. And it might benefit from a little bit more even moderation.

I recently lost a customer because I do almost all of my business on Bladeforums and he told me he did not want to support the site because of that sub. I don't agree with that mindset, but that did just happen and it does affect me. In my opinion that sub is a little bit embarrassing and should be hidden.

 

Is the "null rake" guy still here? Oh he is? ok then.

 

Another vote to scrub it.
@Spark The PA is likely a liability with little to no upside. A handful of people, some supposedly with jobs, bicker by the minute all day. The content is frequently that which would reflect poorly on our community.
Many of the participants have few posts outside PA, and assuming that other venues stay open, could/should argue politics elsewhere.

 

I'm fairly certain the PA forum is in fact hidden, you need a membership to even see the link to it I believe. That aside everything you said about it is true, it's not even really a political forum so much as it is an echo chamber with incredibly biased mod. I am one more for scrubbing it.

 

Keep the Political Arena.

People will discuss it anyhow. With the political arena in tact the discussion will stay focused one area. Get rid of it and you will make more work for the Moderators.

 

These are strange times. I think folks overall could benefit from more civility - too much hate in the world as it is.

I've been on forums where there is no designated corner for politics. As a result, such topics leak out all over the place and it creates bad blood in a hurry. Having a section where one can be directed to in order to discuss such topics is a smart feature - it keeps things contained and should one bring up a particularly flavorful subject in the general forums, they can be moved or told to take it to the figurative "smoking area".

In the end, I am here for the knives and the good buddies - I won't be letting politics get in the way of that.

 

Sorry that you lost a customer over something that you did not post or have control over.

However, I find your comment about “level-headed rational folks” being branded leftists insulting. It implies that anyone that is conservative is not “level-headed.” This just is not the case. There are rational people on both sides of the political fence.