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Should there be a politics forum?

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Magoo:
Whats to discuss ..... You have your beliefs and I have mine and neither of us is going to change the other. b0x3r

crazy.irish.celt:
I feel that adding these sub-sections to a site dedidated to coping with baldness would reduce the frequency of quality posts on the subject, replacing them with things totally unrelated to the issues that originally drew most of us here.

I realize that it would be convenient to have ONE website where you can look up things about head shaving, talk about politics, and share prayer requests, or talk about anything on your mind.  Oh, wait....

www.facebook.com

That's where you need to be if you want an all-inclusive internet wormhole within which to bury yourself. 

Here, the primary focus is about man issues from the neck up.

Vash:
I'd I like to say that I  give all us sly guys on this forum the benefit of the doubt and say that we are all adults who are capable of civilized debate and argumentative discourse toward a higher level of understanding amongst ourselves and through so doing could achieve an even more close-knit community via sharing our respective political views.

I'd LIKE to say that. But it's a hot button. And everyone is capable of saying (typing) things they don't always mean in the heat of the moment.  :o

I mean a part of what makes this forum great is that we DO share so much of our lives and interests with one another. While the main thrust of the conversation still revolves around baldness, head shaving and related topics, we also talk about our hobbies, likes, dislikes, movies, music, relationships, etc. So an forum for politics seems like a natural outgrowth of that sharing. And there have been topics posted from time to time that do involved political and religious opinions, for the most part without incident.

All that said, I do belong to another online forum that simply added a section that they call "Fight Club". This is where they put any and all topics that may prove volatile. It's a no holds barred arena for sensitive issues and everyone agrees that what is discussed in and happens in "Fight Club", stays in "Fight Club". No carrying the discussion or disagreements over into other parts of the forum. Sort of a gentleman's agreement. These rules are or course, enforced by the moderators. :x!

This may not ultimately be the right answer for SBG, but it's worth thought.

Though, with the wonderous diversity of the internet outside the SBG forums, we may be safer to just error on the side of caution and leave such discussions off the forums entirely.  :)

wpruitt:
Political discussions, despite the best of intentions, always get out of hand.  Also, the printed word does not carry the emotions of the ones spoken.  Hence, something comes across in the reader's frame of mind; the intentions of the poster may or may not come across. 

Politics is best left to a board intended for that purpose, or to be discussed in PM's.

Nonick:
I say no, for all the reasons previously mentioned.  :Xo!
It's not what this forum is about and it would degrade quickly.  Some people have enough on their plate trying to decide on whether shave, buzz, combover, do drugs rugs and plugs, etc.  8)

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