I hate your favourite political party.

[Rapscallion]

The thread title's based on a T-shirt I first saw in the Junkman's Daughter in Atlanta in 2006, though it said 'band' instead.

We've very recently had a communication from someone accusing us of having political bias. The account signed up last year, has had two posts approved, and was still in new member automatic moderation. There was no evidence in any of the posts that said poster was even in a customer-facing position. The latest post was very political, so we deleted it and informed the poster of the rules.

Apparently we're pro one political side in the US arena, and therefore 'cuntwits'. All of us on the moderating team.

The sad fact that said former poster missed is that this site is apolitical - we don't do politics. He also missed the slight fact that we're owned by a Brit and hosted in Britainlandialand. I don't burn effigies of US political figures on my lawn every night, and I don't masturbate myself to sleep gazing lovingly into the two-dimensional eyes of the one I favour on an hourly basis. Well, unless it's Sarah Palin, but that's because she's a MILF, but that's between me and my conscience. I take no interest in her politics.

That's the important part. We aren't here to debate politics or have Internet fights. There are plenty of places for that. Don't like this? Google will show you plenty of places where you can kick and scream and raise your blood pressure to fountainous levels. Here is where we have a community - people come from all political and religious views, but they leave that at the door so they can engage in communal venting and support. If you can't do that, and if you're only here to spread political crap, try asking yourself if you really should have abused those kittens this morning.

Just an open letter to the latest banned poster.

Rapscallion

[fireheart]

Ugh. Aaaaand yet again, another reason why I prefer CS.com to the groups on Facebook. When I mentioned that they go out of topic too easily, they tend to degenerate into fights of the above.

But uh...:wtf:

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

The thread title's based on a T-shirt I first saw in the Junkman's Daughter in Atlanta in 2006, though it said 'band' instead.


I used to have a shirt like that. Only it said "Your Favorite Band Sucks" instead.

[Evil Queen]

Politics? What's that? :D

[SG15Z]

I :love: this site! It's nice to know that we don't go there and remain focused on what the site's about!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I :love: this site! It's nice to know that we don't go there and remain focused on what the site's about!

We try to not please everyone and apparently the person mentioned in the OP is proof of that.

This is what we live for.:p

[MadMike]

Just an open letter to the latest banned poster.


That was beautiful! Too bad he'll never see it.

[Ghel]

We try to not please everyone...

I LOVE the way you phrased that. :D

[blas]

If I may, a quick story.

Picture it, the Internet, 2005. A website which shall not be named, a board for people of a certain profession to rant about their job and customers (NOT this site, by the way. This was before I found CS.com).

This site had barely any moderators. This site had no rules. Everyone was fair game. Although it was hilarious to flame the trolls and the moderators would mess with their accounts, there were no rules. Members were fair game. If anyone disagreed with you, sometimes even the moderators would join in on the fun. That site WAS one sided when it came to politics (and trust me, that site oftentimes became more off-topic than work related), and flame wars were an every day occurance.

It got so bad I had to leave. I couldn't take it anymore. It really wasn't any fun to be on a site where people who were supposed to be on your side, in the same profession as you, dealing with the same people you do, would just turn against you for bringing up a difference in political stance or controversial stance and flame the bejesus out of you.

I'm glad we keep this site clean and have a sister site where we can debate like grown ups.

[powerboy]

I have to ask, WTF is wrong with the guy. My brain hurts after reading about the guy

[Shards]

I've been working retail on and off since my early high school years, and I have to say, I don't think this site specifically leans one way over the other, I think more often than not retail workers will lean a little bit to one side over the other when all other things are even. Personally, I lean the other way, but that's exactly why we have rules against politics. Keep your abortion-issue-opinion out of my stupid-customer-gets-what's-coming-to-him story, and we'll all be happy. If you must spread your views on politics, then take it to fratching. How this is such a difficult concept is beyond my understanding. I was 16 when I found this site, only had time to post/read during my classes that had computers, and lurked for a solid month or two before joining, and I swear by the second time I typed in customerssuck.com, I knew there was a separate place for politics. How is it so tough to figure out? If you're old enough to make your own income on a part-time or greater basis, as is the central theme of the site, then you're old enough to read the rules.

Sorry, I'm done ranting now.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Just out of curiosity, where can I read what this person posted?

[Rapscallion]

The political stuff didn't make it to visibility. The pertinent part of his reaction to being told that we don't do politics is in the first post.

Rapscallion

[Astrokitty]

I really appreciate the lack of politics on CS.com. I have my particular beliefs, even though they may be in the minority in the area I live in, I don't care to have to explain myself at every turn. There are plenty of other places to do that.

Thanks Mods. :salute:

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I appreciate it, too. I eat supper with my folks every Thursday night, and while I love my dad dearly, I get sick of having to constantly trying to steer the conversation away from politics. My dad can't discuss politics without going into a fanatical rant, and it gets old. So yeah, this place is refreshing.

What I can't figure is why the guy had to bring it here. There are plenty of places for him on the internet. What, this is the only forum of any sort he could find? :confused:

[Rapscallion]

People weren't openly saying what he wanted, and that seems to be reason enough for some.

Rapscallion

[Mike Taylor]

You did smack him repeatedly with the "TAKE IT TO FRATCHING!" sign, right, Raps?

[MadMike]

You did smack him repeatedly with the "TAKE IT TO FRATCHING!" sign, right, Raps?

Yes, he did, and he didn't like it. Funny thing is, the political comment me hade was completely irrelavent to the thread he was posting to, as if the political comment was his sole purpose for posting in the first place.

Some people just like to :potstir: and we don't need that here.

[smileyeagle1021]

oh, I'm so glad to have a politics free sancuary like CS... don't get me wrong, I love a good political debate (I'm active in fratching too and will occassionally have mature debates with mature guests... yet they do exist :p ) ...but it's nice to once in a while have somewhere to go to where it can be just about the social interaction, no debate required.

[fireheart]

You did smack him repeatedly with the "TAKE IT TO FRATCHING!" sign, right, Raps?

Do we even HAVE a sign like that? We so should have a smiley for it :p