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Rob87
Well, the only problem I have with this board is that there's (1) no general forum (what forum doesn't have one other than THR?) and that (2) every kind of intolerance is not allowed here unless it's an anti-liberal comment.
Well, Rob, you've been with us since late April. During that time, you've seen the
Legal & Political forum go through a transformation and become simply the
Legal forum. If you were reading the forum during that period, you probably have a pretty good sense of why that happened.
Some time before that -- and before I, myself, became a member here -- we had something called "The Round Table," which was a general discussion forum. The site owner (Oleg) decided that, in the interests of maintaining the primary purpose of The High Road, the Round Table forum would be closed here, and moved to another "sister" site,
Armed Polite Society (or APS -- you'll find the link in the upper right-hand corner of the page). Oleg owns both sites. The mod staffs are different and have their own personalities. If you haven't already been over to APS, you should go check it out. You'll see many of the same "faces" over there.
When the
Political side of L&P was closed, it was moved over to
APS so that such discussions could continue without disrupting the primary discussion traffic of firearms-related topics -- guns, gun rights, gun control, gun laws, and so on.
Rob, I can understand how it might puzzle you that we are intolerant of intolerance here -- and yet seem to tolerate intolerance of the philosophy most committed to destroying gun rights.
It's hard to be perfect. Not every political remark is going to get caught in the mod nets, not every jab at public figures who are on record as actively infringing on the RKBA. Where possible, we try to keep the discussion to principles.
You might be surprised to hear that we get complaints from people on both philosophical sides that we're allowing slander of their beliefs/policies/candidates/etc. -- and in fact we've had people get indignant on
both sides, complaining
about the same exact post!
Oh, well. Sometimes you just can't win.
We strive to uphold the standards.
In the end, take what you can use, and leave the rest.