It is extremely sad that the edited number of posts in this thread outnumber the actual posts because of political content. THR is going down the drain.
No. If you'll go back and pull up old posts, you'll see that several have been edited or locked because the topic was drifting into a political slugfest. This is nothing new.
Again, we don't do this because we get our jollies from lording it over anyone. We do it because:
A. It's off-topic, and doesn't appear to be salvageable.
B. It's turned into a political debate instead of a gun-related discussion.
And C...Because we've noticed that a few of the combatants are drawing close to a ban.
We don't like to ban people, especially people who have been good members for months or years...and letting one slip in the heat of the moment get them booted. "A stitch in time" comes to mind. "Putting out fires" also applies.
You'll also notice that I edited the posts with no further action...not even a warning to any of the participants. More than that, I hard deleted them instead of soft deleting so that they couldn't be reviewed by senior admin who could have possibly banned them anyway...and likely would have after I'd stepped in and tried to steer it back on course.
Seems that I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. Ah, well. Onward...
This is the third time I've tried to make this clear, even though I didn't have to do it even the first time. I won't try again. Either you get it or you don't.
Armed Polite Society is available for such discussions. All ya gotta do is hit the link and go get'em.
Wow.....
