You have been very critical of the owner, administrator, management and this forum. You have not contributed one post to improve life, knowledge, or well being of the forum or its member. In addition, you have been working to undermine India in the name of Hindutva.
Majority of Tamil Brahmins are passive in practicing their life. They are not violent anti-minority. So your views are marginal at best.
Dear Mr Praveen,
I do not think Political discussions should be banned from the forum.
The issue is not with the topic area but how it is argued. If people were to stick to the issues and present points and counter points, that is healthy. In simple terms what is needed is people follow the rules and guidelines of the forum as it is laid out.
But innuendos, direct name calling, inability to know the difference between responding to content versus attacking a poster and many such acts by a few have made the forum very distasteful. Hence I can empathize with few who want poltical discussions removed.
Case in point is the response by the above poster in this thread. Civility and not attacking a member while responding have to be enforced (even it if takes effort).
We never had issues in the past with vigorous content oriented debates. But too many copy and paste variety from select sources to promote a point of view has to be highly discouraged. In political sections, it is important that a member do not exceed 2 or 3 copy and paste posts per month. If members have to take time to write their opinions using source material (they must reference them) without abuse of 'copy and paste', discussions can be very engaging.
Let me quote a positive example. Mr KB who is a long time contributor often writes well, and provides reference as well. I may not agree with his view point always but it is engaging to read his points. So it is possible to have good debates.
It is not the quantity of posts that count for many of us, it is quality of posts and how inviting it is to participate in the forum. Many of us are turned off by attacks and content lacking originality. We are not asking anyone to write a treatise or thesis but there has to be thoughtful contributions.
I fully understand that in a forum such as this there are no cost effective means to deal with content based moderation (and besides it will never work). However, strong action is warranted against personal attacks, and those that abuse the forum guidelines and rules (especially repeat offenders).
There has to be warning against too many copy and post variety of posts.
If that is not feasible, by polling we can have consensus to move posts into a bulk or junk section of abusers.
My suggestion is to keep the political discussions as is but with some actions to protect the image of the forum. My focus, while providing suggesitons, is only to protecting the positive image of the forum and to help encourage good debates.
