Political Board

[Ryan]

We have decided to give the political board a little bit of a break here at MWO.  I understand that a lot of you like to talk politics, but it is just getting to the point that it is a headache for our staff to keep up with.  Hopefully everyone here can respect this decision.

[kenhuntin]

good call

[The General]

Not a problem.  I have not or don't run a website, but could you explain what you have to keep up with?  By that I mean.  That I do believe it may take a lot of time to run the entire site but what specifically do you have to "keep up with" with just the political board that takes so much time and effort?

[Ryan]

I personally am not complaining about my time, but I hear a lot of complaints from staff and members about what happens on the political board.  No one gets paid to be here so I would like to keep the problems to a minimum.  The political board has been a problem lately and this is how it is being taken care of for now.

[Cody Gruchow]

i say its the constant personal attacks and name calling and the arguements tend to stray out of the political board and spill out into the other forums

[The General]

i say its the constant personal attacks and name calling and the arguements tend to stray out of the political board and spill out into the other forums

That only happened 1 time that I can remember where it left the political forum.  I erased what I wrote and said I was sorry in the mountain lion thread.  Heck don't punish the rest of the people for something I did.  Plus if it's not your cup of tea don't go there.  I know I don't give a rats butt about Photography so I don't visit that section. Not that there isn't some tremendous things in there or anything like that.   

[Cody Gruchow]

well when the members only post in the political and no were else i see it as a problem also. but im not a "decision maker". why come to an outdoors website to talk politics?

[Ryan]

This has nothing to do with what one member did.  We have had complaints about this board for quite awhile and this is the solution for now.

[The General]

I hope Cody's last post wasn't directed at me.  Anytime someone asks a question I have some knowledge on I will gladly and do help out.  In case you haven't seen my post of my leech lake vacation that took me over a half hour to do.  I also read every post in sections I have interests and knowledge about.  If there was a section on Willmar-Spicer area lakes I'd post there too, but because I don't fish the lakes or areas that are listed I don't even bother looking at them.  Minus a couple trips a year I make to the pond and the annual trip I will be making to lake of the woods after last year.  Plus now that I'm thinking of it didn't a person have to ask to be allowed into the political section?