Anything that can be done to excise politcal diatribes from technical discussions is fine by me.
It had gotten to the point where I avoided even looking at some Slashdot topics I suspected might lend themselves to degrading into political rants. That sorely broke my heart.
I'm glad you guys are helping out. I know that there are no promises but I'm happy that, at least, my chances of reading about Bill Clinton's use of cigars while learning about a new ReiserFS enhancement or George Bush's "lies, lies, lies" while hearing feedback about a Linux roll-out somewhere are reduced.
You can make that political forum lean as far left or as far right as you like because there's no damn way I'm going to even take a peek.
--Richard
PS: Yeah, I know that technology is intertwined with politics but you know what I mean. Less is better and you just do what you can.
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It had gotten to the point where I avoided even looking at some Slashdot topics I suspected might lend themselves to degrading into political rants. That sorely broke my heart.
I'm glad you guys are helping out. I know that there are no promises but I'm happy that, at least, my chances of reading about Bill Clinton's use of cigars while learning about a new ReiserFS enhancement or George Bush's "lies, lies, lies" while hearing feedback about a Linux roll-out somewhere are reduced.
You can make that political forum lean as far left or as far right as you like because there's no damn way I'm going to even take a peek.
--Richard
PS: Yeah, I know that technology is
intertwined with politics but you
know what I mean. Less is better and
you just do what you can.