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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (39329)	8/24/2005 8:44:17 PM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 90947

It's long been common knowledge that I've had a problem with how much political discussion was happening compared to market discussion. That's not such a problem anymore. Political discussion hasn't died down, but stock discussion has picked up, improving the ratio quite a bit. And since we have to operate profitably to be able to operate at all, it's a good thing because, as Dave mentioned, we see little income from Political threads. Only the Premium-Plus subscriptions. No ad revenues. People who see ads are reading market-related posts for the most part. I suggested to your pardner Dave a long time ago that if you and he were so upset by the political threads, it was within your power to delete all that existed It's not the political threads. It's a few of their denizens. I don't care that we don't make money from these threads so long as they don't make work for Dave. The few bad apples result in a LOT of work for him. The revolt, Bob, has to do with fair and equal treatment, and is not raising Cain just to watch the dust get stirred up. And it's wider than you know. It's just that JLA and I decided to take it public. I don't think it's as wide as you think it is. Though it's one of the tougher subjects on which to do so (along with Religion), the majority of people who talk Politics here do it with quite a bit of civility for the most part. But if some people who only want to talk politics want to "revolt" and leave for greener pastures, I won't shed a tear. Talk of a huge "revolt" isn't going to impress me into bowing to the demands of a loud few in a part of the site I consider "baggage" to begin with. Baggage I don't mind carrying until it starts costing. It's almost as if some people are specifically trying to provoke us into shutting down these threads. Won't happen. Dave will just selectively swing the axe, which got honed quite a bit today with the addition of Suspension logic to the system.