Re: Is there a middle ground?

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@MaggieMack wrote:
Apparently there wasn't any "middle ground" on a post that got poofed an hour ago for being "political." I may have missed the last post, but I didn't see the thread as political. Someone must have reported it as political so the mods rushed off their tuffets to poof the thread. The only threads I report are those threads that get put in every forum selling something. Otherwise my attitude is live and let live.

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@MaggieMack

Hi Maggie, it was political, all right. That said, I agree with the legal action taken, and I do not support the sheriff.

That puts me on the side usually taken by conservative posters. So be it.

MaggieMack · ‎10-01-2014

@Noel7, thank you. I saw the "potential," but not the actual. I looked at it through the lens of my heart rather than the lens of my politics.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@MaggieMack wrote:
@Noel7, thank you. I saw the "potential," but not the actual. I looked at it through the lens of my heart rather than the lens of my politics.

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@MaggieMack

Don't worry about it, Maggie

It was a case of "you had to be there" to know the story behind the story. There was no reason to assume everyone knew what had gone on.

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

I thought I responed to this topic last month, I may have been poofed. No I don't think there is a middle ground here or anywhere these days when you discuss religion, politics or anything controversial. I know I'm tired of the same old lines and way of thinking and having to comply and take into consideration. I don't think the boards are boring, but all the lively discussions of the past are gone. I don't miss the mean girls though.LOL

Lucky Charm · ‎03-09-2010

To be fair, mean girls on both sides. To be fair.

RainCityWoman · ‎06-16-2015

@Lucky Charm wrote:
To be fair, mean girls on both sides. To be fair.

Then again, maybe they aren't mean at all. Maybe they simply do not agree with one another and are adamant in making their points.

hckynutjohn · ‎06-15-2015

@RainCityWoman wrote:

Then again, maybe they aren't mean at all. Maybe they simply do not agree with one another and are adamant in making their points.

Yeh!

hckynut(john)

IamMrsG · ‎08-29-2010

@RainCityWoman wrote:
@Lucky Charm wrote:
To be fair, mean girls on both sides. To be fair.
Then again, maybe they aren't mean at all. Maybe they simply do not agree with one another and are adamant in making their points.

There is nothing at all wrong with standing your ground or defending your opinion. There is plenty wrong, however, in doing so with inflammatory retorts and sly innuendo. Passive aggressive is still aggressive.

Strive for respect instead of attention. It lasts longer.

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

There is just flat out no *need* to discuss either politics or religion on a shopping channel forum, as the items sold never relate to the former and only narrowly to the latter.

The only reason to inject either politics or religion into existing threads, or starting threads about politics or religion, is to promote a POV about politics or religion. Besides being against standards for this forum, this has been traditionally viewed by society in general as rude, tacky, and fully intending to deliberately "start something."

I dislike the concept of including either politics or religion on these forums for discussion of any kind, benign or not. It has no place on a shopping channel forum.

QVC, however, has decided that not only politics, but anything any given poster decides shouldn't be there, regardless of whether it violates standards or not, can be and usually is deleted, while at the same time routinely deleting what any given poster reports as an "anti-Christian" comment, while routinely leaving intact the plainly bigoted posts of those who bash other religions and other cultures and those who follow no organized religion.

If there was NO political commentary of any kind (no matter how "subtle", vague or "clever") and NO mention of ANY religion outside of specific religious threads in one specific area, 80% of the nastiness would vanish and I think we'd find the remaining 20% easier to deal with.

Life without Mexican food is no life at all