I'm just going to throw this out here and then not say anything else about it:
Oh, for the love of...
Mr. Tweedy. We just walked away from a large bonfire that was constantly threatening to break out of control, and for which ground had to be recleared and sparks stamped out several times.
Now you want to come back to that forest campground and drop napalm over it.
NO.I don't know if you're being a deliberate troll, or an oblivious one, but I'm not going to let this continue. We've got a pretty good community here. Yes, diverse points of view are fine, and yes this is a board for miscellaneous topics, but this is not a community built
for the purpose of arguing about abortion, or religion, or other topics that are obviously inflammatory and that have never, in the history of the Internet, persuaded anyone to change their point of view. This community is about Escape Artists podcasts first, related topics (SF, horror, writing, etc.) second, and unrelated topics way off on the horizon. It'd be all too easy to reverse those priorities by bringing everyone's energy permanently down onto topics like this -- or driving good people away with it.
We began with one rule: don't insult anyone. You're now forcing the creation of a second rule. I don't know what the specific wording should be yet, and I welcome discussion on it in the Metachat forum, but I do know it needs to prohibit what you just did. (I.e., create a new topic just to lob a grenade -- sorry, "throw this out here" -- about a highly sensitive and divisive topic, then run for cover and watch people argue.)
This post is not an attempt on your part to be a friendly peer of this community. This is provocation, it is antisocial, and it is unacceptable. I'll figure out the policy on it later.
Meanwhile, this thread is locked. Since there
was no policy before, just to let you have your little point, I'm going to let it sit here locked for a few days, at least through the weekend. Sometime next week I will delete it. If anyone really wants to respond to you about what they think of what your wife thinks, they can PM you. You can have any discussion you want to
privately.
If I've pissed you off, you can PM me. Feel free, because you've
really pissed
me off.
You may think it's fun to poke this community with sticks, but I do not. And that's the other reason I'm leaving this up for a few days before deleting it: to let everyone here know that
this shit will not stand.
Are we clear?
Flames on
this, bring them over to Metachat.