Quote Originally Posted by tony View Post
To address this and points other people made.

A. Bah to danger.
B. Besides, you're not considering that shutting down the board is a test to see whether I care enough to come back.
C. If we allow even a single thread devoted to politics, I already know what will happen: BisonX will be posting in a thread totally unrelated to politics and BisonY will start gibbering insults like <insert the name of a contemptible, human stain of a political pundit>'s demented parrot. Heck, I see it now and I don't have a clue where these beefs originated.
D. So I shut down the board for a day... now, if somebody else decides to post a political screed tomorrow, that tells me something that simply banning a person would not.
E. If I had banned ndsusr there be a chorus of whining because I didn't ban somebody else some other time. I'd definitely get a PM about it. And people would start whining on AGS too... and snarky comments would appear in totally unrelated threads. The goals is less crap, not more so that's counter-productive.
That is pretty reasonable.