OK WTF

[uw_madtown]

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I said the "marketing tool" argument could never be logically consistant, but I still think it's valid. There's going to be some things that will make an owner go "hmm... no, this is our name on the line" and a thread about a 15 year old girl probably does that moreso than say, PJN's posts.

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This is probably true. But if you take the forum in its entirety, I think such advertisers would probably be scared away anyway. I mean, threads on "how long was your first time," "what's your biggest log," comparing different vaporizors, and tons of discussion re: underage drinking, porn, etc...

You get my point. I just find the "marketing tool" thing silly. I do understand why a thread like this crosses a particular line, although I'd think things like the vaporizer discussion would too, since it's basically several users helping others to do something illegal.

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start your own website and talk about whatever you want

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grassontheinfield.org. Not a good idea to do this, however.

[El Barto]

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New topic in the politics forum if anybody cares.

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I think this discussion is better suited for OOT than the politics forum. You were just talking about desire and such. It doesn't have much of anything to do with politics.

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Your locking of the thread in politics was your first clear moderating mistake.

This is a political issue clearly, we have lots of controversial laws and policies regarding it (amber alerts, sexual predator registrations, different age limits in different states, etc.) Laws are passed all the time based on what people think are legitimate "desires" or not, that is part of the political discussion.

The type of response one gets from a thread is different when you post it in politics instead of OOT. You should not be making the decision that the politics forum regulars should not be discussing this political issue while OOT regulars should be.

Locking threads for personal attacks is one thing, locking threads due to it political content is another. Please do better next time (and you were doing so well for the past month too).