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I'm all for Don's suggestion! 

 "All anyone needs to know about whether Oli wants people to post political/religious threads is that he has deleted them en masse on more than one occasion."  (DD)

True enough! 

I believe the two primary reason politics and religion should be avoided at all costs are as follows:

1.  This is a dog forum.  When Oli first divided into breed specific and general he actually did state the reason he added the general topics was so that dog  topics related to all breeds would be visible to everyone, where as topics specific to a breed would only appear under that breed.

2.  These types of discussions  always devolve into personal attacks and people basically repeating themselves over and over again, but using slightly different words and phrases.   It's the nature of the beast, it serves no purpose, other than the selfish needs of the one doing the  venting.   I am pretty sure not one single person has ever been swayed to change their core, secondary or even their peripheral political or religious beliefs because of what they read on this dog forum.  In short it's not productive and in fact is destructive to the forum.

I think another good idea might be an "ignore" button.  But what I would like to see is every time people post, if anyone has put them on their "ignore" list, the names of all the people who ignore that person would show up on the bottom of every post the ignored person makes.   

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Sue lets be fair now ! Oli has deleted several threads that were not political or religous in nature!  So please do not point the finger at others when you yourself are stinking from non dog posts!!!Sue your tongue is quite vicous and you are quilty as much if not more than everyone else so take your self righteous self on down the road!

You can make up a "real name" just as easily as you can make up a user name. That won't solve anything.
Moderators, abusive post flagging, banning attempts wouldn't be needed at all if everyone here would do just one simple thing. It's called grow up and act like adults. Half the trash spewed on this board wouldn't come out of anyone's mouth to their mother or even in an an old run down hole in the wall bar.

...or if the person they're addressing could reach across the table and bitch slap them.

"...or if the person they're addressing could reach across the table and bitch slap them." (Keith Grossman)

hehehhehhehehe......exactly!

 "You can make up a "real name" just as easily as you can make up a user name."

Not if a credit card is required for verification purposes only.

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