<p>It was a lot of fun for a couple of days last week, but it’s clearer and clearer that 99% of the posters are committed to his/her candidate and nothing will change their minds. That’s fine. But some of the ridiculousness spewed forth in the past couple of days is just so over the top. Not fun at all. :(</p>
<p>so what DO you want to talk about? I’m game.</p>
<p>52 days to election redux.</p>
<p>OK, So tell me, Do, Ron Paul and Ralph Nadar, play together?</p>
<p>Agreed. I even find myself spewing in response. ugh. I particularly dislike the constant new threads pushing every negative story - no matter how stupid - about whichever candidate people oppose. There is a reason they say not to discuss politics and religion.</p>
<p>^^^ maybe Tom Brady can play with them now that it looks like he’s going to have some free time on his hands.</p>
<p>sure wish that CC would set up a politics subforum…</p>
<p>Oh, sorry. I posted and ran.</p>
<p>I see football already has come up. I love football. My Cowboys looked amazing today. But I see my second-favorite QB, Vince Young, was injured today, so that’s a bummer.</p>
<p>scualum, you are so right. I’ve noticed the dropoff in helpful, college-related postings in the past week. A politics subforum would be great. Really, if I had to go “looking” for the political threads on a separate forum, I probably wouldn’t bother, but seeing them here on the cafe makes it so easy to take a little peek. And then I roll my eyes and think “Now how does that ignore function work?”</p>
<p>I actually like these threads, they help me divert attention from beginning of school anxiety for my kids. Last time it happened I shopped a lot and bought tons of unnecessary things. I rather read political threads here.</p>
<p>Youdon’tsay - They need an ‘ignore a thread’ function. or something like parental control where you can block threads with particular words in it. Or we need self control so we don’t peek.</p>
<p>Hey, I stayed off cc entirely until 6 p.m. or so yesterday. I was so proud of myself. </p>
<p>Of the 20 threads showing on my screen right now, more than half are political in nature. If all the political threads were able to be removed from view, there might be nothing left!</p>
<p>I like those threads. In fact, now that my youngest is a soph in college, and my oldest is 24, and long ago dropped out of college, the political threads interest me more than do the ones on education. People who don’t like political threads can skip 'em.</p>
<p>nm: I agree. I haven’t been this interested in politics in a long time. Maybe because I have so much more time on my hands now, or maybe because it’s an interesting year. Either way, I like reading the threads and am glad that this forum is at least semi civilized. Others are just full of garbage so I’m glad I have these to read. It will go away soon enough and people who aren’t interested are free to ignore. Obviously many want to read, or they would quickly die out.</p>
<p>Since most of my friends and coworkers have the same political views as I do, I find it fascinating to read the different perspectives here. It helps to understand the other side. Although I have had to use the ignore poster function for the first time.</p>
<p>Many of the political threads have degenerated into pure snarkyness (a technical term, mind you!). It’s depressing! I do read some in order to try to gain perspective on opposing points of view but then I find myself getting frustrated and depressed that nobody seems to be actually listening to anybody. They are often just being mean.</p>
<p>I am as snarky – snarkier! – than the next person. I love snark! But it’s often going past run-of-the-mill snark and into pure meanness. Oh, well.</p>
<p>I’m all in favor of people posting on politics - I’d just like to see it organized into one area so that those who want to participate know where to go - and those who chose not to don’t have to wade through the volume of posts on politics. The current volume is driving people away from the cafe (like me) and, in the long run, will result in a cafe that is a less robust, less vibrant, place to go on the net.</p>
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I’m a New England-er, so I definitely know how you feel on that count. Poor Brady. :(</p>
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I don’t think that’s true. The election will be over before too long, and the volume will die down considerably.</p>
<p>i agree
its chasing people,like me, away.there’s many many names missing lately in the cafe area ,not just in the political threads.
either seperate it or watch the cafe die or distinigrate into the same 10 people yelling at each other.</p>