Wait...

[ToonaRockGuy]

Does this mean that Rockpage can be about music again?

[kayla]

waahooo!!

[f.sciarrillo]

Hopefully.

[Jasaoke]

I'm not sure of the online way give a standing ovation, but I'd like to. Closing the political thread is one of the best things I've seen happen on Rockpage. I truly feel that it was a cancer upon the local scene and I am VERY excited to see musicianship and friendship flourish without it.

Many thanks, JP!

[kayla]

I truly feel that it was a cancer upon the local scene and I am VERY excited to see musicianship and friendship flourish without it.

Many thanks, JP!

+90000!!!

[lonewolf]

Yeah, pretty boring, eh?

[tornandfrayed]

Strikes ma as interesting that people requested the page be closed rather then just not read it!

But whatever, the "For Sale" thread is still there... Peace everybody!

[f.sciarrillo]

As a person who did waste some time in it, I am glad to see it go. After a while, it just gets so boring.

[whitedevilone]

It was as easy as not clicking on the thread.Oh well, yea for censorship ya zombies.

[sstuckey]

I thought Keith did a pretty courteous thing by setting up a thread to contain that drivel. It's just gonna end up leaking back out and infecting the rest of the posts like a plague. Is that locusts I hear? nah.....it's just U.C. Joe calling Songsmith a douche nozzle 100 million times!! HA HA HA HA

[Banned]

It was as easy as not clicking on the thread.Oh well, yea for censorship ya zombies.

One thread among 11,400 bothered so many nannies?

[StumbleFingers]

it's just U.C. Joe calling Songsmith a douche nozzle 100 million times

Sadly, that's how a lot of people perceive Rockpage.

[bfoust]

I don't get it. It's not that hard to add an "Off topic" forum and move it all there. It's just a few clicks.

[lonewolf]

I don't get it. It's not that hard to add an "Off topic" forum and move it all there. It's just a few clicks.

That might even be worse. When you go to the forums page, the "OFF TOPIC" link would always be marked as "updated since your last visit."

Instead of just ignoring a thread, people might be inclined to click the OT link to see if there were other topics of interest, only to find another political update.

[KeithReynolds]

It was a place to keep all the BS, and even that wasnt good enough anymore. Whatever. Doesnt bother me, I dont care for politics anyway.
If it was closed because of name calling, it shouldve been closed a year ago.

What have we learned? Stay within the red tape.

[f.sciarrillo]

Having a hidden forum that is only accessed by subscription, or group only would work. I've done that type of thing numerous times while creating VBulletin forums. Thing is that I'm not sure if you can do it with PHPbb. I am guessing that they might have a hack for it by this time?

[bassist_25]

Choosing not to click on the thread was easy, but I think Bobby summed it up pretty well when he said that it's one of the first things newbies are gonna read and get turned off on Rockpage. It was a source of amusement for me and I'm sure others, but someone new may have read that and thought we were just a bunch of assholes.

As far as censorship, Rockpage is a private website (there are a bunch of you here who hold private property rights paramount, no?), so we're all allowed to post here by the grace of Ron. It's not 4chan, but Rockpage is probably one of the most lax forums I've ever frequented since my time on the Internet. At my primary forum haunt, the actors in the political thread would have been banned years ago. I'm not making a value judgment on that one way or another, but just throwing a frame of reference out there.

[onegunguitar]

It's kinda boring now...

[tonefight]

I though this was going to be about an old song by White Lion.