I will make sure this is the official policy... although it could be, I don't know. I sent an email to the guy who made the point asking what was the policy of the board... I can see that the board like this should be mostly about politics, but at the same time one should be able to talk about anything within reason as long as it is not offensive. Now if all of the sudden everyone is talking about home improvement... then I could see restraining that aspect of the discussions some what... a question of balance.
I must be missing something here. Admittedly I haven't read the thread any further down than the post I responded to. Did somebody take you to task over this thread?
If so, allow me to publicly tell them to blow it out their ....
There, that's better.