[Ima Lurker]

I agree with you. As a matter of fact, I enjoy a good rough and tumble exchange of ideas now and then. I don't even mind the name calling because that just proves that I've won the debate. The only time anyone resorts to name calling is when they can't defend their position.

[Sabertooth]

I agree with you. As a matter of fact, I enjoy a good rough and tumble exchange of ideas now and then. I don't even mind the name calling because that just proves that I've won the debate. The only time anyone resorts to name calling is when they can't defend their position.

At a certain point, however, the namecalling overwhelms a thread and it gets moved to the Backroom. While rougher language is allowed there, the effect is far from a free exchange of ideas. The Backroom is where nasty threads get hidden.

There has been a faction on the site that prefers it that way, so instigating flame wars to get threads nuked or moved became their M.O. Their intent has not been rough and tumble, it's been to stifle debate.

Another effect is that a lot of posters who don't care for all of the btterness have avoided the Illegal Alien threads altogether.

Civility is an enabler of the free exhcange of ideas.

[ClintonBeGone]

I agree with you. As a matter of fact, I enjoy a good rough and tumble exchange of ideas now and then. I don't even mind the name calling because that just proves that I've won the debate. The only time anyone resorts to name calling is when they can't defend their position.

Exactly. I can understand a few zaps for profanity or very poor word choices, but the gist of our passion needs a place to be expressed without running to the mods for censorship of the other side.