Your Attention Please [Breaking News and WoD Flamewars]

[Admin Moderator]

Since my last vanity announcement on keywords went so swimmingly (it ended up with something like 5000 keywords added to it) I thought a great idea would be to throw some propane on some other fires with a vanity.

Breaking news is being abused again, big time. This goes in cycles, with sometimes people being responsible, but other times people not being very responsible.

We are in one of the not-very time periods.

Please, do not post something in Breaking News because you think it is something you want people to see. Place something in Breaking News only if it is

1. Something the networks would interrupt their programming to say,
2. The networks would interrupt their programming to say if they weren't overwhelmingly liberal,
3. Something that honestly would (not should, would) be of interest to majority of self-described conservatives
4. Official chapter announcements

Or things along those lines. Don't consider that a list of rules, but of guidelines. But act as if the guidelines matter, please. And flame the heck out of people that don't. And provide appropriate feedback to people who don't.

Some things that are never breaking news: Stories that have been posted before, stories that are over a day old, opinion vanities, freep this poll, or anything from the op-ed section of any newspaper.

Now, on to the WoD [War on Drugs] flamewars. There are a few problems with them. The flaming on them is tremendous. It is wrong for several reasons, and it should stop and the first thing we are going to do to try to get them to stop is to make a request for them to stop. If you feel the need to flame someone for something they say on one of these threads, do this (and yes, it involves a lot more work than just hitting reply, but such is life):

1. Post a copy of the article to the Smokey Backroom
2. Ping your flamee to that copy.
3. Go to town over there and keep the crap off the main forum.

Instead of hitting abuse on someone on a WoD thread right away (unless it is extremely bad), please just advise them to do what I am saying here- take it to the backroom. Link them to this if need be. And if you don't want to get into a flamewar, leave it at that. If you do, then join them in the backroom and have at it. The WoD flamewars overwhelm the latest posts page with a neverending sequence of posts that are just mindless insults. Please, spare us, and don't try to put it on the moderators to determine who fired the first shot. There are rarely clean hands here, and no matter what we do one side or another is going to complain.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Freeping. I expect no fewer than 500 taunts at us in the keywords here before this is over. Thank you, and God Bless. ;-)

[jayef]

We want society like China. China society good. Let's be like China.

[Dane]

Depends on how you define utter failure.

The make pot legal effort in Nevada; millions of dollars, billboards, TV ads, thousands of volunteers...now the was an UTTER FAILURE.

LOL! In a state where every other sin and vice is legal and celebrated 24/7...utter and complete failure.

I did notice in the newspaper that three more drug dealers are off the streets which is far from failure.

That big defeat in Nevada did stick into their craw. I have been monitoring their responses from your reply #186 to reply #228 and it seems that defeat let a lot of air out of their tires.

But they are, IMHO, have the same mindset as the 60's pro-pot anti-war retreads we see splattered on TV.

They are living in a lost era, the 60's.

Here's an example of their giddiness.

Legal pot winning in Nevada ("Nevada to vote on making dope legal")

[dennisw]

Another "Kill em All" proponent.

Yes. I believe all large scale heroin, crack, cocaine, meth. pushers should be executed. Kill them before they kill others with their poison. I'll bet you're gonna call me a statist. LOL! Your supply just may dry up, pal.

[toothless]

"Your supply just may dry up, pal."

And the sun might not come up in the morning.

[CWOJackson]

A while back they had a lot of threads going about how the only reason they lost was because the administration had sent a spokesman out to Nevada to spread lies about pot.

They had over a thousand volunteers, spent millions of dollars on advertising, they were way up in the polls...against this one mousey guy (I say clips from one of his talks). Somehow this one guy was able to sway the voters of Nevada against legal pot?

Like I told one of them before, that's like getting your ass whipped in public by Don Knotts. Now they don't want to talk about it...but they're winning.

[CWOJackson]

This is too good to not share. I made a duplicate thread over in the smokey backroom. This was just posted to me on it:

"Since it's about always the Drug Warriors who post the flames why not just give them a 30 day ban and keep the thread in the light of day. It's revealing to see the lengths the pro WOsD crowd will go to to support their Constitution destroying cash cow. Guess they don't want to expose the idiocy."

Read that through a couple of time.

The poster's tag line is: (Censorship, the last resort of weak minds)

Libertarian rationale at it's finest?

[jayef]

My supply of what?

[tacticalogic]

Is it just me, or do you guys get the feeling that nothing is really going to change

I get the feeling that nothing is going to change by reasonable requests and polite prodding from the AM.

[AUgrad]

Lest anyone wonder which side is interested in debate, and which side is interested in throwing off the gloves at center ice . . . there it is for all to see.

You gotta admit, throwing off the gloves is the best part of most hockey games(minor league anyway).

[toothless]

At first I tried to make logical arguements. Turns out everybody's mind is already made up so its just as easy to post images like this:

[CWOJackson]

If you do go back through this entire thread you will see he only says things like that when they are down three goals.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

If you do go back through this entire thread you will see he only says things like that when they are down three goals.

Now, if I were like you I would've cried because I wasn't pinged to this response.

[AUgrad]

Offer compulsory treatment to their stupid addicted customers.

How does one "offer" "compulsory" treatment?

[maxwell]

"ADMIN IS A TROLL"... BWAHAHA! I'm sorry Daryl, I can't seem to get past the keywords... What were you saying?

[BureaucratusMaximus]

I'm with you. Execute all large volume drug pushers. Exile pot dealers to 3rd world nations. We make a deal with Swaziland for example, to take them for $5,000 a head.

Pushers are the scum of the earth. China executes them and we should do the same. Offer compulsory treatment to their stupid addicted customers.

And after that we can go after cigarette, alcohol, soft porn, and bad movie manufacturers too. And while were at it...why don't we go after home schoolers, Christians, and gun owners as well! Absolutely no tolerance to even the most indirect forms of or deviance, subversion, criticizing, or independence of and/or from the state should be tolerated.

/HEAVY SARCASM

[CWOJackson]

Cry? I was delighted. Like great coffee, a few slices of you makes my morning so much better.

[Timesink]

Now, on to the WoD [War on Drugs] flamewars. There are a few problems with them. The flaming on them is tremendous. It is wrong for several reasons, and it should stop and the first thing we are going to do to try to get them to stop is to make a request for them to stop.

I have what I know will be considered a CRAZY suggestion, but if tried, it just might work: How about, when "Report Abuse" is used to report someone for launching personal attacks, the attacker gets suspended instead of the person reporting the abuse? Maybe, just MAYBE, that might cut down on the flamewars.

[Skooz]

Welcome back, but you've materialized in the middle of a WOD flame war...DUCK!

[Timesink]

Thank you, but I'm not sure I'm remaining. I just saw the mindboggling Admin duplicity on this thread and saw a chance to call a spade a spade. I still don't see the point of staying where I'm irrelevant.

[MrLeRoy]

your voting block is getting smaller.

Provide evidence for your claim.