COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)
This thread needs moved to the map board and maybe we can just do a link only update thread here. I like seeing the info
@superchuck500 posts along with a few others but it's getting pretty ridiculous to have to read through 2 pages of people crying about politics to get to them.
you've contributed to that, too, though
I don't understand how people can complain about a problem while contributing to it - unless there's an acknowledgement that 'yes, I've done it, too'
that includes me - I know my posts were getting a bit too political, so you know what? I stopped. It's not always easy, but it's easy not to make the explicitly political comments like you did.
First, I'd say that if you're ever in doubt, then just post totally and obviously non-political stuff, which you've done plenty of times in the thread. It was really beneficial to follow, for example, what was happening in your own household and in your state. One of the few voices in this thread from that area of the country.
My aunt, who lives in Cincinnati, believes DeWine to be a pretty awful governor, overall, but has largely given him props for how he's been handling this pandemic.
You've talked about - and praised - DeWine's response. That's political, obviously. But it's also within the bounds of the parameters the moderators have set.
Second recommendation, when in doubt - report the post. Don't reply to it, trust the mods. The work they've been doing in this thread has been, I think, remarkably consistent. And I say that as someone who has had posts deleted by them.
It gets old to see repeated demands or recommendations to move it to the MAP board. It's been established the place and tone and content of this thread. I suppose you could go somewhere else online and find a thread. But I seriously doubt you'd find better than this. Follks on this board, esp props to
@bclemms , who were on this early. This is a valuable repository of information, and most of it is objective and informed, with some speculative subjective, but still informed.
Third, I'd assume good intent. For the posts that tread a line, assume the poster is putting something there that is meaningful and measured. I didn't even think your endorsements for DeWine, for example, were along party lines. I never thought you were simply touting a politician because he sports a tag.
I think you should extend the same consideration to others when they are praising or criticizing policy. It's not specifically about a politician here or there but rather the decisions said politician is making. There are a lot more posters in this thread who are deliberately trying to abide by the thread's intentions. Posters are self-aware and routinely saying, "I know this is getting too political" and censoring themselves or bringing attention to mods' so that they can edit the post if they see fit.
It just happened a few posts ago.
The majority on this thread - from all sides - deserve a bit more credit than you've been giving recently. And I think that goes for anyone who thinks this thread is getting 'too political' in a negative way, regardless of which side you think the politicizing is coming from.