Political/Controversial topics

[Ollkiller]

Leave as is. There's a healthy level of discussion on here I find. And as to politics on a music forum.. It's called the off topic section.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I'm deducing that since he hasn't posted in a month and a half, since the very day of his last run in with Kurt Cocaine, that we've probably lost Burgermeister/Juggz. Off-topic was also the cause of hellfire, Kev, and probably several others leaving too. The problem is a general one of difficulty of engaging in good faith discussion. This comes to a head regarding metal every so often, where people take opinion for fact and get thick-headed about it, or can't take as strong as they give, but it's about 100 times more likely regarding anything political.

It's great having an off-topic for non-metal music and other "purely" cultural interests (movies, books, sport, telly) but at this stage I'd cast my ballot for having the forum a politics free zone, and even lock the existing politics threads, as it's not worth losing more members over... especially since, as I know well from my own experience, political views and taste in metal don't necessarily overlap at all at all.

[Barnacle Billy]

What a tart