The reason why we have off-topic forums for Politics and Religion is because we learned the hard way that people are going to post about those topics no matter what. So if there's no designated areas for that type of discussion, people will post about these subjects anyway throughout the various trading forums. So we figured it would be best to create a corral for those discussions than to constantly be deleting posts, providing explanations to users, banning people, etc.
like, "we could not contain illegal prostitution all over the city so we gave the Johns and hoes and pimps a nice cordoned off area to go about their business so that the Johns can carry their STD back home without much drama", or "let's not police the whole city anymore but leave an area where the savages and gangstas can freely roam and knock each other out". I get it, thanks for clarifying.
LOL, one of the great lessons learned dealing with the public is how many assholes there are in the world. One of the great lessons dealing with the public through a business structure of anomynity is how many determined assholes there are in the world.
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That makes total sense! I sometimes wander onto that side of ET and generally shake my head at the first thread I see... I would be very annoyed to see those pop-up in the normal sections. I also see a lot of people with 10k+ posts on P+R who I never see in the regular trading related sections... so it works, good on ya!
I think Baron is a forum design and marketing genius. He could probably start a consultancy for forums in other domains. Maybe he has one already. ET looks incredibly simple, but that is because Baron has done an incredible job hiding the complexity under the hood. And btw, this structure allows your trading related posts to be routed to collocated machines at 350 E. Cermak.
I see your point but it's misleading of mgt to pretend as if only those two choices exist. It takes one mouse click for Baron or Magna to ban people. They can do so with my or anyone's account at any point in time. Then it's easy to screen for identical IPs even in light of the fact some may use proxy servers or vpns. It does not keep the most egregious pest away but 99% of hatred and racism would be gone from one day to another. Imho it's a cheap excuse to tolerate racism and bigotry in thread B in order to keep it out of thread A.
A good example is shown below for a thread about Bloomberg News: https://elitetrader.com/et/threads/...e-saved-1-100-jobs-at-a-carrier-plant.308169/ While another thread about Bloomberg Politics can be kept in the Economics forum. https://elitetrader.com/et/threads/trump-vows-to-put-ceos-to-work-restoring-us-manufacturing.307116/