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Originally Posted by webmaster
I appear to be losing this war. The members who responded in this thread almost unanimously agreed that this forum should be "lake only" and yet the number of non-lake related posts keep rising. The "Laconia jobless/unemployed" and "Health Care in the Lakes Region" threads are just a few examples.
It seems like the members want the forum to be lake-only but just can't restrain themselves from posting about Obama, Health Care, Global Warming and other political issues. Maybe these issues are getting so large and important that they overwhelm the small local issues.
Without mass deletions I don't know how to stop this. I can't moderate everyone. I started this thread to propose an area where I could move these posts and members could post on these unrelated topics.
Considering this new wave of unrelated posts has anyone reconsidered their position? I'd still like to keep this forum "lake only" but, as I said, I seem to be losing the battle.
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This is why I was a proponent of the "Groan" button. It allows people to register dissatisfaction, without having to contribute a personalized negative viewpoint. The theory would be that if people are posting off-topic stuff, and those posts accumulate a couple of dozen "Groans", maybe they would get the hint without a full-on debate breaking out.
I know that people want to keep the forum friendly, and felt that the Groan button was UNfriendly, but the reality is that any society needs a way to register their feedback. That is currently being done in a less than effective (and less than polite in some cases) manner anyway.