JustInTime

[JimmyinSD]

Dude, you need to just step off.  If you can't handle the personal side of a forum, then just stay quiet.  Personal topics have always been a part of this board.  It builds the community and comradery.

you beat me to it.... this is a football community,  personal shares are just fine on here,  just not religion and politics because those will wreck any community given time.

some can handle it,  some cant.

[Zanary]

While I agree that there is a place for sensitive topics here...very few people ever go to that page, so you don't get much feedback and you're basically talking to a mirror.
It's interesting how we can debate all things Vikings and have major disagreements or spats on anything from JJM to renewing Kwesi's contract or how he sucked at the 2023 draft...and it's like, "cool, let's have a beer now".

But as soon as we get to politics and religion, the rules are very, very different.

Heh...you have no idea...though, the post above regarding talking to a mirror in there is very true...an "echo" would also a good descriptor!

[JimmyinSD]

While I agree that there is a place for sensitive topics here...very few people ever go to that page, so you don't get much feedback and you're basically talking to a mirror.
It's interesting how we can debate all things Vikings and have major disagreements or spats on anything from JJM to renewing Kwesi's contract or how he sucked at the 2023 draft...and it's like, "cool, let's have a beer now".

But as soon as we get to politics and religion, the rules are very, very different.

which is exactly why we dont allow them on this board,  but we do allow the personal stuff,  gives others a chance to gain perspective on our brothers and sisters for those that are willing to share. ( and also why I have a pretty much zero tolerance policy for BS in those types of threads )   but we move on now.

[bigbone62]

While I agree that there is a place for sensitive topics here...very few people ever go to that page, so you don't get much feedback and you're basically talking to a mirror.
It's interesting how we can debate all things Vikings and have major disagreements or spats on anything from JJM to renewing Kwesi's contract or how he sucked at the 2023 draft...and it's like, "cool, let's have a beer now".

But as soon as we get to politics and religion, the rules are very, very different.

"very few people ever go to that page, so you don't get much feedback and you're basically talking to a mirror".

So maybe that's an indictment on how this boards users generally feel about politics/religion, on this board? Safe to say if people in here care enough to discuss a topic, surely they can stand being bothered to click a link to that board? If not they can't be all that interested in discussing it.

[comet52]

Speaking of fireworks: if you don't like them because they scare your dog, you hate America!  

I had the unusual experience of seeing/hearing no fireworks at all this past 4th because I spent it visiting my brother in NorCal where the fire danger pretty much nixed the whole thing.

My dog, whose name is ROVERHATESAMERICA, approved!

[AGRforever]

While I agree that there is a place for sensitive topics here...very few people ever go to that page, so you don't get much feedback and you're basically talking to a mirror.
It's interesting how we can debate all things Vikings and have major disagreements or spats on anything from JJM to renewing Kwesi's contract or how he sucked at the 2023 draft...and it's like, "cool, let's have a beer now".

But as soon as we get to politics and religion, the rules are very, very different.

I’m just here for the beer. When and where?

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Heh...you have no idea...though, the post above regarding talking to a mirror in there is very true...an "echo" would also a good descriptor!

But does a post echo if there’s nobody there to read it?

[Zanary]

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But does a post echo if there’s nobody there to read it?

When there's multiple people, but strangely only one real viewpoint...then, a thread can echo for dozens of pages at a time...!

[Waterboy]

which is exactly why we dont allow them on this board,  but we do allow the personal stuff,  gives others a chance to gain perspective on our brothers and sisters for those that are willing to share. ( and also why I have a pretty much zero tolerance policy for BS in those types of threads )   but we move on now.

That’s why they pay you the big bucks. Lol.  I think life would be a lot easier for you if the personal shit was at least placed in an off-topic forum. I remember jokingly posting about toenail fungus after seeing numerous insane topics at one point and people actually replied.

[hogjowlsjohnny]

Politics and personal lives shouldn’t be a part of the football forum.  If people would talk just to football and not to personal or political topics, there wouldn’t be a problem.  But some want to have their cake and eat it too. I think the sensitive topics area is a much better fit for personal topics and even shows people like.

You, of all people, certainly don't resemble that remark.

[Waterboy]

You, of all people, certainly don't resemble that remark.

I'm not even sure what you're talking about.  I'm upfront with where I come from and don't hide my agenda in my posts like others on here.  I don't beg for sympathy with hypocritical viewpoints and am willing to fight them out.  It's the reason I think there should be separate forums.  Most other sites I'm on don't allow people to virtue signal how great of parents they are or talk about their favorite laundry detergent in the main sports forum.  Since it is a very small amount of posters here, it doesn't really matter one way or the other, but I still have an opinion.  lol