firiebob said...Don't apologize mate it's just a forum
^^^ What he said.
It's not that we don't have opinions on the matter, or think it's not worth discussing, but there's plenty of other places you can talk about politics. As explained in the forum rules, moderation is a grey area and every decision is different. Moderators don't even always agree on how to moderate the same thread.
The main thing is that we try and keep this place within a certain theme. A certain spirit, if you will. I often think of it along the lines of the old saying: there's the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. The spirit/theme we're trying to keep things to here is either windsport/watersport/beach theme, or in the case of 'general' discussion, keeping it lighthearted and fun. Having read plenty of political discussions over the years, it very rarely ends well when you start by commenting about government policy, whether or not you agree with it.
We don't want to muzzle free speech or deny anyone's rights, we just want to keep Seabreeze within its own theme.
