Por que?

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Perhaps he's just renaming it to the 'jesus christ are these really our elected officials?' section.

Kicking around the idea of eliminating it (again) and possibly some other non-hockey related content.
I wanted to see how many people complained.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

Since this is supposed to be SABRESjunkie , and a good chunk of people have just stopped coming here, we wanted to try bringing this back to a Sabres/NHL/Hockey only forum.

There's plenty of political forums out there to get your fill i would imagine. We'll slowly be adding and removing things as time allows.

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Kinda would have been nice to have some forewarning about it.

Fuck it. Do whatever you want.

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I wouldn't want to manage the politics forum during Romney vs. Obama either...lol.

1 vote for keeping the politics room.

This is exactly what happened the last time I closed it

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Hold my beer and watch this...

STEPHEN COLBERT FOR PRESIDENT.

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"Counting all the assholes in the room, I'm definitely not alone!" ~ Michael Poulsen, Volbeat, Still Standing.

I just don't see the debates in there as being as heated as they used to be, and I find them a good source of alternate opinions.

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Yeah, but I dont want to argue with those assholes...I want to argue with YOU assholes!

Exactly. This group of assholes is MY group of assholes.

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I severely doubt it's political threads driving people away. Maybe a fucking awful team and Sabres threads that discuss trades, firings, and blame ad nauseum, and where all sense of fun has been sucked out has more to do with it?

IMO, the sense of fun has been sucked out of here by the constant bitching. I feel like I KNOW how "you" feel about Darcy/Lindy. I'm just tired of threads devolving into a hatefest. It seems like NOTHING can be talked about without the inevitable D/L bitching. No one will even give Pegula the benefit of the doubt anymore! Seriously, the Sabres organization (right down to the players) are not maliciously stupid people out to make "you" miserable.

Pollyanna Sunshine wants "you" to all lighten up!

Nertz! You guys got rid of most of the Smilies! No fair!!!

Nuthatch, I agree with you 100%. Well said!

I also agree with NYI that the politics forum has been very civil for a long time now.

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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And as far as "other politics forums" goes, I never have participated in such sites, but what I fear is ending up on a forum that panders to my beliefs and doesn't challenge me. Here, I know pretty much no one thinks that much like me and I like the opportunity to hear other opinions I might not, as well as engage in debates with people that disagree with each other on a range of issues. I feel like the political discussions here are more real in that there actually is a potential that we can influence each other's opinions.

It's no secret to anyone that knows my posts that most of the time I'm NOT posting about the Sabres. That's because I feel like the level of conversation is much lower in many (but not all) of the Sabres debates than it is in the threads on other topics. I think it would be a shame to take away some of the more unique aspects of this site in order to make it more like the official site which I fled from in terror 3 years ago or whatever.

Besides, im halfway through liberty defined, and I need a place to argue with NYI and PSP when im done.

ok, ok, the people have spoken.

It seems everyone also inferred the general reasons around what we were trying to do.
We've lost a lot of valuable posters in the last few months and the boards seems to be a dwindling community. If anyone would like to offer suggestions for what could make this a better place, or do some outreach to their friends, that would be great.

XC

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The Sabres start winning again and I gaurentee people will start coming back.

I rather enjoyed the politics section. I never took offense to anything and hearing others peoples opinions is nice. And it has been incredibly civil as of late.

I was hoping this would be brought up man. I don't want to see this place die out. I'll make a thread....

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