A reminder for ALL members posting

BoxcabE50 Jan 8, 2021

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  1. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    We are seeing people bringing politics into conversations here on TrainBoard, both overtly and some which are sliding theirs in less obviously, yet deliberately. A reminder that no matter where you are on this site, politics, excepting within a railroad historical context, are strictly prohibited.

    Reference:

    https://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/rules-for-posting.104938/

    Let us please keep TrainBoard a peaceful refuge from the pressures of life outside of our hobby.

    Thank you.

    BoxcabE50
    Administrator
     
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  2. RailMix

    RailMix TrainBoard Member

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    "Peaceful refuge" is a very apt description. Unlike social media, Trainboard is actually social. There is sharing of accomplishments and ideas. People are helpful. That's a greatly appreciated rarity in this day and age and should be respected and guarded by all of us.
     
  3. COverton

    COverton TrainBoard Supporter

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    What people tend to forget, sometimes 'forgetting' conveniently, is that nobody makes up rules because they have nothing else to do. The rules are posted because they represent an evolution in experience. They are meant to forestall undesirable behaviours.
     
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  4. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Thank you. You understand perfectly. :)
     
  5. dalebaker

    dalebaker TrainBoard Member

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    Thank you for the reminder Box, I just went through this very situation on a local hobby email thread. This is my “happy place”!
     
  6. acptulsa

    acptulsa TrainBoard Member

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    Makes me feel old that I remember a time when politics could be and was (not every time) discussed rationally.

    We need to discuss politics rationally. Desperately.
     
  7. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    I am sure you'd get no disagreement. But, just not here on TrainBoard.
     
  8. Joe Lovett

    Joe Lovett TrainBoard Member

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    The only person I talk politics to is Cynthia to keep from stepping on somebody's toes. We are on the same page.

    Joe
     
  9. Massey

    Massey TrainBoard Member

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    There is a reason for the saying "You do not talk politics or religion in polite company"
     
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  10. VinceP

    VinceP TrainBoard Member

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    Missed whatever happened

    Glad I did

    Understand TB and where it's coming from in the points of the site

    Thanks for letting this grumpy olde man stay here
     
  11. Bobby pitts

    Bobby pitts March 30, 2022 In Memoriam

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    That's why I left FB!
     
  12. Shortround

    Shortround TrainBoard Member

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    Maybe so but FB didn't leave you.
     
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  13. friscobob

    friscobob Staff Member

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    I have it based on questionably reliable sources that the word comes from two separate Greek words- "poly, meaning many; and "ticks", meaning blood-sucking parasites.

    So I've been told..........;) :D
     
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  14. VinceP

    VinceP TrainBoard Member

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    So wrong but funny
     
  15. acptulsa

    acptulsa TrainBoard Member

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    It's only half wrong. But it's 100% true nonetheless. And it gets less funny every week.
     
  16. sidney

    sidney TrainBoard Member

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    SOOOO the post about the WORKERS VOTE NO is that not pure politics ?????????? and dont say no its not because it really is all about politics !
    Just sayin
     
  17. acptulsa

    acptulsa TrainBoard Member

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    The workers don't think so. They think it's about survival.

    Just sayin'.
     
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  18. Doug Gosha

    Doug Gosha TrainBoard Member

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    It's railroad-related.

    Doug
     
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  19. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Yes. We are talking about historical railroad employer-employee (private sector) labor relations. General societal (public sector/governmental) politics is a completely different discussion.
     
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  20. acptulsa

    acptulsa TrainBoard Member

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    Meh. If you can't talk about anything the federal government has got its grubby fingers in these days, you can't talk about anything at all.

    There was a time when that wasn't true, a civilized age. But we might as well face facts. We can't even talk about that past itself; this government's out to rewrite history.
     
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