Only in the political section..... Sighhhhh. Yes, eto, when you see
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I honestly try to edit people's posts without deleting the entire post or banning them. I receive complaints about language and other HNI rules violations from other members, mods and admin (they assign complaints to us) that I try to resolve in a professional manner with the least amount of muss and fuss. I replace the offending language, words, etc. with a
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Using symbols like Ifferd did in the above post is fine when it's just symbols by themselves. I still have to delete the language when you insert only 1 or 2 symbols for letters in a prohibited word and the meaning is still readily apparent (like $hit as an example). I try to keep the political forum as unrestricted as possible and give people more leeway than they might get in another forum since we so often do discuss sensitive or provocative subjects such as politics, race, sexual orientation, profiling, etc. I fully expect people need to vent in this section and hope to preserve their opportunity to do so while maintaining the HNI rules and keeping the forum clean. FWIW, I hope to keep all of our longterm political junkie members and add a few thousand more to this forum so we can have even bigger discussions and an exchanging of opposing viewpoints.
Now, having said that, let the argufying begin.
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