I think there needs to be a serius re-evaulation of the 'Rules of the Discussion Forums'.

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What exactly is a 'nonsense' topic?

What exactly is conceived to be civilised and uncivilised?

Why is a thread for example about George Bush in the General Discussion forum reallocated to the Politicics and Religion forum?

I know that my thread is flawed in the sense that I am being hypocritical to some extent. That I admit. But to me the Org is becoming tiresome these days with the same old folks talking about the same old rubbish.

I agree that threads get moved from forums way too easily, even though they have nothing to do with the forum they're moved to... for example a thread about George Bush's underwear would be moved to p&r just cos it's about GWB, even though it would have NOTHING to do with politics. I think the mods need to look at what the topic's actually about before moving it.

And yes, it's very right now, same old same old. I have nothing to contribute either, or at least not time to