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Chris McNamara

SuperTopo staff member
Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 4, 2014 - 10:29am PT
We recently deleted the Fergusson thread for a few reasons:

1) The thread had very little to do with mission of the SuperTopo forum which is intended to be a "friendly and informative resource for climbers of all skill levels and experience to get information about climbing and climbing destinations.”

2) The thread was devolving into personal attacks. While we constantly wrestle with our comfort of having a climbing forum be occasionally overrun with heated political debate, we are very clear that we never want the forum to become a platform for personal attacks. Please help us to keep personal attacks off the forum by emailing me.

Your help in keeping your contributions to the climber's forum consistent with our posting policy is appreciated.

Regards,

Chris McNamara
apogee

climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
Dec 4, 2014 - 10:32am PT
Good call. While you're at it, you could nuke just about any of the other polititard threads and it would be just fine with me, as they almost always devolve into 'personal attacks', sometimes outside the boundaries of ST threads.

Better yet...consider nuking the most prolific OP's of such OT threads. Nip that sh#t in the bud, once & for all.

Keep up the good work.
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
Dec 4, 2014 - 10:33am PT
Good Call. I got sucked in too.
Shame on me.
Time for penance.

Susan
RyanD

climber
Squamish
Dec 4, 2014 - 10:38am PT
1) The thread had very little to do with mission of the SuperTopo forum which is intended to be a "friendly and informative resource for climbers of all skill levels and experience to get information about climbing and climbing destinations.”


If this is truly the mission it's going to take more than nuking one of 1,000s dumb threads, for starters maybe don't delete climbing content when ppl get deactivated.

Delete offensive posts that cause banning, deactivate account and move on.

No need to remove great content.

An OT tab would be appreciated by many and I'm sure more ppl would contribute to the climbing side if it wasn't constantly get filtered by OT threads which probably comprise close to 50% of content on this forum.

My $0.02





Norton

Social climber
quitcherbellyachin
Dec 4, 2014 - 10:40am PT
Please help us to keep personal attacks off the forum by emailing me.


10b4me

climber
Dec 4, 2014 - 10:41am PT
Good call. While you're at it, you could nuke just about any of the other polititard threads

+1

it sure would be nice if Supertopo got back to its' original concept.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Dec 4, 2014 - 10:46am PT
Justin attacked Jingy on the Soccer thread and impugned his appraisal of Alexis Sanchez. Jess sayin'...
this just in

climber
north fork
Dec 4, 2014 - 10:49am PT
HA Reilly! Sorry, you god damn Goon!
apogee

climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
Dec 4, 2014 - 11:00am PT
You give me far too much credit, Russ. But thanks for paying attention enough to keep track of percentages!
RyanD

climber
Squamish
Dec 4, 2014 - 11:03am PT
Haha this thread is gonna have to be nuked
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Dec 4, 2014 - 11:11am PT
Burn this bitch down!!!
bhilden

Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
Dec 4, 2014 - 11:28am PT
Please take all the personal attacks to Facebook. You might as well be truthful about your real personalities.
The Call Of K2 Lou

Mountain climber
North Shore, BC
Dec 4, 2014 - 11:29am PT
Let's nuke Vitaliy and Donini, too. They're makin' the rest of us look bad.
Same goes for Big Mike. Way too much positive vibes and good cheer for the internet.

(Oh crap! Personal attacks. I just nuked myself!) ->I<-
couchmaster

climber
Dec 4, 2014 - 11:35am PT


Thanks Chris!
rick sumner

Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
Dec 4, 2014 - 11:55am PT
Glad I could do my small part , with help from the Insults of BobDa, in helping to get the Ferguson thread nuked.

This rascism in america crap is totally overblown and used as a smokescreen to obscure far more damaging machinations by the Feds.

guido

Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
Dec 4, 2014 - 12:02pm PT
Dangerous precipice there Chris and while I agree with the premise I see no end to your future monitoring. Who will monitor the monitors? While you are at it, why not knock off "Watch the Liar?" And................................ .........................................................................
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
Dec 4, 2014 - 12:04pm PT
Thx Chris!
Ihateplastic

Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
Dec 4, 2014 - 12:36pm PT
And yet this

Why Are Republicans WRONG about EVERYTHING?

reamins on the front page...
apogee

climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
Dec 4, 2014 - 12:38pm PT
How does one do a search for the OP's of all ST threads?

Who is the king/queen OP of all OT/polititard thread starters?

Nip that sh#t in the bud.
stevep

Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
Dec 4, 2014 - 12:46pm PT
I didn't visit the thread in question, but generally agree with the idea of getting rid of anything that involves personal attacks. Pretty sure that the number of teenagers on this forum is limited, so we ought to be able to avoid that.

However, there is some pretty decent OT discussion that goes on here, same as it might around a climbers campfire or at a dinner party. It would be a shame to lose that.
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