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Scott Walker and his anti-train attitude

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[quote user="Steven Otte"] Since we have received complaints that this thread has veered off of rail topics and into contentious fields of politics (which it was very close to doing even from the start), this thread is being locked. <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] Regarding the veering off of rail topics and into the contentious field of politics:   <o:p></o:p> In the case of HSR, the contentious field of politics is the contentions field of spending the peoples’ money on something that many of them don’t want.  Therefore HSR = the contentions field of politics.  While the “No Politics” is verbally simple, it has never been defined in the context of these forums.  A vacuous debate over the character virtues and flaws of named politicians seems clearly to be “political.”  But what about a discussion of the pros and cons of public funding for passenger rail?  Is that banned by the “No Politics” rule?  The question has been asked many times, but no answer has ever been given.        <o:p></o:p> There is a tendency for moderators to lock a thread if they get complaints.  The greater the number of complaints, the more a moderator might believe the thread should be locked.  But a moderator has a real job to do besides just counting complaints.  A moderator must determine whether the complaints are justified by a rules violation, and many complaints are not.   <o:p></o:p> These forums are naturally full of HSR boosters who regard any objection to public spending on HSR as being a violation of the “No politics” forum rule.  For them, pushing the report abuse button is their way of winning the debate on HSR.  And as further evidence, these same boosters see no problem with crowing about a president who takes a pro-HSR stand or lambasting a governor who rejects HSR to save his state from bankruptcy.  So the moderators have their work cut out for them.  They must separate the real rules violations from the posters who use the abuse button as a debating tactic.
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