@icopress, may I ask you to open a self-moderated thread? Some other lusers have mentioned it and I think that, at this point, it may be the only way to save this thread.
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It's hilarious: the name of the thread literally starts with
[POV]. For any Russians and tankies: this means
[point of view]. It's icopress' point of view. His personal view, in text and pictures of how he and his close ones experience this war. The title also says that he answers questions; so if someone has questions to an eye-witness, they can ask them.
He did educate that cigerettes were good sellers in a war zone. I mean, who knew?
If they want to come up with conspiracy theories or otherwise discuss international politics, there are enough other threads for that. They can even open a new one where they express all their opinions 'without censorship' (or anyone complaining). We're not complaining because they are a fan of Vladimir Putin, but because it's inappropriate and off-topic in this thread.
@tvbcof and @BADecker, please just make a discussion thread about the issues you have, but not clog up this
[POV] thread.
Since you like to bring up the forum's history of free speech; you surely also know that there are
unoffical official rules, such as:
Forum rules
1. No zero or low value, pointless or uninteresting posts or threads.
2. No off-topic posts.
You forgot to include ~paxmao who's comment had little or nothing to do with Ukraine and got this branch going. I guess maybe a generalize tip about when running a grift, make sure that you have monopoly control of the narrative.
As for the relevance of posts, not everyone has a flexible enough mind to recognize relationships to context. Or the same interests. Maybe not even you, chief.