• We have updated the guidelines regarding posting political content: please see the stickied thread on Website Issues.
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We've been obliged to remove a few posts recently and would like to clarify some simple points:

1. Claiming that a post is not political or disavowing the intention of making political points goes no way to indemnifying you when the material being posted (an image, article or video) is inherently political.

2) There is very limited scope for pulling non-political points from politicised material because there is a high chance that another member will either complain about the aspect you wish to de-emphasise or pick up one of those aspects and run with it in future posts.

3) The above applies equally to politically grounded jokes and humour--unfortunately.

If in doubt, send us a PM--you'll receive a quick reply.

But, to be honest, just use your head; and if in doubt, don't hit 'post'.

This is not an attack on the person who posted it, and few of you likely saw it the material as we removed it fairly soon after its appearance, but this has to be a learning moment.

On a thread in the GHOSTS sub-forum discussing belief and evidence, with the caveat at it was 'not political' was a link to the following:

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The article that follows had some reasonable enough (if broad-brush for a lecturer in psychology) points about personality types and the propensities towards various mindsets and behaviours, but there is no way that the material can be used here as part of the argument--the whole thing is couched in examples and squabbles from contemporary political debate.

We have not issued any warnings in this case, but we do feel as if our signal is not being received if regular posters think that this could conceivably fall within the guidelines that are so regularly cited.
 
The moderators are acutely aware that that this is an exceptionally difficult time for many of you, which is why we've been politely removing the daily handful of snide and snarky political sneers and memes with only mild reminders of the rule against them. In the past 36hrs alone we've had Boris, Trump, Hancock, Cummings and Thatcher.

The problem is that while one member's snappy one-liner may vent a trace of pressure, it is even more likely than usual to raise another member's ire.

Those who have tried to bend the rules or 'sneak one through' know who they are--and they're mostly longstanding members.

Stop it.

We don't appreciate having to spend time following-up notifications at a time when we are as busy and as strung-out as you are.

For the newer members who did not see our earlier announcement, we will repeat that you are welcome here, but jokes/memes/images lampooning political figures are not.

Happy Christmas.

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The Bristol Kill the bill riot has been closed and will shortly be removed from Mainstream News. Given that the entire basis for the thread is a protest about a political matter, and beyond the Police's misleading statements about injury (which may be as simple as an overzealous press officer, I don't know) there is nothing Fortean about it. I'm posting about it here as well to a) explain its disappearance and b) to remind everyone that Politics is banned, because there are still those that really, really don't seem to get it.

So here goes.

Don't post about politics. That includes protests about mainstream politics, gender politics, BLM/ALM, or any other sort of politics. If you post something about politics, we will remove it without further discussion and have a word with you that you probably won't like while we're about it.

Ask yourself: is this about politics? If it is,
THEN DON'T BLOODY POST IT.
 
Whilst we all probably agree that politics is an important subject this is not the place for it.

The Charles Fort Institute (who make the continuing functioning of this board possible) exists to further the study, discussion and sharing of all things Fortean. This is facilitated by civil discourse and when politics rears its head that civil discourse is generaly the first casualty. There are many locations both online and in real life where you can discuss politics to your hearts content. This is not one of them.

Thank you for your understanding and now let's get back to Forteana.
 
To restate what has been said periodically for a long time now, the Humour & Jokes Thread is no exception to our no politics policy.

Even if we take no action beyond deletion, you name goes on the list and you'll have a bigger and more solid book thrown at you when our patience is exhausted.
 
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