Not sure if this is the right thread to ask this but didn’t know where else to go. I’m fairly new around here and am enjoying engaging in discussions about football. Lots of different opinions as you would expect for such a diverse group of people. There would be little enjoyment or reason to have a forum like this if everyone agreed, it would get boring very quickly.
Now for my question - when not talking about football is there either an official or unofficial understanding that you’re not allowed to have a different political/ sociological view other than socialism/leftism? I ask this because from reading the dedicated political threads and other threads where sometimes politics or social issues crop up, it seems that people aren’t allowed to have or put forward an alternative view point. If it is the case, I will tread lightly. I’m not likely to be dishing out any political views or causing any trouble but I would just like to know.
First and foremost, we're a football site. The existence of threads and topics outside of football is something we moderators either encourage or tolerate. Sometimes it gets too fuckin tiresome to keep them clean, nice and amicable - so sometimes we do lock them down and, in cases where people are being deliberately provocative, we lock them down too or boot them out. Cos it's a footie site first and foremost - and we're all here for the footie, ahead of everything else - or we should be.......
There's no such policy on RAWK as stifling debate - quite the opposite - we actively encourage healthy and constructive debate. It's just at times it gets tedious and/or out of hand. So when someone puts forward an "alternative view point [sic]", what matters more than anything else is the manner in which it's done.
Obvious stuff like WUMming, trolling, racism, blatant misogyny/androgyny, other nastiness and being a general fuckwit gets stamped on as soon as it's seen.
Our general starting point should always be that we support Liverpool FC not only when we win but when we draw and lose too. Oh and that Everton are fuckin shite
Hope that helps.