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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The CP off-topic forums are very loosely moderate compared to other forums, and compared to CP ten years ago. Mods here used to routinely suspend posters for personal attacks (some users were suspended more often than they were active). But for whatever reason, they stopped. Predictably, the antagonism has gotten worse, especially in the political threads. As a consequence, many moderate posters have stopped posting and the off-topic forums are well down the road to becoming echo chambers.
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(sorry for the devastating personal attack)
Pepsifree has certainly been unduly antagonistic by sprinkling a dash of snark in each of his well researched and reasoned posts. It's too bad that perennially online people who feel the need to point out that perennially online people are not a representative sample of humanity or in-person interactions also seem to be really thin skinned and revert to pointing out that perennially online people are not a representative sample of humanity whenever a topic challenges their preconceived notions. Because complaining about how other people engage in a topic is way more fun that engaging in a topic. Or something.
Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen anyone proffer an actual counter argument here beyond: 'Citizenship is the line, because of course citizenship is the line and it's absurd to consider anything else.'
What is the actual threat here? 46.38% of citizens turned out to vote last time. Are PR's really so different than the rest of us? PR's who aren't fully committed to life here are going to go out of their way to vote because...queues are fun? That threat certainly seems a valid reason to deny any say to engaged and committed PR's who haven't quite finished jumping through all of the bureaucratic hoops [even though apparently it is the fastest and easiest process ever which is something really neat I learned in this thread]?