Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Why has this post been closed? "Council to invest in extra local police officers"
Here: Council to invest in extra local police officers
I was awaiting further responses to the questions posed but then realised it has been closed.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Nope, he didn't close it. It got all Red Gang, Yellow Gang political so it was closed.
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Permalink Reply by Nick G-T on
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So the post was censored? I thought debate was to be encouraged on HoL, political or otherwise?
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Party politicking ends up pretty idiotic so in my experience gets frowned upon and "closed". Politics on the other hand is encouraged.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Right wing bias?
Let me get you your hat too, Phil.
I closed the post having just deleted an overtly party political Lib Dem post. I came across James Ryan's post at the same time, didn't have the time to read it, closed in in the interim in the interests of fairness and meant to come back to it.
Thanks for the bleats and assumptions about censorship and bias.
However, to give you fair warning, for about two months prior to 22nd May, there's going to be a strict and remoreselessly enforced policy about party political postings. Folks can bleat all they like about censorship and bias, but my skin has thickened to such jibes over the years. This site wasn't ever meant to be dominated by local politics or for the politically highly engaged minority to battle it out.
My belief is that while a modicum of that is of interest, most people who are using HoL don't want it taken over by politics. I know what happened in 2010. I have the analytics and I'm taking my learning from that.
I'm not quite sure what the policy should say, but would welcome some suggestions.
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Phil, believe me, it gets unpleasant and puts people off. (You see I get to witness the fallout of what happens on HoL. For example, you probably weren't aware that two people quit their membership over that gay house share post)
So, from my experience it's not worth just letting it all happen once every four years. It sets a tone and puts people off who never come back.
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Good on your for keeping it open despite that Hugh. A couple of years ago I had a young cousin back in NZ quietly defriend me on Facebook after I hauled him up for using the term "gay" pejoratively in a post.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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I was planning to smuggle in some political jokes. Like these repurposed Tommy Cooper classics:
- An election candidate rings a doorbell. A woman dressed entirely in black comes to the door. The candidate says: "Hello, is Charlie in?" The woman starts to cry. In between sobs she says. "My husband died last week" . The candidate replies. "I'm really very sorry. He didn’t say anything about a postal vote, did he?"
- Looking very embarrassed the Party Election Agent brings a monkey to go out door-knocking with a candidate. She says: "Look, I'm terribly sorry about this, but we're scraping the barrel for party supporters in this constituency". The candidate says: "That's OK". The party agent replies: "I wasn’t talking to you."
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I'll tip off the border police and make sure that your contraband gets waved through.
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Did I just hear the slamming of virtual doors as half-a-dozen outraged Tommy Cooper fans left the site?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Alan, you missed Tommy's most political joke. The one where he rang Haringey and asked if he could have a skip outside of his house and the woman on the phone said he could skip wherever he liked as far as she was concerned.
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More recycled Tommy Cooper:
- A spin doctor tells tells a politician that he's losing support because his policies are out of date and irrelevant. The politician says: 'I want a second opinion.' The spin doctor says, 'OK. You're ugly and boring as well.'
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