This isn't a blog, it's a forum. As such, its conducive to have all members working towards the goal of a cohesive conversation. We have moderators, who's explicit purpose is to control conversation. Once again, that's why there are TOPICS. Until this thread got derailed into this specific off topic conversation, it was within the realm of the election. The election is a national political event, and since it is now over this topic became the defacto place to discuss national political issues.
Justin was simply expressing his wish that such conversations remain here, where it is at least topical, versus say the Seaport Developments thread. It's a reasonable request, and one that appears to be shared by most members.
Not everyone wants to spend every waking moment talking about, reading about, and discussing politics. Its frustrating, and on an architecture forum, its downright rude. I love volkswagens, but I go to vwvortex.com to talk about them.
And I will agree with Statler - even the members I disagree with vehemently have posted some interesting points. Even Mark, whatever rock he crawled back under, at least gave the perspective from the other side of most arguments, which was conducive to the conversation. Blocking is the equivalent to "lalalala I can't hear you", I won't do it either. But posting off topic rants is detrimental to a cohesive conversation.
To that point, I'm going to stop this argument as it is derailing this thread, and I'm sure everyone has things they want to talk about relevant to politics, or whatever has been going on in here.
