No More Trolling. It stops now
I've had enough and my tolerance has worn thin. Lately, I have been preoccupied with some personal issues in my life as well as just trying to get this site running properly, but not so busy that I haven't noticed the growing amounts of trolling posts. People say "trolling" is a derisive term and so it is. However,I don't use it lightly. It's a term reserved for activity which has a sole agenda of purposely attempting to anger others and get people off their message.
There are two of you in particular that have been disruptive purposely writing posts to needle or outright antagonize people. Let me preface by saying that, this isn't specifically a "Rand Paul" site although we do promote him shamelessly. Furthermore, the main purpose of this site is to promote the ideas of freedom and liberty and that includes any other candidate that is particularly liberty orientated. This goes for senators, congressmen, and other local candidates. There is ZERO chance that I personally will be voting for Donald Trump. I don't think he's in any way, shape or form a liberty candidate. That being said, if Trump supporters came here to point out areas where Trump gets it right on liberty and their argument was sound, I'd promote that to the front page. I don't believe any one candidate is perfect, but I do expect them to be on the right side of liberty 90% of the time in order for this site to promote them.
The Donald Trump trolls, and yes that's what they behave like, are not writing about where their guy stands with liberty. They are not, for the most part, interested in discussing ideas. They are here to hit people with a Donald Trump sledge hammer of abrasive words and ridiculous promotion of "I'm qualified because I'm popular". This is done so in feeble effort to convince people that Trump is the better choice or to simply to disrupt the conversation with an argument or a snide comment.
I'm done with it. I really tried to be patient, give people benefit of the doubt, and let people settle down, but I think I gave too much leeway.
The two posters in particular "Donald Trump" and "harley9883" should consider themselves officially warned.to stop trolling. If you want to post about well thought out ideas with a centralized message of liberty and done so in a polite manner you are welcome here. But if you are here to post one liners and derisive comments with the intent to misdirect the conversation, you've come to the wrong place. Breitbart is ripe with that kind of conversation and I'm sure you'd be welcomed there. If you can not abide by the civil discourse rules of this site, then you will be banned. It is as simple as that. As it is, I will be deleting any comments that fall under the category of deliberate trolling from the recent past and from here on out.
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Thanks for your attention
Anne