Why do some things get posted here and the OP is told - hey this is a P&N thing

[episodic]

It is kind of perplexing to me after time why this occurs. On off-topic we discuss news constantly - but sometimes someone posts news and they are told go to Politics and News. . .

Two examples:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...6056&enterthread=y

Ok this guy gets sent to P&N right away

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=y&keyword1=confed

Ok this is news that is discussed extensively . . .

Just trying to get a better feel for reasons why. . .

 

[maziwanka]

i dunno. this is ATOT and it obeys the laws of chaos.

 

[MSCoder610]

The first one is noticeably more political? :thumbsup:

Edit: Actually I guess you could say the second one is somewhat political too. The first one deals with current political/ diplomatic events, which are discussed in P&N extensively, and the 2nd one is more of a free speech discussion which can stay more civil in OT. I guess.

 

[MisterJackson]

Dude, this is P&N. Get that crap outta here!

 

[cronos]

this is ATOT, there are multiple standards.

 

[HermDogg]

The first one is purely red/blue political. The second is more general and less prone to "BUSH FVCKING SUCKS OMG" and "KERRY IS TEH GAY!"

 

[bsobel]

Its the law of first response. If the first responder says this should be in P&N everyone else agrees, if that poster comments on the article, other comment away.

 

[Gurck]

For the most part I think some are done by favored posters or done for discussion's sake, while others are done by newbies or known trolls, or were clearly done in a blatant attempt to get people yelling & screaming.

 

[jjones]

In OT we try to avoid the flame wars, that being what P&N is for. Anything that looks like it will quickly devolve into a flamewar, or is politically motivated, generally gets a suggestion to take it to P&N. Some news items are worthy of discussion that aren't outright political and some of us in OT do like a discussion but we don't want to inadvertantly bring the P&N trolls into OT. The first example is worthy of P&N because it is about the current US administration that will most certainly bring out the P&N trolls and all of their partisan crap; OT will soon be beset with a 1000 Texmasters.

 

[Nitemare]

Dude, wrong forum

 

[K1052]

Because some people would like to have a sane, reasonable discussion regarding the issue in question rather than participate in a thread that will almost certainly devolve into a crazed partisan flamefest within 10 posts.