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

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.
 
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!"
 
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.

 
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.
 
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. 😀
 
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.
 
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