What's your line in the sand?

[Creekland]

Politics is purposely kept out of the main threads on College Confidential because we all know “whackadoodles” is a word both sides use to describe the other side, and all the annoyances that can ooze out of making things political.

There is a politics forum if you want to join to respectfully talk about things political. It’s still not allowed to diss each other (meaning one can get kicked out if their sole goal is to diss other posters), but we do have folks on both sides contributing to discussions if you’re (or anyone reading is) interested:

Politics Discussion Group

Mike floated the idea of creating a specific category for discussing politics on the site. He also created a group for those who might be interested. As of this writing, there are 75 people who have signed up (including me and Mike). That seems like a pretty good level of interest, so we are going to try this out. It’s important to understand that political discussion is not at the core of College Confidential’s mission. As I said elsewhere: Some of the most important conversations we can have involve how we individually respond to the various sources of stress happening in our lives. But those same conversations also run the risk of breaking friendships if other people don’t treat us with respect and care. So we’re going to create a space for those conversations to happen within the CC community. Now we know that this has already been attempted. We’re not going to repeat the mistakes of the past. No, we’re going to make new mistakes! It’s important to understand that this will b…