I recently entered a, what I thought might be a sensible discussion, about President Trump.  Sorry to say, it turned out to be an extremely liberal, stead fast, hard headed

anti - civil forum against the man.  I am in support of the man, and when I expressed support I received a bunch of down marks without any reasonable reference as to why.

The left, liberal always say the want a discussion about things.  Unless you agree with them, there can be no exchange of thoughts.

Part of Hillary Clinton's slogans was " LOVE TRUMPS HATE"!  I have seen nothing but hate.  I bunch of cry babies because they did not get their way.

I am in the middle, and lean towards fairness.

It is with much regret, That I request to be removed from this site.  I just can not stand the bias of opinions.  I can understand marking down someone for giving bad advice, but when stating an opposing opinion?

Where is the open mindedness?

If you want to quit the forum, either just stop going here, or contact an admin to block/terminateyour account. Best bet is probably by PM, or the https://www.gamedev.net/forums/forum/26-gdnet-comments-suggestions-and-ideas/ forum.

If your concern is about uncivility, your best course of action would be to report the uncivil posts, instead of creating a new thread just to do to name-calling yourself ("bunch of cry babies").

If your concern is "the bias of opinions" -- then you're probably out of luck. Opinions are always biased, as they are subjective.

6 minutes ago, Scouting Ninja said:

If you where in fact for fairness then you will respect that not everyone agrees with you and that they have the right not to agree with you and down vote you.

It is not so much the disagreement.  It is the cowardness in which they do it.  Down vote me fine.  But state as to why.  That is a discussion.  In fact, mt opinion is that this site to force a reply reason for a down vote on any topic in order to understand as to why!

3 minutes ago, Poigahn said:

In fact, mt opinion is that this site to force a reply reason for a down vote on any topic in order to understand as to why!

You can't force people to say why they did things. For example, if you need to write something in a textbox, people would just type "asdf" as the reason. If there were stricter requirements, they would just type in random stuff that worked.

Down-voting someone without giving a reason is not cowardice (same as up-voting without posting anything). The voting system is in addition to the discussion (the actual replies), it is not discussion by itself.

There is also the important fact that not all opinions are equal. Some opinions are better than others, some opinions are worse than others. Note that this does not mean I have to agree with every good opinion. The people you disagree with can have good opinions.

Due to this, fairness does not mean giving equal time to all opinions.

The lounge used to be exempt from the up/down vote system. Voting on posts is useful in a technical forum where posts can be objectively right / wrong. Voting is not as useful in off-topic discussions. However, voting is there at the moment, so don't have political discussions in a place with votes if you don't want to see the results of those votes...

You can start a post in the suggestions forum if you'd like to suggest that the lounge be exempt from up/down votes again.

1 hour ago, Poigahn said:

The left, liberal always say the want a discussion about things

Here, you're saying "A generalization that I've made about 50% of the world didn't actually to a handful of specific people on an internet forum. Also, because some people said that my posts are bad, I'm going to leave this site and never return". Frankly, this is quite a silly statement. But if that's truly how you feel, then leaving the site and never returning is how you quit it. If you're really not capable of trusting yourself to not use your own account, you can report it, and ask in the report to be banned, which will lock you out of it if the moderators agree to go through with the ban.

Locking the thread to prevent a dogpile.