I do not want it to turn into a flame war, so consider it as me asking a favor.
Please keep major offtopic talkes out of channel 1.
Seeing Afganistan problem flame on channel 1 during 15 minutes is not fun. I do not want to squelch the whole channel, because there are some other game related information I can not see doing it, greetings and salutations from people etc. Typing 'squelch' 10 times is not fun too.
If you want to discuss it -- post at the OC, its a good place for such discussions, and more people could read it,
Thanks,
Edit:
And to try to keep it constructive, how about adding one channel (10 lets say) as an official "offtopic" AH chat channel?
[ 11-20-2001: Message edited by: Fariz ]