Von_Lohengram
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Or perhaps the mods could start handing out bans those who shitpost, launch personal attacks, etc instead of handing out collective punishment every time there's unpleasantness in the USA going on?I think it would be wise if we left politics closed for the next month. People around here have other forms of communication. The sub-forum thread has been shut down how many times in the past few months? Give it a break, let people talk about it elsewhere.
That said, I would recommend having two different forums. One labelled "Rumors & Kneejerks" where people can speculate and guess and another more formal sub-forum where we can deal with facts and actual political positions. Because I see a lot of people kneejerking to news and spreading gossip instead of actually debating real politics.
We are going to see more crazyness there over the next years I'm pretty certain. If I have to worry that the Politics forum will shut down every time instead of the mods coming down on the actual offenders, with the implicit threat of it becoming a permanent shutdown, then there's no point to a counterpart to SB in the first place.
Some people have called for better behaviour from the members to prevent shutdowns, but what exactly are those of us who don't break the rules supposed to do exactly to stop the few bad apples?