Should The Political Discussion Board Remain?

[Ganoncrotch]

the-pi-guy said:

potato_hamster said:
The participation in this site seems to be on the steady decline, and you want to give people one less reason to come here to discuss things?

That doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

 

Flilix said:
Yes, since there's absolutely no reason to remove it, especially considering the low amount of activity the site already has.

I can assure you that some people have stopped coming here because of the political threads.  

someone read something on the internet and stopped visiting the site, they were likely to leave anyway, unless you have direct numbers of people that actually left and contrasting numbers of users who come to VGChartz and specifically post and view threads in the politics region it can't be put out there that a certain sub bracket area of these forums is the reason someone with thin skin left the website. It's perfectly possible for a user to be on a site without going into threads that upset them.

As others have pointed out though, the site activity is slowing to the point where I wouldn't advise doing anything that pushed certain users of this place away now, the people who do come here should more be viewed and asked what other features they would want to post more on the daily here, if it's not gaming so be it, I think the latest thread that I've taken part in the most has been the picture thread which has almost no dialogue just picture responses back and forth with other users, from the point of view that it is a respond to OP type thread it breaks a rule in that it doesn't appear to have mod approval and from a spam point of view almost all of the posts in it break rules since they are images without text, still it's a great thread and a reason to open up VGchartz to check out what people have replied in there for me.

This site needs visitors, if those visitors want to post pictures of their cats at this stage I would recommend opening up a area of the forums exclusively for pet related posts.