Hide it from the front page is my opinion. Some of the discussions are really bad and generally devolve into "Trump sucks" vs "SJW's suck" or some similar scenario. But there are great opportunities there to talk about elections, let people know about the state of politics in countries they are not so familiar with and other important stuff. If you are going to remove it, at least give people the option to talk about some important political occurrences (like general elections in major countries) in off-topic discussion.
Edit: I now read through the whole thread. Even though I see how removing the board from the front page could result in less people signing up to participate, I think the case of someone casually finding this site and feeling repelled by some of the politics threads is equally likely. Personally, my life on this site has become a lot more pleasant since I decided to hide politics discussion from the main page. I visit the site more often as a result and participate more.
Last edited by Louie - on 10 March 2019
