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HylianSwordsman on 11 March 2019
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padib said:
HylianSwordsman said:

Do you mean you just filter it out with the filter settings? Because a lot of people interact with the forums from the front page, myself included, because the most active threads are there, and it gets bombarded with politics and there's no way to filter that to my knowledge. Like you said, politics should be removed by default, to be added in as an option, and removed from the front page as well under the same conditions. I think it would to a lot to stop scaring people off if some of the toxic stuff that ends up there didn't clog up the default views of the forum on Hot Topics and the front page.

I think that people like to discuss these things with people in their community, rather than strangers who might take the thing too seriously.

People often say that vgchartz is like a family to them, and God only know that where there is family, there is discord. But that's the nature of feeling close about things, is that we feel more free to actually express our real points of view without feeling like we are lost and that we are talking to complete strangers.

You probably disagree with this but vgchartz is often seen like a cyber home for a lot of people. There may be other cyber homes out there but many consider this one theirs and that's pretty unique about this place, I don't come back to any other forum than this one to be honest.

I don't disagree at all! Why do you think I stuck around? Why do you think I came back after such an absence? You probably don't remember me from before my hiatus from this place, but I really loved this place, and I remember you. Conegamer, Smeags, and the like really made me feel at home, even though few people knew my name or recognized me. Few still do. Believe me, I understand the desire to discuss things with people you know, I completely understand that argument, but I've also lost too many friends on here, and people I valued the presence and contributions of, and people I respected and wanted to know better, and it's precisely because this place feels like a community to me that I hate what politics has done to it. I don't talk about politics with my own immediate family anymore because I can't bear to see it divide us any further. I know to you I'm just a nobody and I get that my opinion on these forums isn't known or respected or anything, but damn it I love this place too! It's the first and only cyber home I've ever had. I came back because I never found anywhere else that was quite right. But I also want to see this community grow, and it isn't growing, it's shrinking. And that started long before these changes to the weekly charts. Longtime people are leaving. New people come and quickly leave, drawn to certain aspects of this community but driven away by the politics. I've seen it too many times now. I'm tired of begging people to stay only to watch them leave. I'm tired of them being disgusted by our community once they see the politics board and feeling like this isn't a place they can feel welcome.