CGI-Quality said:
I consider it a personal failure, to a degree. It’s an open wound we’ve allowed to bleed and, as a result, it’s taken a toll on everyone. Of course, people don’t need to be jerks in those topics, but with no input from us, we’ve done it a disservice. That must change one way or another. |
I know I've not been around recently, so feel less entitled to give my opinion, but I voted for the Politics forum to stay. It has its problems, but if you got rid of it, political threads would just seep into General Discussion and other off-topic forums.
You'd then be faced with a decision whether or not to ban threads that started political, or lock threads that turned political, and then there'd be the the grey areas of where to draw the line as to when it's too political etc. etc. Removing the forum would just set you up for a different form of headache, I think. Not only that, it might look a bit weird to the uninitiated outsider for the site to include an array of different types of off-topic forums, but ban any form of political discussion.
I think you're beating yourselves up trying to find the perfect solution, and absolutely no way should it be considered a personal failure.
I think you just have to step back and acknowledge that it's impossible to satisfy everyone all of the time. The addition of customisable filters for the front page is as good as I think you'll ever get to solving the problem. If extra policing is what the Politics forum needs, perhaps anyone who wants to see it thrive and become an asset to the site could step up and be a dedicated mod.
Just a random thought.
Last edited by Hedra42 - on 12 March 2019
