Discuss the state of the forums and find solutions

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trunkswd said:

Eric2048 said:

From what I can remember the reason for many people leaving the forums was because of the political discourse that plagued many threads around mostly from around 2019-2020. There was a lot of toxicity around the forums and the mods had to step in and hand out bans for some people. There was a big conflict between forum user and mods and many people ended up leaving. I think it has less to do with console wars and more to do with how bad the political climate was at the time.

I don't recall there being political issues, but than again I stay away from the politics section of the site. And stick with the sales and gaming topics. 

Politics was very, very bad here.  I actually had to remove the Politics forum from my feed.  Just lots of nasty, toxic behavior.  That's all well and good when discussing which game or console is better, but when it is something as pervasive and world altering as political movements it can be very emotionally distressing. I do agree that the Politics of the site got kind of wonky during those times...but I do not believe that that led to the mass exodus of folks from the site.  Those exits happened well before and if we're being honest, the politics that were being discussed on the site probably resulted in more traffic flow, not less.