Discuss the state of the forums and find solutions

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angrypoolman said:

the-pi-guy said:

A lot of forums have political boards, or even just general boards where political discussions happen. I just looked at a handful, and PC Gamer is the only one I saw that didn't have an obvious place for politics to go - and frankly that forum looks very dead.  

I'm not sure that VGC has gotten more political, I think that there's just a lot less game conversation to match it.  

Era is like 30x worse than we are when it comes to politics.

i do not remember vgc being anywhere near this political back in, say, 2009. but you very well may be correct that it could just be there was way more gaming focused discussion that drowned out those topics. even still, its hard for me to believe there was this much political discourse going on back then.

A couple reasons.

First of all, for various reasons this site has had a significant decline in users and activity compared to 2009 so the political discussions stand out more.

Second, the US has become more divided since 2009 and Trump is an incredibly polarizing figure who creates a ton of controversy and controversy creates discussion.