Just make bans more dynamic, instead of a general ban, make it possible that people get banned for the politics/Other platform discussions. A general ban leads only to an increase in fake accounts and at the same time you can make the bans harder for certain threads...

Ugh first time I said this was in 2007 =p.

To an extent I can see why this holds true. But this site isn't the only site that serves a multitude of peoples from many nations. I don't really mind the political threads as I can usually tell the tone of the argument from the heading itself. But there are some users who solely post political threads on this site. Why do to a gaming site and never talk about gaming? That makes no sense to me. But I'd never want to suppress anyone's opinion and it sounds like that's what I'm trying to infer. There's nothing I hate more than when I go to a website and see "this comment has been moderated" in place of the actual comment posted. If you think it's so bad leave it up there for all to see. I never report anyone's comments on anything. No matter how reprehensible I think it is.

Best thing is to call out posters for low quality sources like second hand opinion pieces like Washington Post or punditry like AlexJones. Best practice is to use primary sources as much as possible and distinguish fact from pure opinion.

Elon Musk agrees:

Reading the source material is better than reading other people's opinions about the source material https://t.co/HKIYKbdb3g

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 30, 2017

One could consider deleting posts for using specific incendiary phrases like libtard, fascist, moron, Hitler-comparisons, idiot, commie etc. These terms never add meaningfully to any conversation and it would pacify the political threads.

As I said, some people are everywhere doing nothing but spew their political bias. As long as the conversation is civil, on topic and not "hit and run" tactics, I don't really have issue with them.

The logic is, that some people can't have civil discussion on certain topics, while they can on others. I'm more frequent in gaming and Nintendo discussions, and see some people having harder time having a mature discussion in Nintendo area, that they do on gaming. Same goes for political views. And no doubt the situation isn't any different in different topics.

Technically I could agree with some of your examples, but I definately wouldn't go on to ban actual political views, like faschism or national socialism any more than chauvinism or feminism. 

I agree, it's a gaming site not a political one. And with the current tension going on in the political world it's best to set it aside. 

There's way more right-wingers here than leftists. There are many centrists, But people like me are a minority.

Wait, so people like me would get banned merely for having an opinion different from the norm? Being a communist/anarchist, I would surely be one of the targeted people, even if it is supposed to against the far-right.

I agreed that there needs to be a serious effort to combat "alternative facts" as this stuff goes above just being difference of opinion and can literally cause damaging misinformation to many things. I only worried that doing it by "shaming someone into submission" can often have the reverse effect and make someone just double down on what they think out of spite or hatred as a result of it and possibly never open up to reasoning, instead using it to say "look at how all these bad people attacked me for yada yada yada" and group them all up like that which can also fuel others who believe them.

Edit: I've edited this comment to rewrite it as to more accurately portray what I meant to say at the time, as the original was poorly worded. 

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