Proposal: Get political threads off the front page

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Acevil on 13 August 2017

I agree with the sentiment. Namely since I know user or two stopped coming here because of politics threads being the main highlight at times.

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monocle_layton on 13 August 2017

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monocle_layton said:
I've made this thread twice and have tried to make something else become popular on vgchartz :/

Both art and original music never carried on. It'd be nice if something else got traction on here

That's the thing, politics thread are popular because they users enjoy them, not only because they are on the front page. So I find this constant whining to be disgustingly selfish.

It may be popular, but is it hurting the website more than it helps?

If they won't ban politics, then at least restricting certain conversations wouldn't hurt. A new user doesn't want to see a left vs right war with 20 bans in one thread

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VGPolyglot on 13 August 2017

Ka-pi96 said:

Ryuu96 said:

Yeah it would be nice if topic activity was more spread out across the site, I have two relatively dead TV Show OT's as well (One way more than the other) but I think it's a good thing having the threads there, even if they're low activity for any possible new sign ups who are interested in XXX Thread.

It'd be good if we had Thread Pinning on the Buddy and all new sign ups have by default the Mod, Tutorial and Official Topic List Thread Pinned (Remove after) to promote them.

Forget new sign ups, I`m sure there`s plenty of existing users that would be interested in a XXX thread!

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VGPolyglot on 13 August 2017

Miguel_Zorro said:

VGPolyglot said:

I guess it's just that there's users on this site I like that I know are turned-off by it, and I don't want them to leave

There are people who you like you who are turned off by pretty much everything.

If somebody has been threatening to leave over something for two years and they still haven't, what's different now? Even if thy leave now, they're just the boy who cried wolf.

Anyways, pretty much all of the mods are fine with removing politics from the front page. But we don't have access to make that change ourselves. Personally, I navigate directly to the forums page when I visit VGChartz.

Hmm, possibly. Am I letting my emotions get to me? Maybe so.

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