Add Democrat-only and Republican-only forums? (controversial, Libertarians, percentage, website)
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I'm thinking about adding these subforums. They would still be public but only party's supporters would be allowed to comment. Any comments or suggestions?
One thing I think would be useful is seeing political leanings on our usernames. Give posters the option to self identify with shades of Blue to Red, White for centrists, Black for anarchists.
Do you think you are contributing to the human condition by adding these political forums to City-Data?
I see other people like me entered the city-data ecosystem while researching a new home, only to get sucked into this "id" based ongoing argument.
My request (OK, you are laughing your guts out), deprecate and then remove all the political forums.
Maybe less advertising revenue, but you might sleep better at night.
Actually, I think that having a place for such discussions is a positive. Twitter is terrible for discussions, Reddit is awful also. We always like to see higher quality posts of course. Many users come to the site directly to the forums and some of them don't even know there is a whole site...
Administrator, I like the idea this Politics and Controversies forum is a hot mess not much better than you gossip newsstand column at your grocery store newsstand. I'm thinking National Enquirer quality. I selectively scroll through and select about 2% of these threads to even bother to read.
I'm thinking about adding these subforums. They would still be public but only party's supporters would be allowed to comment. Any comments or suggestions?
I was on a message board several years ago that essentially did that. It was not moderated, and the republicans were so abusive that the democrats quit posting.
Two months later there were a half dozen posts a week talking about the weather and such. It became the most boring place on earth, and disappeared in less than six months.
Actually, I think that having a place for such discussions is a positive. Twitter is terrible for discussions, Reddit is awful also. We always like to see higher quality posts of course. Many users come to the site directly to the forums and some of them don't even know there is a whole site...
So you are going to get into the business of profiling and labeling all of the posters here in this forum with partisan labels, according to whatever partisan criteria seems good to you.
You do not want to do this.
I rarely agree with you, but I agree on this. The thought that the forum mods will assign partisan labels on every poster and moderate accordingly is troubling.
Actually, I think that having a place for such discussions is a positive. Twitter is terrible for discussions, Reddit is awful also. We always like to see higher quality posts of course. Many users come to the site directly to the forums and some of them don't even know there is a whole site...
It could go either way.
This area should remain the same.
I'm OK with giving people the option to post issues in those sub-forums and moderate trolling behavior.
I would be against moving threads from here into those sub-forums just because a moderator feels like it, or because someone gets "offended"..
It would be interesting if not for the metrics alone.
It is well known that CD favors republicans and topics on the right.
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