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Originally Posted by Indydealmaker
If you had read the political forum when it was alive, you would have been exposed to some extremely vicious comments directed at individuals. It was not a productive forum and certainly not conducive to a "community" forum.
IMO you will find that most of those forums dedicated to discussions of religion and politics are nothing more than various posters preaching to the choir and feeding their own ego. It is a rare occurrence when you can change someone's mind on a forum.
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While much of what you say is true, keep in mind it was an opt-in forum. No one that was thin skinned or didn't want to discuss political issues, needed to be exposed to it. If one did not opt in the threads would not show up on their screen. In other political forums I have seen (I don't participate in any currently) it is often a no holds barred free for all. The mods tried to keep this one somewhat civil and it was taking all their time to monitor it. If it came back I would participate.