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Originally Posted by mikeod
IIRC, the demise of the political forum was caused by two things. One, the mods were inundated with complaints from participants who felt they were subjected to personal attacks by other posters. As a result, the mods were forced to spend too many hours devoted to only one aspect of TOTV.
Second, some of the vitriol from the political forum was spilling over into the main board. Personal attacks increased which caused more work for the volunteer mods.
As is common, a few malcontents managed to force closure of something others enjoyed.
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It was a very very very very small number of recalcitrant and all they had to do was throw them off the forum.
Everyone refers to [it] as the political forum, but there is another way to express it. Some refer to it as current events and to me it is fresh information that can be dissected and discussed for people's views etc. I am how much can you say about dog poop threads, foodie fads formula's etc . I mean they all have been beat to death. You can actually see some posters desperate to inject some freshness into the forum struggling with topics