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Originally Posted by roachboy
mea culpa, i guess: but the fact is, so far as i am concerned, that the irritant is the lowering of the quality of discussion and the solution is to raise the quality of the posts.
so if the collective wants to change something about the politics forum, perhaps it could start with some kind of pressure being exerted to raise the intellectual quality of the posts. once that started, i think you would find the flaming to stop---there'd be no need for it---no place for it---because conversations could actually happen.
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there is precedence for this.
in the past, people were concerned about "great tits!" or "nice ass!" posts in the titty board to maintain access. as well as similar one-liners in other areas to drive up post counts and gain further access.
I don't know how analogous some of the reasons are to those earlier times, but this was definately a concern and was discussed for a while when the board went to tiered access.