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Apparently I may be a minority of 1 because I don't see any huge problems with this board that don't already exist in spades in the real world. The Politics forum has been dieing a slow death ever since I started regularly reading it, and I expect that it's been dieing that death ever since it started. It's more a commentary of human nature that those who yell the loudest get the most attention than a failing of the mods or that forum in general. At some point new folks will come along that will be willing to take the bait that both dksuddeth and willravel offer up on a daily basis and run with it. In my opinion, all that's needed to inject more "life" (for lack of a better term) in to Politics is a few rookies willing to stand by their points of view - or a few of "those that have gone before", like Ustwo, to come back to at least inject a sense of humor into some of the topics. I told someone the other day that the Politics board has transformed from a circus into gladiator games, and I can only take so much of that. All that said, I think that presently we're in one of those 4-6 week periods where everyone backs off for a bit and then jumps back in. There was a lot of energy expended before and in the few weeks after the mid-terms, and I expect we'll see it start to ramp up again as soon as frontrunners start to emerge nationally.
Personally, I see the C:A board as a neutral, but I think that it should be a completely separate neutral. I really don't want to be a part of it, and I think that it's a waste of my time, but if you all want to have a never-ending beauty contest, have at it. I would just ask that we keep the posts about it here to an absolute minimum. Hal, perhaps a closed sticky thread somewhere to let folks know it's there? Otherwise, I'll just keep not reading threads that mention it, which I know is my responsibility anyway.
Otherwise, TFP isn't broken, with the possible exception of photos being stolen out of Exhibition and posted elsewhere. Exactly what are we trying to fix?
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