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It's probably for the best.

I liked it as a source of news, and a place to rant. But ultimately there is not really anything achieved by it.
We should unite over games, and politics these days are about dividing.
 
It was getting pretty heated. I was thinking of taking another month long vacation from the forum. Probably for the best. Now I should figure out what game I should sink a lot of time into, Resident Evil 4(Wii), MGS5Phantom Pain(PS4), Ys8(PS4) or Zelda TP(WiiU).
 
EviLore said:
It was a source of major friction and drama within the community. It was attracting the wrong type of people to GAF, and pushing away the right type of people. It was a nightmare to moderate. It was frequently an embarrassment to be associated with.

It's gone.
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Good, thanks!
 
The Pleasure said:
You could have just gave the most active politics forum users the kray kray tag and kept them locked there unable to post in the other forums.
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This is just a good idea anyways.

like how the old joe Roagan board was

A place for the shit posters to go and not allowed to post in other places.
 
I like it spicy, so I really enjoyed it. Had some very pleasant discussions regarding different viewpoints. Good exchange of ideas and some hilarious posts.

But I totally understand if the mods decide that it's not what this site is about.
 
belmarduk said:
Well, that's certainly a dynamic resolution. Not locked framerate.
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One way the politics forum could work is if it was treated as a bulletin board. Where you could only post an article news piece. No comments are allowed. That way I could still catch up on that type of news with none of the drama.
 
Korranator said:
No Good ever comes from arguing about politics. People, will either never see the other side or just balantly refuse.
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On top of that it doesnt matter if you are right or left... you can already see that it is getting worse every year. So there is not even a point arguing about politics anymore.

i was literally facepalming myself each day when i read about politics nowdays. Doesnt matter if its Germany, US or any other country.

So at least my forehead will be less hurting now with the politics forum gone.
 
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I never understood why they created a Politics forum on a gaming website in the first place. Glad it's removed. If everyone participated in Politics on this site, everyone would end up being banned permanently. It's never good to mix politics in anything tbh. The few times I discussed it at work I regretted it deeply..
 
I didn't engage in the conversation all that much but it was nice to have to access to news that wasn't blatantly partisan. No harm in going back to ignoring current events I guess.
 
Sucks it came to this, but less politics in general is probably a good move for everybody. There's nothing really healthy about spending that much time in those kinds of discussions (I say with a bit of hypocrisy since I did frequent the politics section).

EviLore EviLore I am curious though, how this will effect things like the Jordan Peterson Podcast thread, are we still allowed to discuss current events in a thread about a podcast that references said events? Or are we strictly never to have these sorts of discussions in any context going forward?
 
EviLore said:
It was a source of major friction and drama within the community. It was attracting the wrong type of people to GAF, and pushing away the right type of people. It was a nightmare to moderate. It was frequently an embarrassment to be associated with.

It's gone.
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literally took out my window out in the world. lol. now how am i going to get my news, and shit post at the same time?????? HUH!?
 
Very sad.

It was always a fun source to see what was going on in the states. It's where I kept up to date on Chauvin trial, election, etc.

Oh well
 
VFXVeteran said:
I never understood why they created a Politics forum on a gaming website in the first place. Glad it's removed. If everyone participated in Politics on this site, everyone would end up being banned permanently. It's never good to mix politics in anything tbh. The few times I discussed it at work I regretted it deeply..
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It certainly didn't happen in a vacuum. Politics is now intwined with almost everything from video games to football.
 
kunonabi said:
I didn't engage in the conversation all that much but it was nice to have to access to news that wasn't blatantly partisan. No harm in going back to ignoring current events I guess.
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I'll agree that it was nice to have access to news that wasn't blatantly left partisan, but let's be real here, the majority of users on the politics section had a right-leaning bias. It became less and less impartial over time, felt a bit like an over-correction to me.
 
Good riddance, I say. It was mostly a place full of flame wars and strawmen. Very little discussion of the topics themselves took place.

If there is a topic worthy of discussion then it will be nice to be able to go into it without that combinative framing.
 
I guess I missed most of the drama because I wasn't even clicking on most of the threads lately.

Too bad my only other option for message boards is the mma site sherdog. Their politics section is toxic AF. If anyone thinks it was too heated in our politics section - that board has the most vile, hateful group of posters who legit hate each other. And it goes mostly unmoderated. It's literally called "The War Room".
 
Maiden Voyage said:
You have a whole 5 posts on this website
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Yep, I'm not an active contributor because English isn't my first language and I feel like I can't express myself as well as I should, but I liked lurking at a mostly US political forum that, on one hand, didn't ban conservative opinions right away and, on the other hand, recently did a good job of getting rid of the craziest righ-wing conspiracy theories. I guess it became either too difficult for the owners to be associated with the mostly right wing opinions expressed on it or the moderating (which was very good) became too much of a chore. A loss, really.
 
I'm more and more convinced of the position Robert Talisse takes in his book Overdoing Democracy that we need spaces that aren't overtly politicized because politics doesnt exhaust meaning. In the latter parts of a recent episode of The Weeds podcast titled "the politics of cultural criticism" the guest (a movie critic at The Washington Post) makes a similar point about how a facile kind of political criticism flattens distinctions and misses what is actually interesting about media. Forums are both a reflection of and cause of this turn in journalism and I think a lot,of people want to get away from it even though they have trouble looking away from the car crash nature of it. It was kind of contained in a sub forum but not really with how partisan coded different forums become as a result of it.
 
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