"Popularity"?

Personally, I hate politics. Always have. I only get involved because I have to (voting, etc), and because I want to know what other people are thinking. Usually it's wrong-headed ("you will not replace us!"), but sometimes I learn something important. I wish everything would work as it should, that senators aren't in the pockets of big donors, and such like that. But it doesn't. So I have to pay attention.

I think separating politics won't really help much. On TMF, the AF board was mostly about politics. We also discussed cooking/recipes, philosophy (especially benjd25), history, science...but a lot of politics. The cool thing is that we had a diversity of people. Some theists, mostly atheists, a few gay persons, right wing, left wing...everyone was welcome as long as they kept it civil. If I may be a bit arrogant, we were the smart PA board. Lots of meaty discussions.

If we mostly ban other topics, this board will die. Posts like "yep, there's still no reason to believe there's a god" will get really boring really fast.

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