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In my experience, all too many of the "interesting" posters on any given forum earn that title for being really funny to watch when they're tearing into someone. Which is great, unless you're the someone, or until the rest of the forum decides to start copying the posting habits of the local...

The forum staff have no obligation to allow a politics forum, and if people in the politics forum cannot behave and treat each other respectfully, they have no reason to allow it either. The goal of the forum at founding was a civil, respectful atmosphere for discussion, and as far as I know...

That is absolutely not a good idea. Allowing that sort of behavior will poison a forum, because hostile, abusive language invites a response in kind. It can and likely will set a tone for the entire forum, and eventually once it sets in enough it'll stop being about politics and start being...

I'm not saying they would only be the suckups, I'm saying that when tensions flare up, they would be seen as suckups, even if selected by the userbase, since the more hostile parties are also usually in the minority they would be unlikely to get someone they trust selected. So the intended...

I'm not sure that would work out, at least not in the traditional meaning of the term where the ombudsman is sort of an intermediary between staff and leadership. In my observation, a lot of the issues that have cropped up here, or that I've seen come up in analogous situations have been because...