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That's not my decision - forum policy is up to Jan and Ian (in consultation with the moderators) to decide what we will and won't allow. As I mentioned, at least 95% of all political discussion currently ends in personal attacks and threads being closed or deleted.

Isn't that what happens here? :p The point is that not everyone has made up their mind and there is always room for debate. Our politicians spend most of their time disagreeing with each other and debating in parliament, I think it's only fair that the public get to disagree with each other...

http://bizq.com.au/ ... although you can't sign up right now because there is a spam-bot problem (the same spam-bots which have been targeting Somersoft), and I haven't had a chance to rewrite my anti-spam-bot tools that we use here on Somersoft to work with that forum software. It is high on my...

This is exactly the problem ... some topics (especially politics, religion) are very emotive and some people are completely unable to separate personal attacks from meaningful discussion. If there were no (or few) personal attacks, we wouldn't be having this discussion and politics would not be...

Just to be a bit more specific here - we once had a policy of "no politics" (along with the "no religion" and several other taboo topics) here on Somersoft because 95% of the threads on those topics end up getting closed or deleted and cause a huge amount of work for the moderators when the...

Not sure what you mean by "hits"? Are you referring to traffic or something else?

Given our policy here on Somersoft of aiming to keep discussion non-political (which is why political threads frequently get closed or deleted) ... I'm wondering if there is any interest in me starting up a separate discussion forum website for discussion of the economics and politics of...