Our constitutional crisis is already here

[Dill]

(10-03-2021, 09:37 AM)GMDino Wrote: On the first page (10/2/21 @ 8:29am) there are currently (under the "normal threads") 17 threads started by 8 different posters. On the second page it is 9 of 20 created by different posters.

Most have multiple pages of replies.

One or two regular posters have personal agendas against other posters and try to derail every one of their threads.  The other casual and semi-regular contributors get bored with it and stop posting at all because of the fighting while a few try to bring new topics or fresh information.

Discussions would be great if people cared enough to do that vs attacking the posters and adding nothing to conversation.  

Good points here. 

In a healthy forum, threads die because one side has refuted the other's arguments, or people tire of the topic and new ones pop up. Sometimes the thread discussion renews when its topic is back in the news. 

It's unhealthy though when some stop open discussion of topics by just jamming/diverting it with personal attacks, dismissing evidence without counter-evidence, declaring some political issues off limit, and the like.

If there is a "circle jerk" effect in this section, it would likely come from some posters trashing OPs they have not actually read.