John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:20 am
Username Taken wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 4:35 am
So, what's the solution here?
What if we were to ban discussion of US politics?
Discussion of US politics starts arguments and ill feeling among members. Deters others from joining the discussion, creates cliques and grudges. It doesn't change anything on the ground in the US. So, what's the point?
Hey, @General Mackevili, what if we were to put US political threads into a new hidden forum where people could opt in and fight it out, while the rest of us could just ignore the divisiveness?
The forum was set up by Americans and has always had a focus on the USA. I didn't notice any mods complaining when Trump won, censoring bad news about the upcoming disaster or hiding it seems rather disingenuous.
This has been discussed on here before, and it's not to 'hide' anything, it would really just be for people who have no interest in US politics to be able to mute/block having to see it. I generally agree with the stance of, 'if you don't want to read something, simply don't,' but since this is a site clearly focused on CAMBODIA, I can imagine that some would be thankful to have the option to not see it.
And I know you're trying to say that you believe the reason US politics are so regularly discussed on here is because I'm American, but that's obviously not why, lol. Do you think that you, being Irish, would have started this forum and it would have been all about Irish politics? Haha, no way, it's because US politics are the most widely talked about international politics for Westerners, but I think you already knew that. Heck, it's funny, because I just did a forum search for topics started by you with the name of US presidents since CEO was created in the title, VS a search for topics started by you with the names of UK Prime Ministers/Ireland Prime Ministers (Taoiseach?) since CEO was created in the title, and...... guess what?? Well, here are the results, and it looks like you've started SIX topics about US presidents, VS ZERO topics about Irish/UK PMs, lol:
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search.php?keywords=may+johnson+truss+s ... mit=Search
search.php?keywords=trump+biden+obama&t ... mit=Search
So no, numerous topics about Trump/US politics don't have anything to do with me being American and everything to do with general conversations among Westerners around the globe, duh. And I don't think any of the moderators, nor I, would try to 'hide' anything related to Trump because it paints him in a bad light or whatever you're suggesting.
It's also interesting to see how many times you've mentioned Trump in posts (posts/replies as opposed to starting a new topic) since 2016. You've mentioned Trump at least 434 tiimes on CEO!!! Wow, are you sure you're not Irish-American?! My point is that you yourself have mentioned Trump hundreds of times on here (and correct me if I'm wrong, but each and every time it was anti-Trump, no?), and clearly we've never attempted to stop you from making negative posts about Trump.
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Anywho, I give literally no fucks about anti-Trump posts/opinions, and I personally would allow topics about anything and everything, but I think it's a valid complaint by some members who would love to see a way to 'mute/hide' topics about Trump since they mainly come here to chat about Cambodia, especially because unlike a lot of other unrelated to Cambodia topics, most adults can join in if they find interesting or scroll past if they don't without much sweat. But since this is a community and everyone in a community has to be willing to make a few compromises here and there, I think it might be beneficial to us all for members to have an option to opt-in or opt-out of section of the forum where more international politics/culture war hot topics could be discussed. And ideally it would be setup in a way where everyone can just opt-in or opt-out themselves without the process of requesting access.