View Poll Results: Should Political Posts be allowed on OptiBoard?

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  • No longer allow political posts on OptiBoard

    50 42.74%
  • Allow political posts in one forum for members in publicly joinable group.

    53 45.30%
  • Allow political posts in one forum and require an OptiBoard subscription, i.e., Pay to Play.

    14 11.97%
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Thread: Political Posts - Should they go or should they stay?

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    The bottom line (as I see it) boils down to two facts:

    1. Vitriol isn't completely ingorable by any user. It demands user effort to scan through, discard, and generally avoid. Even the thickest skinned user has to make a cognitive effort to sort the useful from the emotional, attention-sucking tirades. Regardless of what one thinks of the merits of political discourse, permitting these high weeds means makes Optiboard less attractive for professionals to use for professional purposes.

    2. Moderators have finite resources of time, attention, and morale. If forum discourse is offputting to a substantial plurality of users, it's that much more draining on moderators who can't ignore it. This makes their forum experience more negative, accellerating turnover, and the forum is worse off.

    It would be wise to keep the board a fun experience to moderate rather than a toxic one. User satisfaction will follow suit well enough.

    Having said that, I voted for option 3...if someone really wants to rant politics here, then why not take their money and let them do it in folders unseen by anyone but the willing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hayde View Post
    Having said that, I voted for option 3...if someone really wants to rant politics here, then why not take their money and let them do it in folders unseen by anyone but the willing?
    When politics are involved in a thread I'm generally responding not only to the poster but more especially to the dozens if not hundreds of lurkers- who seem to flock to the thread when political policy disagreements arise. I especially take umbrage when information is distorted or wrong.

    We know who the regular progressive/conservative, liberal/right wing, democratic/republican leaning posters are but I want lurkers to see or better still be persuaded my opinion or rebuttal.

    If it was paid subscribers only I doubt I would post as much.

    To which I know many of you would say great!

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