Rather than making an entire new board, setting up an option in people's accounts so they can select which subjects they do or don't want to look at. Just a set of check boxes identical the Topic Selections, and maybe throw in a new topic of "NSSP" so people who don't want to use the journal option can be screened out by those of us who don't generally enjoy them. If we're to start a whole new board, I'd rather it was for "Writing", I doubt I'd post on that but I've heard a lot of people request it and it's much more appropriate to this site and IMHO long overdue, it might even bring in new people.
Of course, I was positing something to hint broadly that people get so worked up about politics here that it can drown out other possible conversation topics

Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.

/Survey: If this place had a separate politics board like several other sites do, what would happen?
23/11/2011 10:53:33 PM
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Political Board = Chat Drama x 9000 *NM*
24/11/2011 12:13:58 AM
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I doubt that very much.
24/11/2011 01:17:07 AM
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Which is pretty much my point
24/11/2011 01:40:09 AM
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I remain unconvinced a few voices can drown out the rest in an internet environment.
25/11/2011 12:41:05 AM
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the problem with the chat drama is spilled over into everything else
28/11/2011 05:47:14 PM
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All the political crap would go there, like it does on those other sites.
24/11/2011 01:09:11 AM
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Perhaps some might feel more comfortable posting if it were separate?
24/11/2011 01:41:15 AM
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Probably the easiest solution is to have a filter instead, save the new board for a "Writers Board"
24/11/2011 06:47:33 AM
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Perhaps
24/11/2011 09:25:40 AM
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There are actually a number of simple and effective solutions if this really bugs people
24/11/2011 06:35:33 PM
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There is a reason we are seeing so much complaining about politics form certain people
28/11/2011 05:44:22 PM
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You're adorable. You're also pretty new to the site, as I recall.
29/11/2011 12:41:03 AM
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yes I was refering to you
29/11/2011 12:37:34 PM
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Then you should know there are fewer conservatives on the site now.
30/11/2011 03:41:10 AM
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That's arguably flawed reasoning, there's apparently considerably fewer posters overall now
30/11/2011 05:24:28 AM
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To a certain extent. But the site's left lost LiterateDog and Chorabliss.
30/11/2011 09:15:29 AM
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If people want to keep the place alive and interesting for themselves then they can do these things:
24/11/2011 08:51:11 AM
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The first is no option at all
24/11/2011 09:24:24 AM
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It wasn't aimed at you specifically.
24/11/2011 10:10:05 AM
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Writing past 3 AM is not going to lead to clear connections, sometimes
24/11/2011 10:22:34 AM
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Re: Writing past 3 AM is not going to lead to clear connections, sometimes
24/11/2011 11:15:31 PM
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there would be so little traffic on the community board that you could shut it down
28/11/2011 05:20:10 PM
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