05-03-2013, 05:46 PM
OWC Larry wrote: That said - the 'political' forum side currently has no sponsor, use is limited to a single digit percentage... and because people can't seem to help themselves but devolve conversations into personal pot shots and even direct attacks - it also has a very disproportionate percentage of Mod time spent on it. With lots of other forums more appropriate for that kind of discourse, going to see a poll on it's future. Certainly it's going to need a sponsor for it to continue imho.
Political side solutions:
- Ban everyone who makes things personal
- Put a banner ad in every post to increase revenue
- Put interstitials in to increase revenue, and increase time between posting
- Limit all posts on that side to 140 characters. Oh, wait, just make it a twitter feed
- Restrict posting to emoticons only
Lots of potential options. If you pick the first one, eventually there may be no one left