@roger,
roger wrote:
I was talking about so many topics outside of politics. Maybe a decade ago.
Ah — oh yes. No, on that I agree.
There used to be much more of a community, which revolved around many topics that had nought to do with politics. Most of those people were already gone by the time I returned to A2K four or five years ago — the largest exodus seems to have taken a place a few years before that.
The FB group was created in 2015, I guess that was some time after the worst of the hemorrhaging. Though more people have gone since as well, of course. Which the Politics All The Time character of discussions here, and the accompanying unpleasantness, probably has a lot to do with. And the moderation controversies that inevitably ensue — some people leaving because they think moderation isn't strict enough, others because it's too strict (mostly liberals resp conservatives).
It's a shame because there's so much more to life than politics, and politics brings out the worst on a forum. I've tried starting a few non-political topics and they got some nice replies, but fizzle out fairly quickly while the political threads go on forever.
