Originally Posted by AmeliaG

You are right that some people on this forum seem to think anyone not parroting some un-nuanced news story of the week is clearly some sort of troll.

But ... Realistically, Bladewire is right that, with the relentless political posting, it seems like this forum has a bunch of fake nicks or bought nicks or real people who are paid to post politics with no real interaction or conversation.

Unlike a lot of the political posters, Bladewire does sometimes post about other things and has work experience in this industry. I wish he posted politics less and more of what he used to, but [bold]it is very provoking to be constantly slapped with thread titles a person vehemently disagrees with[/bold] and most of the real people on here would post on other topics, if every main page load were not buckets of topics where at least half enrage them.

And the hijacking of non-political threads is definitely half of the problem.

I (and A LOT of other people who work in this industry) would just like to occasionally have conversations which are not basically the same boring non-interactive political shouting over and over again.