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SomeUsername529 posted...

That's what makes this funny. Like who the hell is even on this site that's getting scared away from posting by the hot political takes of a bunch of 40 year-old weirdos that haven't just migrated to reddit or whatever?

I think the idea is to make sure that anyone looking to come talk about games isn't put off by trolling or controversial topics and discouraged from joining the community, with political arguments being a significant part of that, but what happens on social boards also does nothing to affect that because social boards aren't going to be showing up for people searching for game discussions. Maybe the theory is that by trying to contain it to one board, that will free up moderation resources to clean up system/game boards that are more likely to be, but I don't know that a blanket ban on a certain topic (which means every instance of that topic on non-CE boards will need moderator attention) is actually going to help in that regard.

Personally, though, I'd be more put off by the aggressive ads than by any off-topic discussion or trolling that might be happening on the game board I was looking at. This site is honestly half the reason I use uBlock, and my understanding is that it's only gotten worse in the years since I swore off browsing it unprotected.