Today
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...postcount=1323
This gets brought up and bounced about every so often. That's for good reason though (imo), there's a serious problem with bias and no place on this forum for anybody politically in the center or conservative (basically half of the population in america for example). The posters that don't conform with the far left here are mobbed and abused with a seemingly endless leash. Also the politics mods themselves even join in. On top of that, members of 2+2 who are otherwise in good standing are sanctioned with temp bans, bans, and exile
There are a few different directions this could be taken but the current situation just seems terrible. You could open an additional politics section that didn't tolerate mobs of empty abuse from either political pov, or the mods themselves. I think that's the best route personally. There has been a far left community developed and I don't think that needs to removed or changed necessarily. It probably just needs to be renamed because calling it a politics section is not only misleading, it also sets up 2+2 customers for attacks from an abusive mob
I think 2+2 has something of unique value to it's users and as a business. The general demographic and size of the community make it a place to get intelligent discussion and the community is not so big that you get a chance to form an understanding of the posters themselves. Discussion and debate is probably the most effective way we can determine things like morality, philosophy, and policy. We need to hear what we don't know and we need to have our ideas and beliefs challenged. This is how you learn and form a strong pov. Echo chambers create paper thin arguments and enormous blind spots. I find the people that want to silence other points of view have the weakest arguments and are usually ideologically possessed. On 2p2 the politics section is full of people on the far left that think of themselves as progressive and open but in fact are extremely closed minded. This culture has been cultivated by moderation. It's not coincidence that the moderator quoted above has removed all other POV, almost half of america would fail his purity test. It's more than half but we are so far beyond reasonable here, it's not even a point that needs to be argued
The failing of political moderation in the past has been the allowance of content free posts hurling pure abuse. It only takes a handful of those posters to hijack threads. That's exactly what happened.