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Originally Posted by California98Civic
Except that, as you know, this is not a general interest social media site. It's specifically a car modding forum. I don't bother myself with the Lounge, so I don't know alot about how stuff plays out there. But, to me, politicized public health policy (especially politicians' mask mandate decisions) is a divisive distraction from the purpose of the forum. The more members engage in unrelated divisive political debates the more difficult it will be to rebuild membership around the core skills and interests the EM site is for. This not a free speech site. It's a membership community with which we freely agreed to limit our speech in order to focus on a shared set of interest. Put another way, it is a free association site with rules about staying reasonably on topic, and not an anything goes free speech site. Anyway, that's the way I see it. I don't need people to agree with me. I can ignore threads and get along anyhow. Cheers, james
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People that leave because of stuff they can't handle in THE LOUNGE are snowflakes. There's a reason there's a lounge, and it's to talk about off topic things with other members here that we've established relationships with. Nobody forces anyone to read something, so that excuse is lame.
A handful of people leaving because they can't handle the discourse isn't the reason for the overall decline in participation.
The topics have been thoroughly discussed. What is the chance that someone is going to bring up a topic that doesn't have several threads already discussing the subject? A site like this flourishes in the beginning when information was scarce on such topics. Now, when people in other forums discuss efficiency related topics, I simply link an old thread that is a good resource. No reason to have another discussion about it.