As a 'normal person' what do you think of Current Affairs/IMHO

Thats part of a much wider internet phenomenon of enforcing groupthink

It is what it is, and that's a shame. But nobody forces me to look at it, so I don't give it a lot of thought. Quarantining the shite keeps After Hours cleaner than it might otherwise be.

Tbh, this post reads like it was written by an angry middled aged crank....... dude.

It's a disaster. It is, on the face of it, the main place on the site to discuss current affairs. It's not some overflow for castoffs from other fora.

But it is horrendously under-moderated, and posters get away with far much for far far too long before they get banned.

Admin Beasty managed to remove the “Big 10” in the McMurphy Affair. That was one, heavily, pro-Sinn Fein user using multiple accounts to attack the government and defend SF.

Since then a few dormant accounts, suddenly, activated and others setup to fill the void but it was still Trojan work on the part of the mods here to uncover what was going on.

Well one particular "dude" has been giving them a run for their money in the sock puppet account stakes.

The biggest troll on the board is currently posting in this thread.

A place for cast offs that shouldn't be allowed to interact with other people is exactly what it is though, and by design. It was created several years to late to be that. The tenor of discussion had already changed on AH by the time it was created. Personally I don't the idea of quarantining a community actually works though. If a section of clowns are allowed to exist on a site they will naturally bleed over to the rest of it.

I get what you mean, aitmDoF, but, for me, it’s about keeping all the nasty stuff like the anti-Ukrainian, anti-immigrant, anti-trans, racism, misogyny and all the stuff that, I would think, doesn't “belong” in AH over in another place.

If these things must be discussed then, again, for me, it should be done in CA and not somewhere designed for more of a laugh.

There very little anti any of the stuff you said. It’s mostly anti governmental stupidity that comes across in those threads. The racism, anti this that and the other accusations are just thrown out to stifle criticism of government policy.

There's a hell of a lot of people on here who really can't handle someone having a differing opinion. It's a very bad reflection on them as a person.