Very quiet in here

It's not open discussion if you're putting lots of people on ignore.

And there won't be open and flowing discussion if posters are free to cripple the discussion with low level trolling, insults, off topic derailments, hate speech etc
It'll just be two sides on soap boxes.

What's wrong with putting people on ignore? I find it incredibly useful and it means I see a lot less abuse, bigotry and demented nonsense. The site would become even worse without it.

Surely if you hate the Trump thread this much, you'd stop posting in it, no?

What solution are you advocating?

It's not. You know you can't get it shut down so you're posting guff like this. If you don't like it, ignore it. I don't post in the trans threads and I don't have any interest in having them shut down for that or any other reason.

Define "fairness and objectivity" in this context please.

That the mods keep doing what they are doing, banning trolls, those who are being a dick, who engage in personal abuse, who attack the poster not the post, those spreading hate speech, not engaging in discussion just dumping links etc
I want to be able to engage with the forum content not have to put dozens of posters on ignore.

As opposed to the suggestion of a largely unmoderated forum where they would be free to post away and engage in all those tactics, and imo threads would quickly descend into a mess with very little actual discussion.

This does read more like annoyance over the fact that most posters can't stand Trump. You can't force people to like him or support him. I'd also say it's largely pretty sanitized given the extent of his conduct.

It isn't. It's just the pathetic "both sides" trope again.

There have been countless attempts by pro-Trump posters (who incidentally cause almost all of the problems) to shut down criticism of their idol. None of these have been entertained thankfully.

Why are you keeping an archive of images to dump? What is the point of that?

Yep entirely hands off descends into Twitter or 4chan tbh.

This can be annoying. It's not hard to simply ignore a commentator. I'd also add the constant "This ref is always biased against my team" nonsense. How many times you see a match on and supporters from both sides saying the same thing about the ref.

That rule is such BS, as are a lot of the rules, "like don't be a d1©k".

I reported a post attacking me a few days ago, citing numerous rules that it transgressed. I see posts get warned for nothing, like "uncivil" being the offense. I reported it, again, saying it was uncivil, which it was. Several times, in fact. I asked for an explanation if nothing was being done about it, could I please get an explanation as to why not.

Did I get a response? Ya, right! And the post is still there. Mods can use their own bias and interpretation of the rules.