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The issue at hand is keeping the site running.

I'm happy to pay for that and have done, there's issues aplenty regarding how things are running in different parts of the site but you can't remedy them if the site isn't here to begin with.

There's also people from this site posting crap on reddit lambasting the owners and bemoaning the general situation here.

You know who you are and it's not good enough. Cop the fvck on ffs.

I’d actually be ok if they site ended up filtering out all the immature adults who are incapable of discussing topics in good faith and retained those with a capacity for some self reflection. I understand it’s less financially viable but I’d spend more if it was a site with common sense posters who can recalibrate their emotions responsibly.

I generally stay away from CA and the more demented threads full of children bickering. Maybe there could be specific threads that are members only where there are more rigid standards of discussion or debate. In particular it would have members who have a better understanding of each other so if a person asks a question that could annoy some , like , for example , “is Trump not just a symptom of a wider divide in politics and how disillusioned people are in general” it’s not automatically met with derision and discussed in its merits. Less “you are right/left , Putin apologist stuff” and if there are people obviously on wind up they are out.

A paid community can agree on harsher rules and if the site doesn’t actually rely as much on advertising, then the owners will have to take on board members consensus.

No doubt the people who regularly get banned or infractions will disagree. Do these people ever consider that they are their own problem ? People who seem to have a lot of drama in their lives or fall foul of infractions quite often think they are in the right and victims of other people. I find a lot of them simply don’t see how obnoxious they are at times and even if/when they are correct on something, their behavior is what gets them in trouble.

It's feedback but as someone that's been involved in voluntary organisations and fundraising the reality is a lot of people are happy to take anything that's free and will not contribute because they don't have to. In fact a lot of people won't contribute unless there is a social pressure to, which is why face to face fundraising is a lot more effective than online or virtual.

It's a tale as old as time and is the usual reason clubs, societies and charities fail.

And it will be the reason if this drive fails too.

Certain subs do. Like r/ireland

While I'm confused on what the moderation changes have been, Current Affairs and Politics are two of my main interests on the site.

I don't understand why you think they should be removed. Don't use them if you don't like them?

Anyway, this is really off topic and should belong in a feedback thread imo.