That Trump thread is a joke (IMHO)

But how?

Do mods have to try and recruit Trmup fans to defend him?

Maybe you should take that up with the powers that be who enquired on the thread as to the "general consensus"?

How many people are even aware of the thread? Well, that can apply to either side of the discussion.

Noted that you have been unable to refute the basis for my statement as to the 'general consensus' with reference to the posts on this thread.
And I made no attempt to present it as a unanimous view.

And maybe the reason why they were driven out of the site or banned was because of their own poor behaviour, and inability to present their "differing deductions" without resort to trolling, bad faith arguments etc

Did that thought ever occur to you?

In fairness the vast majority of the posters are anti-Trump. I was thinking a high % of them due to the "Jerry Springer" posting style and the emotional attachment to the politics of another country

The issue is you pretending like the Trump supporters aren't the ones who are (your direct words):

Openly hostile, aggressive, condescending. Just really nasty, spiteful and itching for a fight, a bit like Trump

That perfectly sums up the kind of Trump supporter who pops onto the thread and in their opening line uses a phrase like "There are posters on the thread foaming at the mouth…"

This point has already been put to you and you have no comeback.

There's a reason so many of them fall foul of moderation and it's not because of the spin you try to put on it.

It's an example of moderation working validly to ban trolls.

The CA moderation was loosened after previous threads like this, with some criticism about CA moderation being too strict on things like 'uncivil' conduct.
And it wasn't the anti Trump brigade shouting for that.

An 'opinion' defending a rapist like Trump, downplaying his vile actions and denigrating his victim isn't something to be 'tolerated' - it is something to be rebutted, challenged and called out for the morally disgusting position that it is.

I only check in on the thread maybe once a week, I did 6 weeks ago for the first time in ages

So at best you throw a casual eye at a thread you appear to have little interest in.

Begs the question, why the Feedback thread?

Strange.

What exactly is a Trump supporter in your mind ?

You.

You wrote "Given the chance, I'd quite happily go down in history for having killed him", which I took to mean that you would kill him if you could since how else would you go down in history for having killed him? Through some kind of mass staged fakery where people thought you'd killed him but you hadn't?

Anyway glad to hear you're not actively considering violence, just contemplating your legacy.

“How do you suggest a thread of that size and scale is an echo chamber?”

Well considering we have 3 pages of back/forth here on how bloody difficult it is to actually make some point other than “Trump is Satan” - as a start it would be a small gesture to reverse my previous “ban” of two weeks for CA, a few weeks ago over my very “ON TOPIC” “REFERENCE” to the boards.ie policy of banning posters who questioned Joe Biden’s declining performance -I made the point very much within the topic at hand that was all about MAGA’s closing down of independent news and media -I made the point that closing down discussion is not limited to the “far right” or “MAGA”- it was a perfectly legitimate comment to make.

I got banned for it- my record on posting on Trumps performance stands as per my posts on that thread-I’m not a “fan” in fact -one such post was presented back to me in this thread by someone who can’t resist trying to get a rise out of me. But he’s still posting I see - funny that - there’s only so much bullsh1t a poster can take