Separate Datalounge Forum For Politics?

That was done years ago and now seems to be defunct.

What do you expect, OP, for a website that costs less than a cup of coffee a month?

Being exposed to a wide mix of subjects makes it interesting.

Is anyone holding a gun to your head and forcing you to read any of the political threads, OP?

Simply pass over them, if you have no desire to read them.

Decades ago when I discovered Datalounge there were two categories, Gossip and Politics, and there was a strictly enforced total ban on posting about soap operas!

Mixing topics is literal violence!

Can we send you reparations, OP?

Just skip over the topics you don't like.

Yes, there should be. And the person who starts a thread should be able to kick out posters who extraneously inject politics into non-political threads.

“THEATRE GOSSIP #6969 Let’s talk about Sondheim!”

R1: “but MAGA”

OP: 🥾R1 “bye bitch”

I like logging on and seeing different topics- politics, art, science, sex, wine, literature, history, film, thoughts and feelings.

It's getting ridiculous, it's all Trump, tr4nnies, Gaza. Rinse and repeat. I go to DL to escape those topics.

I don't want to tell people what to talk about but just like OP, I would like to have the option of not seeing that shit on my timeline. Shame the Ignore button maxes at a certain number of blocked threads, it's pretty much useless given just how many Trump threads there are.

Maybe we don’t need separate pages. But let OPs tag threads as “Not Politics” so we can filter for what we want to see when we want to see it.

Did you know you can just scroll past and not read/engage in a thread you're not intetested in? That's a basic function on all social media sites now. Is there a teenager in your life who can show/explain to you this concept and function?

R12, I don’t want to see it in the first place. Any teenager in my life would be using a platform that would let them avoid seeing it in the first place. Go talk to somebody younger than 70. You will understand this soon.

Fucking geriatric

No. Fuck off, Snowflake.

Unfortunately I think that cunt Trump has just permeated everything and everyone. He’s like an especially aggressive variant of Covid 19.

I tried to say this right after inauguration with the overload of Trump threads.

R14, take your meds Grandma

R13 - if anyone sounds geriatric in this thread, babylove, it's you. My god, it's a discussion forum and you get to open what you want to see and ignore what you don't. No one needs to cater to your petulant desire to block from your delicate, sensitive vision the topics that you don't want to see. Just fucking scroll past, you dumb turd.

[quote]Shame the Ignore button maxes at a certain number of blocked threads, it's pretty much useless given just how many Trump threads there are.

I didn't know that. I blocked a bunch of politics threads after the election. I don't block many threads now, except ones that have to do with Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. I don't know if it's one person or several, but they are annoying AF

Great Idea OP. That will leave much more room for your important priorities.

R18. Wow, you're so well spoken...said no one, ever.

So tender to the touch

topic flairs (relationships, gossip, politics) that can be filtered out would help. Don't know why DL doesn't have it.

Talk about trolling.

I’ve always suspected Muriel changed the format to keep people on the site longer R1. Now you have to scroll through everything rather than go straight to a subject you are looking for. Since the site does have ads, it might boost the numbers for “engagement”.

No matter what there’s always going to be threads you don’t want to dive into. Just scroll past them.

To be honest I think it does all of us some good not to have every single aspect of our lives fully customized to our own tastes and specifications. It’s important to be reminded that our are not the only interests opinions and passions out there, or the only ones that count

When I block threads they never stay blocked. They just pop up again after awhile?

R27 Block individuals instead They stay blocked.

When someone posts a political thread, I block that individual. Yes, I will miss some great threads they may post as well, but at least when they keep posting new political threads, they won't show up in my feeds

No, but I propose a parallel Data Lounge for the Autism Troll.