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Should we merge Trump threads ?
Poll ended at 12 Feb 2017, 6:05 pm
Yes 24%  24%  [ 6 ]
No 76%  76%  [ 19 ]
Total votes : 25

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30 Jan 2017, 2:13 pm

Dox47 wrote:
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Sometimes Trump topics are political/theoretical and some are news/current events or related to specific issues (eg. woman's forum.) Why would you want to blur the difference?


Because you know they're all going to turn into political slug-fests within two pages, so better to move them to the appropriate forum for that. You know that starting a Trump thread in the Women's forum is going to draw a lot of men into there, right? Something you always seem hot on avoiding?


I glanced through the Women's forum a couple of times. Not sure what the draw is for anyone, regardless of underwear-filler.



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30 Jan 2017, 2:22 pm

There are many flavors of opposition to, and support of, President Trump.

I don't know if Trump deliberately meant to bring previously "silent" people out. But his actions have had that effect.



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30 Jan 2017, 2:38 pm

adifferentname wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
androbot01 wrote:
Sometimes Trump topics are political/theoretical and some are news/current events or related to specific issues (eg. woman's forum.) Why would you want to blur the difference?


Because you know they're all going to turn into political slug-fests within two pages, so better to move them to the appropriate forum for that. You know that starting a Trump thread in the Women's forum is going to draw a lot of men into there, right? Something you always seem hot on avoiding?


I glanced through the Women's forum a couple of times. Not sure what the draw is for anyone, regardless of underwear-filler.


I've always found the Woman's section boring - too specific a subforum.

And I know they all devolve into slug-fests and that's why they should be kept separate. If there was just one thread what would be the point of participating - there would be no real topic.

kraftiekortie wrote:
There are many flavors of opposition to, and support of, President Trump.

True.



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31 Jan 2017, 1:56 pm

Keep as is.

I can not envision a "positive" Trump thread staying that way for very long


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