The reason that people ask for the banning of political topics is because they are inherently contentious. Banning it means that people will fight about religion, which we would then have to ban as well. Then the big fights would be over aircraft manufacturers, so that would have to go also. The members would then have tiffs over American vs. European football, eating meat, automobile manufacturing, World War II, cats vs. dogs and chess, so they'd have to go too. At that point, it just might be time to close down General Topics.
You cannot prevent people from fighting with one another, and yet at this time there are very few political topics on the forum. So we come back to the real problem being topic spamming. Creating yet another sub-forum does not resolve that issue.
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